Can 3-30 bbl fermentors be installed by two guys and a fork lift?

….. if you have your guys weld a “trojan horse” to give a little lift tothe fork, you can.

the invention as it tows a tank across the street

Jeff had this steel doo hicky welded together so that we could do the setting of the tanks with our own equipment and not hire a rigging crew.  It fits over the forks and with a little forethought, worked like a charm.

into the brewery

The tanks had to be slid in sideways due to the existing door height. With the fork lift pulling the front and the pallet jack supporting the back end, it wasn’t bad…until we hit the lip of the garage floor. Ugh!  4X4 beam to the rescue.

up..up...up....

With the high ceilings in the expansion and the steel fork extensions, we went straight up and lifted the tank into its upright position.  A few gouges in the floor, but…

success!

Now just to dangle it into it’s spot, level it off and get glycol and electricity to the tank.

The finsihed product.

As of today, we have one of the thirty’s filled and the othr two are waiting to be cleaned.  All told, this will give us 90 more barrels of fermentation space.  Much needed!

Next up, Jeff and Matt are off to Boston for the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference.