How to brew with an injury??

[Swifty]

I've recently torn my ligament and done cartlidge damage (not sure on the spelling there) and am using the wife to lug around the fermenter and kegs etc. I want to do a batch on the weekend and will need help but she isn't around and don't have anyone else to help.
So the question is, how do others do it? Has anyone got any idea's for moving heavy fermenters, pots, kegs etc when you can't physically lift them yourself???

[KEG]

invite the mates around for a couple beers

[beerdrinker]

using the wife to lug around the fermenter and kegs

i like your work

[Boonie]

invite the mates around for a couple beers

Absolutely KEG ...Wife is away, organise a BBQ with beers for your mates on the proviso they help you lift the kegs.

You can be the foreman for the day One hint though, get them to do it before they get sloshed. My mate "helped" me one day and proceeded to knock over every empty botle I had.....clumsy bugger after a few

[Swifty]

It would be the perfect solution but I only have two friends, one guy will be playing cricket and the other is 200km away and has a bad back. I might just have to wait for the wife then.

[Old Gil]

Where abouts in Melb are you I don't have alot of time on the weekends but if your close I would be glad to help, and I'd feel bad letting a fellow brewer go without. Plus It'd be good to acctually meet a fellow brewer, I have no brewing friends

[Swifty]

Hi Swainy, I'm in Croydon south. I too have no brewing friends, it's a lonely day when brewing. Luckily I have the beer and dogs to keep me company. I was going to brew Saturday but since the wife is home Sunday I think I'll just do it then, that way she can do all the heavy lifting while I sit back with a beer and tell her what to do
I thought there would be some guys out there with back problems or something that may have a few idea's but it seems everyone is fit and healthy.

[gregb]

Luckily I have the beer and dogs to keep me company.

Gee that sounds sad. I at least have the voices in my head to talk to.

Cheers,
Greg

[Old Gil]

hmmmm it is a bit far from me, @ least you get to do it on sunday (the brew i mean). The most my missus will do is put sugar in the bottles and then put the caps on. Your on a winner there mate

[Old Gil]

Oh and drink my beer when it's done

[beerdrinker]

Sit your fermenter on a skateboard? Still heavy lifting into the fridge though

[JubJub]

My back is kind of stuffed. When it was realy bad and I didn't do full boils etc, I just did the kit, dry extract straight into the fermenter and stuff and put the fermenter in the brew fridge and carried 20 or so pyrex jugs of water to it one by one so the max lift would have been 5 kg or so.

Jub

[Swifty]

The worst part is the brew fridge and keg fridge are in the garage and I brew inside. So actually making the brew is not as much of a problem as getting the fermenter and kegs to the fridge's. There is also five or six steps as the decking steps down. I've been thinking of using my trolley but would have to be careful as you have to tip it back and I might make a mess!! I'm thinking the wife is just going to have to help me until I am healed, which according to different people may be up to two years depending on when I get the operation.
Having to rely on her for help could be a good angle to use in convincing her the fridge's need to be inside
I might take Jub's advice though and start filling the fermenter whilst in the fridge. All-grain's may have to be put on hold unless I have help.

[Paul]

I just started doing double batches yesterday as I made a big fermenter. The fermenter lives in a chest freezer when brewing that I put on old shopping trolley wheels to make it really high of the ground. Once the beer has finished brewing I can siphon the beer into kegs that are on the ground.

Maybe a similar setup could work. Im able to put a batch on (kits and bits) without lifting much at all other that the fermenter when empty into the freezer. Once its in there I add my cans, hops water etc. and when its done its siphoned out so the only lifting is the kegs once its done.

[Tipsy]

I've been thinking of using my trolley but would have to be careful as you have to tip it back and I might make a mess!!

If you got one of those pail type fermenters you could tip it back as long as you plugged the airlock hole. The seals on those are great.