Lifting quincy QT-54 compressor

[sparky7]

Just bought one, and still in the back of the truck, was going to use my tractor to put it in the basement - but there are very few places to lift it from. Is this thing just too heavy to lift from the motor plate on top? I dont want to bend it or something

weighs 430 pounds


not mine, but exactly the same -

 

[stingry]

I have one just like yours. I put a sling under each side of the motor plate, connected the ends together at one point and lifted the compressor. No problems! You may want to remove the belt guard to prevent it from being bent.

Cheers
Steve

 

[Gary S]

When I got my compressor, I asked my YOUNG neighbor to try to help me unload it from my pickup. We quickly determined that an old fart like me wasn't going to lift half of 400#, so he called his friend who is a bricklayer. His friend came over and said if we put a decent handle on the compressor, he would unload it alone. He said he moved more pounds of bricks every day before his morning coffee break than the compressor weighed.
Well, we had no decent handles on it, so the two of them together just picked it up from the truck and set it on the ground.
It might be time to call a couple of your strongest friends and offer them some beer after they unload it for you.

 

[Hex173t]

I found myself in the same pickle when I brought home my 60 gal 5 hp IR. It's lighter than your's, I think at 330#. I got it off the truck by myself, pulled the pump and motor off and that lightened it, and slid it down off the truck using a 10 foot 2x12. Easy (ish).

Bill

 

[jamesemery728]

I have one just like yours. I put a sling under each side of the motor plate, connected the ends together at one point and lifted the compressor. No problems! You may want to remove the belt guard to prevent it from being bent.

Cheers
Steve

I have a QT-5 with a 60 gal tank that I have lifted the same way with no problems. Mine is an older one and weighs some where around 450 -500lbs. In fact the first time I had to lift it I called Quincy and this is how they told me to lift it.

 

[sparky7]

Ok so you guys took off the pulley cage? That means i have to remove the pulleys correct? (its sitting under a tarp right now il go look after i finish installing a fuel pump on my girlfriends POS cavalier)

 

[shannonw]

i did the same with my 60g ir, removed the pump (that is most of the weight or at least 1/2..seriously that joker is heavy), then the motor weighty too. Disassembly and reassembly is quick. I slid it out the back of my suv at the time onto my handcart (which i tied it to). The tank wasn't much of any weight at that point just awkward.

I removed the cage, motor, didn't touch the pulleys BUT before you remove the pump make sure you have an elevated block or something to set it so it's not resting on the big pulley..just easier.

 

[jamesemery728]

Ok so you guys took off the pulley cage? That means i have to remove the pulleys correct? (its sitting under a tarp right now il go look after i finish installing a fuel pump on my girlfriends POS cavalier)

I did not need to take off the pulley cage on mine. I think that I may have gone side to side with 2 straps rather than front to back. If you run your straps front to back then the pulley cage comes into contact with the straps and would have to be removed to keep from bending it. I do not remember having a problem with the cage so I must have gone side to side. You could also cut 2 pieces of 2x4 slightly longer than the compressor and motor and cage frame so that your straps did not even contact the pulley cage. When I look at mine it looks like this would work but without seeing how yours is put together it may not.

 

[Mmfh]

I moved my IR 10hp 120 gallon from the motor plate, its around 1k lbs. Run a tow strap or cable through the area between the motor plate and the top of the tank. Lift it with a cherry picker, or rig up something from the rafters or something up high that is strong.

Good Luck,

Mm

 

[brianpgriset]

I lifted my QT7.5 using the motor plate. No problems and it is well north of 600lbs.

 

[BD1]

There was a posting on this before. Guy drilled through top plate between motor and compressor and used a bolted eye bolt. He even showed a picture of it. Slings will work too if you have the head room.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I was fortunate enough to beable to use a 2 wheel dolley to move mine. If I had to lift it like you're talking, I'd use the strap wrapped under the motor plate like the others have suggested.

 

[stingry]

Ok so you guys took off the pulley cage? That means i have to remove the pulleys correct? (its sitting under a tarp right now il go look after i finish installing a fuel pump on my girlfriends POS cavalier)

you will not need to remove the pulleys.