doug metzler wrote: > That is another issue. My mill/lathe was only 500 pounds, but when it > arrived I had to get it off the truck myself, get it into the shop and up > on the bench. We used an engine cherry picker. But if you order yourself > a 3500 pound machine you're probably going to need to hire someone to move > it in, which is additional cost and logistics. > > No, I moved the 1500 Lb Bridgeport mill pretty much myself, with a pry bar and iron pipe as rollers. I rented a lift-gate truck.
For the 3500 Lb. lathe, I rented a rough terrain forklift, and the only one they had weighted 21,500 Lbs, and sank repeatedly in my mushy back yard. I eventually bought my hardware store out of 3/4" plywood, most of which was turned into splinters, but it kept the lift truck from sinking again. See <http://pico-systems.com/sheldon.html> for some pics from that saga! Once inside, I used the rollers again to move it around. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
