How to move a big stone

[Mark Owens]

Hi everyone, I have an old stone butchers table left in the cellar. (It’s a Victorian house)

It’s about 180cm tall and about 10cm thick. Need to move it, it looks to be made of sandstone. Unfortunately it’s been bolted to the wall with some brackets and there’s some wiring behind it we need to get to.
Any suggestions on moving the table would be great thank you.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

1. Sell it to an antique dealer and let him deal with the problem

2. A large sledge hammer should reduce that to manageable pieces

3. Dynamite: suggested reading matter by Blaster Bates

 

[foxhole]

Hi everyone, I have an old stone butchers table left in the cellar. (It’s a Victorian house)

It’s about 180cm tall and about 10cm thick. Need to move it, it looks to be made of sandstone. Unfortunately it’s been bolted to the wall with some brackets and there’s some wiring behind it we need to get to.
Any suggestions on moving the table would be great thank you.

Remove brackets and let it fall over.

 

[Notch7]

It weighs about 400kg so you won’t be moving it much.

either break it up with a kango or you might be able slide it sideways with a bottle Jack if you can brace against something.

2 people could probably walk it by rocking it side to side - for safety it should have a timber brace to stop it falling. Do a risk assessment as there’s risk of serious injury. I’ve certainly moved heavier woodworking machines than that.

 

[magicmushroom666]

Thats going to be heavier than you expect, 400kg sounds believeable. I've been caught out before by a large sheet of steel, once it starts tipping all you can do is get out the way.