txvwnut
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Check out Steve Summers on youtube, he has a couple videos showing how he gets equipment off of a trailer without any lifting devices.
How would you move this machine?
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It's definitely on the list
speed bump
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On my edlund which weighs 2300 lbs and is over the 7 ft garage door height I separated the top and bottom and then used my engine hoist to reassemble. Took maybe half a day. I think I rolled the head assembly in attached to the engine hoist and rolled the base in on some pipe.
svhamelly
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+1
I had a 750 pound safe moved into my garage this way one time... Boom tow truck lifted it off the delivery truck (no lift gate) and backed up my driveway and deposited it just inside the garage door. easy peasy!
My Old Tools
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Either lay it down or separate the pieces. Either can be done with the engine hoist because you aren't lifting all the weight in either case. Pipe rollers, a mule (rolling pry bar), and crowbar are your friends. I move my 1800# Crescent bandsaw on pipe rollers. Most other machinery can be lifted by the 1 ton shop crane and rolled with it. I moved my whole shop, metal lathe, mill, shaper, table saw, 4 bandsaws up to 32", 16" jointer, 18" planer, 8" jointer, two RAS, etc, completely by myself loading with an engine hoist.
GrayFlattop
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Glad that you can split it in two pieces - this makes the job easier. +1 on using an engine hoist for the task.
BUT, if you want to hire a rigger, I can heartily recommend these guys. A little project from a few years ago...
And the top end comes together here.
It was the coolest, most expensive, most nerve-wracking project I've ever been responsible for.
BUT, if you want to hire a rigger, I can heartily recommend these guys. A little project from a few years ago...
And the top end comes together here.
It was the coolest, most expensive, most nerve-wracking project I've ever been responsible for.
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Any idea what it weighs ?
akpolaris
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You seem to be the only one that recognized the 7" difference. Got to use some equipment or build a lifting platform to lay it on it's side, slide it in and stand it back up. Measure twice, cut once certainly applies hereUnless you really need it I think I would sell it and get something a little smaller
If it is taller than your garage door you are going to have to tip it over somehow. Too late now but I would have had it loaded on the trailer on its side with the base to the rear of the trailer. Then you could have backed into the garage and slid it off and tilted it up at the same time somehow.
A rigging company might have something like a heavy duty appliance hand truck that can do the job ??
What kind of power requirements does it have ?
racecougar
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Zeke
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The way the sentence is written suggests the unit is taller, not the load.
"forgot to mention the best part. It's 7" higher then my garage door."
Rent a forklift. There are shorter models with no backrest on the mast that will fit in a garage. You can flip the forks around to get much closer to the ceiling. I can have that thing off the trailer and in your shop in 5 minutes.
walta
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GrayFlattop
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That's a great solution!
I wouldn't do it that way, but if you can't get your hands on a lift truck...
jar944
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Ha i just came here to post the bandsaw roller pic..lol
RPH
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Yes, separate the pieces. This was the way I moved my Bridgeport. Separated into 3 pieces. Each is easily handled by cherry picker. Once assembled it goes in at 1800#.
Metal-Marc
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Sikorsky helicopter anyone?
Carguy99
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I’ve moved a lot of stuff by myself by taking it apart and moving the manageable pieces.
walta
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GrayFlattop
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Pick it from the top, lay it back at an angle - then put machinery rollers under the base (alternatively, put a piece of plywood under it and drag it in on that) - pull it in the garage with the chain or strap sling still attached to the forklift. I've done it with dozens of punch presses before and they all weighed considerably more than this piece.
But if the OP is not comfortable with that, then he should hire a rigger.
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This thing was a real pain. Wheels didn't want to roll after picking it up. I didn't have enough lift on the boom. Having a hard time tipping the Press head level once it was up on the table. Definitely pretty sketchy, and learned alot of what not to do for future moves. Definitely felt just the head was maxing out the shop Crane at mid extension.
