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Subject: [Shop-talk] lifting gas bottles
From: "john niolon" <jniolon@bham.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:29:13 -0600
John,

I use the big (5' tall) argon and oxygen bottles. Industrial sized !
they weigh around 200 #.

Normally it's just slide, tilt, stand up and roll on edge.  But, when my 
back is not working properly I either use a nylon sling and my engine hoist 
or the same sling and a chain fall in the garage.  Lift it up and drive out 
from under it.  My "welding cart" is big...5'long 30" wide ..three level. 
It holds my Millermatic 200, my Hobart Handler 100, my Lincoln ac/dc stick 
welder and the C25 gas bottle, plus all the other crap that ends up on the 
top.  It's on 6" casters and moves around nicely. I've even had to fab up a 
long ramp to roll the c25 bottle up that 6" instead of lifting it.

When you're old or your back isn't working... you improvise !

john



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