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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


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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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