Andy, Agreed, and the less height and the less you have to maneuver the beast the better off you are gonna be that much is clear. If you have a slab that is nice and level and smooth you can probably do that pretty easy. If he has the rollback move the machine to his shop and then gets it unloaded onto the floor they can push it in with that flat tow ram coming out the back. The one on the truck that moved my cincinatti arrow 500 was able to travel quite a distance. I had carefully lifted my machine before I moved it onto some long 4x4s and bolted them on thru the same large bolt holes that the leveling pods screw down under and made essentially some heavy duty skids. Once he set it down in the doorway to the shop he pushed it as far as he could and then retracted the ram and used another piece of 4x4 to push it the same ram distance into the shop. I only had to move it another five or six feet into position.
Pete On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:58 PM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 June 2013 02:45, Pete Matos <petefro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I moved a 4500 lb large lathe with myself and my wife > > and a come a long on some 1" diameter black iron pipe pretty easily. > > The last few machines that my Dad and I have moved we haven't even > bothered with rollers, just dragged them across the floor with a > chain-pull. Less chance of getting out of control that way, and they > do slide more easily than you might expect. > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
