Lifting a large BGE

Ohio Ed

I'm about to take delivery of my first large BGE tomorrow and I can't wait to try it out on all the fantastic recipies I've read about on this forum. I have a simple question , since I see where the weight of this egg is about 140 lbs how did yall lift it up to put it in the nest or later in the new table I want to build? I assume it can be taken apart?

The Naked Whiz

Ohio Ed,
Yes, you can take the lid off, and take the firebox and fire ring out to make the bottom lighter. I managed to get the bottom out of my table by myself by reaching in and grabbing the lower air vent, but my back doctor would have spanked me if he saw me do it. I think you can handle all the pieces yourself just to move them from one place to another. But setting it in something might require 2 people because of having to lean over the table or nest, etc.[p]TNW

ToyCollector

Ohio Ed,[p]I think the heaviest piece on it's own is the bottom with nothing in it (about 60 lbs. I think?)[p]I assembled the nest, put in the bottom, then the firebox, ring, grate, and did the band assembly and then added the lid which kept it all manageable.

Bob V

Ohio Ed,[p]There is an old saying called the Stagehand's Motto: "Don't lift what you can drag, don't drag what you can roll, don't roll what you can leave alone." Same applies with your Egg. I take mine apart as much as practical, then kinda roll it back and forth on the bottom edges, swaggering back and forth to where it needs to be. To lift it into something really takes two people, unless you've been working out a lot recently.[p]Bob V

RRP

Bob V, I like that motto! A couple years ago the stepping stone under my large BGE exploded before I realized the 3 green feet were also needed in my climate. I already had my large and small BGEs in the table I built. Faced with a lifting problem I remembered some old science class principles...the lever and the fulcrum. Using a block of wood and a common spade shovel I had my little wife hold up our 140# large BGE with little effort while I removed the broken stone, replaced it and positioned the feet before she effortlessly set it back down!

wdan

Ohio Ed,
My large BGE was completely assembled by my dealer. His able-bodied assistant seat-belted it into the back seat of my car. When I got it home, I wrestled with it until I got it onto my backyard patio. I spoke in a very high voice for a couple hours afterward, and I'm pretty sure that I can nolonger father anymore children. But all-in-all, I'm a better person for having had the experience...unfortunately, Tiny Tim songs aren't popular anymore. By the way; watch out for the bottom vent damper. I got a pretty good gash on my leg from it when I was in the process of having my voice changed.

captaincraigb

Ohio Ed, friends, beer, and promises of a meal should help.

StumpBaby

WDAN,[p]
There ain't nuttin like hoistin a heavy object to find out one of your kinfolks is not entirely honest too. When I was gettin my medium up into its stand..my cousin Billy "Wigs" Bouchardie.was helpin me.and little did I know that just before he came out to help..he'd been in the house pilferin foodstuffs from the pantry. He ain't the sharpest of us kinfolks..and soon I found out..what with the help of my heavy egg..what kinda pilferin fool he really was. [p]We was standing opposite each other..hands wrapped around that prized medium egg..and I tol Billy on the count of three..we'd each lift up our end..and just like I planned..on the count of three we both lifted that egg straight up..and just when it was hoverin over the stand there..Billy let out a hollah like you ain't never heard..and he done started to tremble like you read about...which got me to worryin bout that egg..so I looked under it ..over at Billy..thinkin I could get him to calm down a bit..I mean he was startin to sound a little bit like a sissy girl..and that's when I seen why Billy was so skeered..I think maybe he knew his stolen goods was makin a getaway..and he'd be found out before long..cause I seen it..there just under the edge of his shorts..a tiny wrinkled walnut..what woulda dropped all the way to the ground..completely exposin Billy for the nut pilferin fool he was..if'n it wasn't still attached to the second object he done pilfered.....why anyobody would want grammas ol wig is beyond me..but there it was clear as day..coddlin that danglin pilfered item like you read about.[p]I didn't say nuttin to Billy..for fear that we'd drop my egg before we done got it into its stand..but when we was finally done though..I walked around and was gonna ask him bout them stolen objects..when I done noticed that Billy musta done some real fast tuckin when I wasn't lookin..cause hard as I looked..I didn't see no more exposed stolen nut or traces of grammas pilfered hairy nut coddler. I sure was mad..on accounta I couldn't accuse Billy of nuttin if the proof wasn't danglin no more. I spent the rest of that day..askin Billy to help me move heavy things what really didn't need no movin at all..just so I could get that darned pilfered thing exposed again..and catch Billy with the danglin proof..but it never did no more tryin to escape..so I think maybe Billy done tucked it in a good hidin place..which truth be told..may have ruined the entire value of that stolen nut..and possibly..wrecked grammas hairy nut coddlin wig for good..[p]Ahh..the life of a Stump[p]StumpBaby