Well, it’s been years in the making, but today I had a big frigg’n Quincy air compressor delivered with the plan to get it into the loft. This beast weighs 500 pounds, but it’s the reason I put the lift where I did and also the reason I had my electrician run 220 to the corner of a future loft when I had the garage built.
The FedEx dude did a great job getting the compressor into my garage without messing up the floor.
Using a bunch of scrap wood from my loft project, I built a platform so that the top part would be level with the loft with the lift all the way up. Everything was screwed together and was actually quite stable.
I wasn’t sure if my teens sons and I could lift this monster up to the platform. We each grabbed a leg with one hand and stabilized the top heavy compressor with the other... it worked!
With the hardest part behind us, the lift worked like a champ to raise it up to the loft floor.
From there, we simply slid it onto the loft floor and then used a combination of sliding it on plastic and walking it back on its legs to the far corner.
All of the measurements worked! It fit like a glove.
Victory pose from my boys!
Now I have to connect the electric and get it plumbed with a drain, filter and dryer. I may have to buy some accessories too!
It was a big stress relief when we got the beast into the loft. I wasn’t sure if the 3 of us could handle it, but it was a total success!
The FedEx dude did a great job getting the compressor into my garage without messing up the floor.
Using a bunch of scrap wood from my loft project, I built a platform so that the top part would be level with the loft with the lift all the way up. Everything was screwed together and was actually quite stable.
I wasn’t sure if my teens sons and I could lift this monster up to the platform. We each grabbed a leg with one hand and stabilized the top heavy compressor with the other... it worked!
With the hardest part behind us, the lift worked like a champ to raise it up to the loft floor.
From there, we simply slid it onto the loft floor and then used a combination of sliding it on plastic and walking it back on its legs to the far corner.
All of the measurements worked! It fit like a glove.
Victory pose from my boys!
Now I have to connect the electric and get it plumbed with a drain, filter and dryer. I may have to buy some accessories too!
It was a big stress relief when we got the beast into the loft. I wasn’t sure if the 3 of us could handle it, but it was a total success!
