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| John Hill:
Lathe gets unloaded at last! we have been in the new house for more than a week and all that time my lathe has been sitting on the trailer while I organised some means of unloading it (I also had a lot of other stuff to unpack too! :coffee:) DSCN0284 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr Here it is on the trailer all roped up and hooked onto the chain lift that is hanging from a 'U' bolt I had*** made to fit over the lintel of that door and up to a beam in the loft space. DSCN0286 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr Two minutes later the trailer is gone and it is hanging in mid air! Not even a creak from the beam. :ddb: DSCN0287 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr A bit of huffing and puffing and the lathe is positioned under the new skylight in the new workshop. DSCN0289 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr I used Egyptian techniques to get it into position.. ***I had to have someone make the 'U' bolt as all my workshop is still packed in a shipping container. |
| dsquire:
John Glad to see that with your good planning that it went safely and according to plan. That was a well planed idea to but the beam there to take that kind of weight. :clap: :clap: Just curious, how close did the gross weight of the container come to what you had calculated it to be? :smart: Cheers :beer: Don |
| John Hill:
--- Quote from: dsquire on February 16, 2011, 02:26:55 AM ---John Glad to see that with your good planning that it went safely and according to plan. That was a well planed idea to but the beam there to take that kind of weight. :clap: :clap: Just curious, how close did the gross weight of the container come to what you had calculated it to be? :smart: Cheers :beer: Don Hi Don --- End quote --- I thought the container was 8 tons, the truck driver thought it was heavier than that but the railways check in scales said 8.2 tonnes. So I was quite happy with my home made load cell. |
| dsquire:
John I would have to say that was a pretty good calculation that you made then to get that close. Thanks for the info John. Good luck with the rest of the unpacking. :ddb: :ddb: Cheers :beer: Don |
| Bogstandard:
That's it John, get the important bits done first. You can live without furniture and food for a little while yet. John |
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