I looking for any possible suggestions on how to flip a large flat piece of steel weighing 25kip that is 12.5ftX9ftX0.5ft. At the company I work for we already use an overhead crane with a chain wrapped around the piece of steel to flip it but this takes too long. I have explored options of using clamps with the crane but none of the vertical clamps are big enough or affordable enough and other clamps don't promise to be a sufficient option. One last thought which seems best is welding two pad-I's to one side of the piece of steel and hooking chains to the pad-I's but that requires welding and arcing time. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks!
A big Komatsu excavator will turn it over in a few seconds. Some well placed semtex might do it as well but you'd need an explosives expert to get exactly the right amount.
