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I missed this thread. What did you wind up doing?
A come along is sorta like a mechanical winch kind of. I thought those were mostly for running fence?
I have set a few big radiators back in my plumbing days and we used big sheets of cardboard to protect the floor, and we used an engine hoist to pick them up and then roll it over to where it will be set and lower it into place. That worked good for me, no damage to the floors!
Depending on the design of the old radiator feet, sliding it may not be an option? It might still damage the flooring right through the cardboard.
I managed to move it a couple of feet so I could work behind it, which meant I could rip the wall apart and repair the brickwork behind it. Then I shifted focus to a different area while I figured out what to do with a radiator that weighs significantly more than I do.
I don't think dragging it is an option. It has six feet - two at each end and two in the middle. I can't imagine sliding it doing anything other than trashing the flooring underneath it. If I can figure a way to lift it I have wheeled platforms that should take the weight (each one will take my weight individually, and I have four of them), it's just not a trivial process to lift it high enough to get these things underneath it.
Sooner or later I need to deal with it, as I want to insulate and restud the wall, and I can't do that with the radiator so close to the wall. I may try to slide it outside. I'd rather not leave it outside but it's heavy enough that it would take a remarkably determined thief to steal it.