Glass lifters

[Vinpetrol]

Anyone used excavator for lifting big windows ?
Mine are due on site in a weeks time and 2 of them weigh in at 400kg . I know I can hire the manual suckers from Brandon but it think 400kg might be a bit much to lift manually . I was thinking about hiring one that cranes use and using the duck but I can’t find anyone locally that hires them .

 

[Pedrod355]

@Vinpetrol Can you not de glaze windows to lighten them a bit? Myself & the mong fitted a patio dr @ 280kg by taking out glass first last wk.

 

[Lancs Lad]

@Vinpetrol Can you not de glaze windows to lighten them a bit? Myself & the mong fitted a patio dr @ 280kg by taking out glass first last wk.

That's brave ...most of the mongs I've worked with weren't to great with glass

 

[Giles]

Want to hire one with redundant suction

 

[Pedrod355]

That's brave ...most of the mongs I've worked with weren't to great with glass

Ha! Ur not wrong but had no option, He was well warned prior to lift

 

[V8Druid]

Want to hire one with redundant suction

absolutely .... you'd want plenty of over capacity .... did a job in Worcester with Russ a while ago with a big suction unit with about 100kgs cap. to spare .... was pretty hair raising hoisting these sodding great sheets of glass 70 ft in the air, to get 'em behind the scaffold and back down to about 50 ft ... long hand lines and stood well back .. me an' the radio were wellllllllll back out the way of the 400kgs lumps ... customer supplied the suction unit and I made sure the cups were surgically clean when I took the covers off 'em

 

[Vinpetrol]

@Vinpetrol Can you not de glaze windows to lighten them a bit? Myself & the mong fitted a patio dr @ 280kg by taking out glass first last wk.

I don’t think I can . Will call window co tomorrow

 

[Pedrod355]

I don’t think I can . Will call window co tomorrow

What brand/style of window are they?

 

[Vinpetrol]

What brand/style of window are they?

Nordan

 

[DaveDCB]

Get some proper lifting gear/company in , with a crane!
Glass gets very heavy/awkward! You can’t just thump it down when you want etc..

Glazing company I use has a dolly type machine thing, got to be really level ground but I don’t think even that will do 400kg!

 

[6feetdown]

I think as much as it would pain me I'd agree with Dave 1 wrong move and sounds like an expensive piece of glass, at least you'd put the responsibility on the the glazers / lifters

 

[Giles]

We’ve done both the subby route with hiab and suction lifter and the 10 guys couple of straps, suction cups manhandle it route but we’re lucky because loads of other subbies on site and everyone mucked in to get an awkward big window rd the back of a huge house we were working on

 

[Vinpetrol]

We’ve done both the subby route with hiab and suction lifter and the 10 guys couple of straps, suction cups manhandle it route but we’re lucky because loads of other subbies on site and everyone mucked in to get an awkward big window rd the back of a huge house we were working on

As much as I’d like to get specialist window co in that’s not happening . 1st reason is there are none here and 2nd I’m too tight .
We’ve fitted plenty of windows in houses and extensions over the years so it’ll only be the 2 big sliders that’ll be an issue but the house is a bungalow so all the windows are on the ground floor . It has a hard standing all the way around . If I had the option to use crane sucker attachment on the duck I would but I can’t get my hands on one . The big sliders come in a frame on a pallet on their own so I will lift them as near as possible then disassemble the pallet and use Giles method with a heap of bodies !

 

[kato512]

As much as I’d like to get specialist window co in that’s not happening . 1st reason is there are none here and 2nd I’m too tight .
We’ve fitted plenty of windows in houses and extensions over the years so it’ll only be the 2 big sliders that’ll be an issue but the house is a bungalow so all the windows are on the ground floor . It has a hard standing all the way around . If I had the option to use crane sucker attachment on the duck I would but I can’t get my hands on one . The big sliders come in a frame on a pallet on their own so I will lift them as near as possible then disassemble the pallet and use Giles method with a heap of bodies !

Do speedy or hss hire them? What about ggr group, I think they're in Glasgow though.

 

[Vinpetrol]

Do speedy or hss hire them? What about ggr group, I think they're in Glasgow though.

Yea none of them anywhere near me . 3.5 hours drive away .

 

[kato512]

Yea none of them anywhere near me . 3.5 hours drive away .

How brave are you? Seen this on homemade attachments on Facebook.

 

[DaveDCB]

I could see that attachment/ job being posted in the “oops” thread a fair few times

 

[V8Druid]

How brave are you? Seen this on homemade attachments on Facebook.

does the job ------- seen a lot worse ... on a duck it'd be pretty smooth, (by virtue of the operator - gotta be a smooth, cool hand Luke on a duck ) and Vin's had plenty of duck jockeying practise

 

[Vinpetrol]

Well they arrived today ! I got to say I’ve unloaded a lot of windows in my time but when it’s 24K of your own hard earned that’s bought them it’s amazing how much more careful you can be .
We had a wee bit of paint damage on the surface done during delivery but I think that’ll be dealt with from the supplier without any issues.
We have a plan for the big ones that we will tackle tomorrow . The pallet they are sitting on will be cut down and slot inside a frame outside of the opening then they will be gently slid and cajoled into place !
Pics tomorrow

 

[DaveDCB]

Just chuck it on the forks…
This was 4 m wide, 1.1mm high 17mm laminated.. horrible heavy thing!!! Balcony glass upstairs