Originally Posted by
Wogsterca
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
Double check that old boiler. I had an old coal fired boiler in the basement of a 1906 house I restored. The thing was huge! All cast iron. But it turned out to be built in sections, each section was about 8 inches thick as I recall. I unbolted the sections, and moved each section out with a handtruck. Really gave me a lot of space. I replaced it with a modern hot water boiler, about the size of a trash compactor.