Need suggestions for getting bench mill in pickup bed.

[jives]

Way overthinking it. Any reasonable hand truck can easily move 350 lbs around, assuming that the load is somewhat symmetrical. Couple of 2 x 10 planks for ramps, PROPERLY SECURED, and pull it right into the truck. Somebody can push, another pull, up the ramp if need be.

 

[Uncle murph]

Bolt it to a skid and drag it up a ramp with a come-a-long. 350lbs is nearly nothing as far as mills go.

This is precisely what I did with a full sized mill,slow but definitely got the job done.

 

[Toolmaker51]

As stated, craigslist, offerup, marketplace, e'bay. Plan ahead and scan for useful bits, bite when price is right; you learn by scanning for useful bits. . ., planning ahead.
When I go on a run for heavy stuff, part of the 'logistics' is the onload. Condition of their driveway, is it on the floor or table, loading equipment on site etc; against the offload, let's say onto a table. If reasonable, it goes into pickup bed. Some are, without equipment too big for individuals, hire riggers.
Here's one I did. Calculated weight at ~1500 pounds, over 4' long, 6' tall, barely 2' deep. Tilt trailer, pry and Johnson bars, boat trailer winch, peeler cores (round landscape edging), 2x6's, drive screws, lag bolts, cordless saw-drill-impact, by myself overnight in owners private shop, worn carpet dunnage, ratchet iedowns.
Despite camera setting, this was 2017.
Unloaded by pulling bolt from tilt bed, already back on one roller winched to centerline to tilt down, while restraining other end (up hill). Remaining rollers at trailer threshold, it climbed right on them, pushed indoors.
Good enough for ancient Egyptians, good enough for me. I use pipe sometimes, b-uut these wood rollers better, even traverse 3/4" crushed gravel! Try THAT with machine skates.

 

[Toolmaker51]

Way overthinking it. Any reasonable hand truck can easily move 350 lbs around, assuming that the load is somewhat symmetrical. Couple of 2 x 10 planks for ramps, PROPERLY SECURED, and pull it right into the truck. Somebody can push, another pull, up the ramp if need be.

Generally speaking, while bench mill is relatively symmetrical, the depth will be far beyond the dolly tongue and tilt back next to impossible; even tied to dolly. I have both kinds of appliance dollies; 2 wheeled and 4, useless for that kind of load; compared to something like a gunsafe in same general weight category.

 

[Zeke]

This is precisely what I did with a full sized mill,slow but definitely got the job done.

Same thing with a Unisaw, but on its side. Top heavy loads ****, but you do what you have to do. Strictly muscle power is for amateurs.

 

[PoorUB]

Last time I hauled a Unisaw I had a piece of carpet and flipped it over, upside down. Barely need to tie it down as all the weight is in the top of the saw so with the saw flipped over the cast iron table supports it well.