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Unloading New Chimney Facade Material

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Demolish and Rebuild a Fireplace pt1 -time lapse

What happens here

New materials for the chimney rebuild are delivered to the site, arriving wrapped on a large pallet. The presenter explains that these new artificial rock panels are made from recycled truck bedliner, making them significantly lighter than the original concrete rocks (estimated at 200-300 lbs compared to 2,000-3,000 lbs). A Bobcat skid steer equipped with pallet forks is used to carefully and efficiently unload the bulky pallet from the delivery truck, demonstrating the advantage of using heavy machinery for such deliveries, especially as it was raining at the time. The delivery driver had initially hesitated to unload due to the inclement weather, highlighting the importance of having appropriate equipment available.

Goal: Safely and efficiently unload the lightweight replacement materials.

Tools and materials

  • Pallet Jack — Assisting in moving the pallet on the truck bed if needed before full unloading
  • Artificial Rock Panels Universal Rocks — The new, lightweight facade material for the chimney rebuild, made from truck bedliner

What they say

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cancel cuz it's raining out and I'm like no you're not so I have to run out there jump and you'll see him driving away as I'm chasing him down in the skid loader he told me on here he has run it driving backward so I caught him he told me he didn't want to do the Liberty because it's been was pouring rain off and on and this is a big fall bulky thing he didn't know I had a skid loader he thought he was gonna have to hand unload this so but that little orange jack thing it wouldn't touch this bone it was just too off-balance that's not heavy it's just bulky so this is artificial rock underneath this tarp and it's actually made out of truck bedliner there's a dude down in Texas at Universal rocks his name is Stewie this crazy artist guy and he goes

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