On 4/26/2013 9:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > 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 > >
You are lucky you were able to get that out at all! The $150 plywood cost was cheap compared to what the heavy wrecker guys charge for a tug. I can relate to that. Last spring I got a 20,000 lb 4wd crane stuck in the grass inside my U shaped driveway when I tried to turn it around by cutting across the grass. The tires would just spin in the soft, recently thawed clay - which is a lot like grease when it gets wet. It stopped sinking at about 1.5 feet down I ended up parking it there for a week until the sopping wet ground refroze, then I used the hydraulic outriggers to jack it out of the frozen dirt, put blocks under the wheels and drove it out. That was no fun at all! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