Now I can turn attention to clean up and figuring out why the quill will not fully extend. I can also see a chain that is off its sprocket I can see inside the quill housing.
Now I can turn attention to clean up and figuring out why the quill will not fully extend. I can also see a chain that is off its sprocket I can see inside the quill housing.
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nadogail
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I have moved machines by setting them on a Sandwich of two pieces of sheet metal with a grease filler. They slipped easily.
pelletman
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Jeez you have a lot of faith in those ladders. Rated for 300# each?!
metalmagpie
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Those import engine hoists have wheels that are barely rated to carry the weight of the crane - empty. The axle pins on those are about 1/8"! Everyone seems to think they can pick up a ton and roll it around - well, those casters crumple up like tin foil.
The right way is to lift it with an engine hoist, then roll a dolly underneath and set it down on the dolly. Then roll it.
Or get a real shop crane with honest-to-God wheels. The brand Ruger comes to mind.
metalmagpie
pelletman
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Wow, THAT'S rigging! How much was that job?
Rst277
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Glad you got it in there!
LS6 Tommy
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No help on the move other than suggesting a rigger. I'd be more concerned about powering it. I bet it's a fairly big 3 phase motor...
Tommy
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Glad you got it done, it if I had been helping I would have left once you pulled out the floor jack. That looks like a major accident waiting to happen (glad it didn’t)….
I swapped wheels to used basic 4" casters I found on marketplace. The caster frames are made out of very hard steel and finished with the same stuff they put on grade 8 bolts. The wheels were a hard rubber. Swapped those out for a poly on aluminum wheel. Still not great. May swap to something else.
Yeah I know but it looks a lot worse than it is. There's two straps running to the back of the base that are holding up all of the weight. They are actually also holding up the weight of the shop crane.
rktinc
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I recently had to get these out of the front of a box truck and onto the street. 2600 lbs of breakable aluminum frames and storefront glass. Horrible experience. Fork lift dragged them to the back of the truck then 7 foot long forks to lift this 9 foot long pallet.
I almost had a heart attack. I think I was having chest pains... NEVER AGAIN. HIRE THESE KINDS OF THINGS DONE!!!!!
RKTINC
I almost had a heart attack. I think I was having chest pains... NEVER AGAIN. HIRE THESE KINDS OF THINGS DONE!!!!!
RKTINC
450 each, normally we just lifted those out with a cup and two or four peopleI recently had to get these out of the front of a box truck and onto the street. 2600 lbs of breakable aluminum frames and storefront glass. Horrible experience. Fork lift dragged them to the back of the truck then 7 foot long forks to lift this 9 foot long pallet.
I almost had a heart attack. I think I was having chest pains... NEVER AGAIN. HIRE THESE KINDS OF THINGS DONE!!!!!
RKTINC
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cvairwerks
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If the chain is off the sprocket, then it's binding up the quill movement. The counterbalance is probably stuck too.
whateg01
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700# is pretty easy to do with an engine hoist. I built a cradle to go under the head of my wt drill press so I didn't have to get above it. The cradle pivots where the chain would bolt to the boom. Once it's on the ground you can pick it up with the engine hoist to lay it over. Move into the garage. Lift the head off the floor enough to get the cradle under the head again, then lift upright.
whateg01
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I don't know where y'all get the idea that you aren't supposed to roll an engine hoist with a load on it. How tf do you get an engine out of a car or back in?
GrayFlattop
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The rigging was negotiated into the price of the press (assembled weight without feed line is 2.1 million pounds), so it’s hard to break it out. The press was a bit more than $8 mil, feed line and transfer system another $1 mil each. Excavating down 25’, raising the roof another 25’, 990 yards of concrete and a dedicated 3,000 amp service made this a budget buster. The riggers did a great job, I’d estimate that portion alone would be about $350k give or take $50k. There were 13 truckloads of rigging equipment in and out.