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| Powder Keg:
If you have it off the stand, You could just drag it on a piece of ply wood? Or put pipe rollers under the plywood. I've moved stuff that way. |
| bilhar:
hi powder keg yes I will taking the stand off and 90 percent of the move can be done as you say but i have get get it off the lorry which stand a meter high then i have to raise it roughly 18 inch from the patio to the lawn. then I would need a lot people to help me knowing the friends i know it will just turn into a party lot of alcohol will be drink next day i will have a hang over with the lathe in the middle of the patio |
| Bogstandard:
Hi, I have exactly the same lathe as yourself, with the same sort of problems. Actually I have had two, I wasn't happy with the first one, so they had to come back and swap it over. Both times it was moved with an engine hoist, bit of a pallet and lengths of plywood sheet. There is no easy way around it. The first time it was installed was by a moving specialist, and took about 3 hours from getting the machine off the back of his truck to actually having it in position in my shop, at a cost of 300 squid (but that included a lot of travelling costs). The second time it was free and Chester UK did the humping, with a lot of advice from myself. Without it, it would still be sitting on their truck, and it took them about 6 hours. The main problems is going up and down steps, and having to dismantle and reassemble the lifting equipment. The motor can come off to reduce weight, but you need to leave the saddle on to balance the head end. In all honesty, if you could hire four strapping lads for half an hour, a couple of strops and scaffold bars, it could be off your truck and in your shop in less than five or ten minutes just by manhandling it. As soon as you start to use hoists, trucks, jacks, sheets of wood etc, things get very awkwards, very quickly, and it can take hours. This is how the chap got my mill into the shop, 4 hours, and most probably only half the distance you have to go. http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=2314.msg23091#msg23091 He was the one that moved the lathe into the shop, but I didn't get any shots of the progress http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=2314.msg24991#msg24991 You have a major problem on your hands, all I can suggest is don't bother with the gantry, go manual. Bogs Bogs |
| Bernd:
Hi bilhar :wave: Welcome to the collective. :borg: Here's a thread I wrote about getting my Bridgeport into the basement. Not quite the same, but it may give you some idea's on moving something heavy. http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=381.0 Good luck getting your lathe set up. As far as the pictures go, I use the software that comes with my digital camera. It usally has an operation where you can size the picturres. Others use Photobucket and such places to store there pics. Bernd |
| bilhar:
i decided to heed the advice above and abandon the A frame idea. so I ordered engine host from ebay. use the material instead to build a large table. below some picture of the workshop i am building 5m X 5m breeze block claded two side with timber |
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