Gallery, Projects and General > How do I??

need to move a lathe

<< < (6/9) > >>

shipto:
I was thinking of sending them some pics even if the painted plate sheds light on its true designation seeing as they dont seem to have anything like it on there. However I will wait until I have it in my shop and clean it up a little at least.

mattinker:
If your going to contact Tony, do it now, he can take a very long time to reply!

It looks like a great lathe! Regards, Matthew

appletree:
When I moved my willson lathe I used a baby hiab type crane, it lifts 800kg but the lathe was too heavy, I removed headstock motor and tailstock. The crane only just managed to lift the bed and remaining bits, all up I think it weighs about 1100 to 12000 kg.
I fully stripped cleaned painted and reassembled the lathe, much heavier lump, to move it iraised it up 5 or 6 inches the good old fashioned way with levers and put a pallet truck underneath it.
Fortunately  the tips reached far enough to be at the centre off gravity, I tied the lathe to the truck with ratchet straps and moved the lathe that way though it still needed a bit of grunt

shipto:
no worries there I was talking to the guy who is going to move it and the truck he is bringing has a hiab (is that even the correct spelling?) thats got a 10 metre range and he says it can lift 6 tonne at that length. I am hoping he can put it right inside the door of my raised workshop without me even having to move the campervan from the drive.

AdeV:

--- Quote from: shipto on July 20, 2015, 03:54:45 PM ---no worries there I was talking to the guy who is going to move it and the truck he is bringing has a hiab (is that even the correct spelling?) thats got a 10 metre range and he says it can lift 6 tonne at that length. I am hoping he can put it right inside the door of my raised workshop without me even having to move the campervan from the drive.

--- End quote ---

Hiab is the correct spelling - it's a manufacturer, a bit like Hoover made the, er, hoover.

6 tonnes  at 10 metres! That's going to be one hell of a crane...

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page