Originally Posted by
Thumpic
if it's a 100+ year old cellar; chains and hooks may already be there!.....

No hooks or chains, if there were I would just use them.... But the original coal fired boiler is there, a huge hunk of iron that weighs in around a ton or so, the reason it's still there is that it would have cost too much to have someone cut it apart with a torch and haul the pieces out of there in the 1950's when they switched to oil. The newest boiler is 5 years old, and is about the size of a 2 drawer filing cabinet cut in half, it's a high efficiency natural gas unit, hung on a wall. It's funny to see this tiny boiler that feeds into this massive cast iron manifold that is about 10 times it's size....
No chains or hooks, if there were I would just use the ones that are there