What is it, part 25 or 30 or …

[Old tool guy]

Anybody recognize this? I know what it is, just checking the knowledge base.

 

[whateg01]

Light duty version

 

[bcschief]

I think it might be for moving store shelving without disassembling. You would use multiple ones depending on the size of the unit.

 

[Old tool guy]

Light duty version

Wrong. Similar idea but very different purpose.

 

[whateg01]

Wrong. Similar idea but very different purpose.

Not for lifting a thing for moving?

 

[njride]

The brass color and wheels remind of pitbull sport bike stands.

 

[Old tool guy]

Not for lifting a thing for moving?

It is, but it has a specific purpose, whereas your picture is of a crude heavy duty pry bar. Not crudely made, but meant for rough use. My picture is a more refined tool.

 

[rust in the eye]

Clearly a lever. looks like a fancy johnson bar("crude heavy prybar") to me too. The interchangeable tool at the business end is interesting.
Similar devices are sometime used for lifting formula race cars, this appears too tall for that. I'm with bcschief.
"part 25 or 30" ??????????

 

[RTM]

Looks like the tool I use to move My Laguna bandsaw around. It has two fixed back wheels, mine becomes the front wheels.

 

[PCustoms]

It is, but it has a specific purpose, whereas your picture is of a crude heavy duty pry bar. Not crudely made, but meant for rough use. My picture is a more refined tool.

I know some millwrights who would like to give you a lesson in rough use....

So what special task is this magical device made for?

BTW the bearings/wheels look a little off...

 

[Old tool guy]

bcschief got it. I’m managing a series of projects for a large pharmacy chain, renovating some of the shelving and the checkout lanes, plus other stuff. Some of the shelving units are new, some are skated into new positions. You remove the bottom shelf and toe kick, get two or more of these bars, and it’s fairly simple to move 30-40 ft sections of shelving in one piece.

 

[PCustoms]

bcschief got it. I’m managing a series of projects for a large pharmacy chain, renovating some of the shelving and the checkout lanes, plus other stuff. Some of the shelving units are new, some are skated into new positions. You remove the bottom shelf and toe kick, get two or more of these bars, and it’s fairly simple to move 30-40 ft sections of shelving in one piece.

Yeah, that sounds way more refined than what the tool in post #2 is used for...

Must be special because "farmacy"

 

[whateg01]

I bet the tool in post 2 could do that too.

 

[Old tool guy]

I bet the tool in post 2 could do that too.

That one could move a locomotive, but it would scratch the paint on the shelving.

 

[5ubtle]

Wrong. Similar idea but very different purpose.

It is, but it has a specific purpose, whereas your picture is of a crude heavy duty pry bar. Not crudely made, but meant for rough use. My picture is a more refined tool.

 

[KnurledNut]

Anybody recognize this? I know what it is, just checking the knowledge base.

Who makes it?

 

[DAustin]

 

[Old tool guy]

Who makes it?

I’ll look next time i see it.

 

[bcschief]

Strangely I saw a video on the internet recently and that's the only way I knew what it was.

 

[mreisner]

It is, but it has a specific purpose, whereas your picture is of a crude heavy duty pry bar. Not crudely made, but meant for rough use. My picture is a more refined tool.

I've moved some pretty delicate machines with that like a Bridgeport mill and a South Bend Lathe.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Still don’t understand the 25 or 30 part of the question?

 

[Old tool guy]

Still don’t understand the 25 or 30 part of the question?

There are so many “what is it” threads.

 

[Old Man Roger]

AAAHHH!

 

[Old tool guy]

Update. Here are pics of skating a shelf unit, and closeups of the skated. They have 4 low profile casters that go under the feet. The pry bar thingie is used to lift the shelving enough to get the casters in place.

 

[finn]

Yeah, that sounds way more refined than what the tool in post #2 is used for...

Must be special because "farmacy"

Probably had to be FDA approved, including a five year clinical trial, to insure it didn’t cause birth defects among pregnant nuns.

 

[Wrench97]

Yeah, that sounds way more refined than what the tool in post #2 is used for...

Must be special because "farmacy"

Post #2 is what we called a Johnson bar we used it to get stuck forklifts out of trailers like when one rear steer wheel falls off the side of the dock plate......as the terminals got larger and everything turned into pallet loads then we had multiple forklifts at one location and just used another lift to get the stuck one out.

 

[PCustoms]

Update. Here are pics of skating a shelf unit, and closeups of the skated. They have 4 low profile casters that go under the feet. The pry bar thingie is used to lift the shelving enough to get the casters in place.

That's one hell of a refined furniture dolly

 

[Old tool guy]

That's one hell of a refined furniture dolly

Very heavy duty, considering they move 18-20’ long x 66” high loaded shelves. Hope my wife doesn’t see it, she is forever using those flat sliders to move furniture.

 

[Old tool guy]

I work with different contractors, different crews, some better than others. In post 24 you see a good contractor using a quality tool to relocate, or skate, shelving. Here is a pic of a different contractor who i give credit to for getting the job done, with less costly equipment.

 

[whateg01]

Looks like they could use one of these