Is the drill press a floor mounted model? You will know from trying to move it how easily you can get it rocking if it is and you can probably imagine what damage it would do if it fell over.
My table saw is a very elderly Rockwell cast steel table with one extension which makes it lop sided which is why I disassembled it. My jointer I moved up from Sarnia in the bed of a pick-up laying on it's side and blocked to keep from rocking and tied securely into one corner but for a move like you are planning I think I would remove it from the steel stand, still a substantial task but at least then the bulk of the weight is on the floor. The steel stand doesn't weight much and it does have a fairly wide foot print so it might not matter too much. If you just bind the saw face to a wall or the front of the van and bound tightly there with a blanket between it and the wall it will probably travel pretty well. If you can similarly very tightly bind the drill press into a corner it might travel just fine too. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Sexton To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] moving shop So, I can just pack everything into boxes? I wish the jointer bed would come apart into more pieces. I think I'll take the two extention wings off the saw, but it's a delta unisaw so is pretty balanced. Ug, my poor drill press, it was hard enough lifting the thing up onto it's lofty perch... ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] moving shop Hi David, If you call them they can probably give you some advice and I see that they will supply some boxes and some other packing supplies. Some tools, in particular my table saw which has moved across the country twice now, are a little off balance. This can cause real trouble in a van with lurching about. I removed the extension table and the motor to lower the centre of gravity, you might load them into a box lashed to the body of the unit if your saw is that sort of configuration. Similarly, a jointer on a steel stand is pretty top heavy and might benefit from being removed from the stand and packed separately. The drill press is a really top heavy machine, particularly a floor standing model. They are damn heavy disassembled but with the head unit removed and packed probably upside down, then the table and column removed from the base it won't fall over and crush anything. If that is all you are moving then it should all go into a single cube van and if you can get suitable sized boxes should load up well, otherwise I would consider a lot of packing blankets to wrap things up in. The planer shouldn't pose much trouble if it is a so-called portable unit, router tables come in all sorts of flavours but can be a little fragile so might well benefit from boxing up. Again, they do offer a telephone help and advice service so you might also talk to them. Because you pack yourself you will probably also be able to rope and otherwise bind some of the heavy stuff directly to the van walls. Most have rails and other fixing points and this may well be enough. Having done a move that sort of way once myself one thing I discovered is that the shaking and vibration of the road causes things to migrate a little and often rub probably many thousands of times against other items. Things like kitchen and dining room chairs for example really should be individually packed in boxes even though this uses up loads of space. You might throw towels and blankets and other soft goods into the boxes to fill them up and take advantage of some of that volume but if you don't box them some will eventually get well warn against something else. Hope this is useful. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Sexton To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] moving shop I need advice about shipping all my woodshop machines cross-country. I was thinking about using www.upack.com, but I'm not sure the best way to pack everything for the move. I have a table saw, jointer, drill press, work bench, router table, and a plainer. 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