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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
If you just "can't get there from here", they might have to drag it down to the water and onto a barge.
This would be a fun one. This is the kind of stuff I miss. We can get really creative on this kind of recovery.
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As I was reading through your post, I wondered about taking to a barge instead of lifting. I also really enjoy that type of stuff.
We installed a Nuclear medicine camera at a college on the second floor. Elevator is rated at 2,500 lbs, but the gantry weighs 6,400 lbs. Had to call in a rigging company to lift it into a window. In the foreground you can see the white gantry with plastic packaging wrapped around the detectors. The blue and yellow devices are the shipping brackets. That white cart with vertical thingys is a set of collimators that get switched out depending on the scan type. That set weighs about 600 lbs and mates to the detectors and rolls into place.
Site Diagnostic Imaging Managers know this stuff, but facilites and construction guys are shocked to hear the weight involved. A CT scanner weighs in at about 3,000 lbs, but MRI can be 13,00 to 24,000 lbs!
