Well... we got them unloaded...

[kayakman]

but it wasn't easy...

Marco loaned me his engine hoist and his manpower to help me sling and lift the 1600 pound batteries off my trailer.

the guy at the ranch had pushed them pretty far up on my trailer to center the load over my wheels. Well that meant that I could not get my tractor to pick them up, so we had to get an engine hoist that is

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[kyrie1618]

I'd do it with a long strong pole and ten friends. Hook the battery to the pole put the pole on their shoulders. Unless there's no room for that.

Block and tackle? A sled, a rope, three friends. Rope the sled to a pulley, run a rope from a tree through the pulley and pull on the rope. Put wheels (and brakes) on the sled and yuo can probably do it with one friend.

Tell me how it goes, and if anybody's visiting from houston to you I'll carpool and help pull myself.

[kyrie1618]

Sedan litter chair! That's the word I was looking for. When royalty would travel in a chair hung from the middles of two long poles and many people would carry the poles and walk places. You could carry the batteries in a sedan litter chair.

-Or-

Rickshaw. Put the battery in a special wheelbarrow meant to be driven by three people at once.

I don't have 6 stong nubian men

[kayakman]

to lift and pistion these beasts...

and they weigh 350 pounds...

right now they are still sitting in my driveway, and I guess I'll have to figure out SOMETHING to do with them soon...

I am also considering putting them in my bus for a solar rig I want to locate on the roof rack of that.

The bus could handle the weight, but I would for SURE have to fabricate some sort of welded steel cage so if we ever had an accident they would'nt break loose and squash everyone one...

FOR SURE