Bridgeport, moving day, Sean's new mill, Machine is on rollers, ready to be raised for 2x6 skid runners. 8-2017
We had to rotate the head and run the ram all the way back, to make a more compact, easier to handle package.
The 2x6's below are to give the machine a larger foot print for the rollers, which are 1 1/2" pipe.
Once the machine is on rollers it is moved with my collection of pry bars, which range from a 6 foot machine bar down to little 12" hand bars.
The back of the trailer is held up by house bottle jacks on the ground so the trailer doesn't squat as we load the machine.
Later the machine is pulled onto a flat bed trailer with come-alongs, and finally held in place by putting nails through the 2x6's into the floor of the trailer. Nails are not driven all the way down so they are easily pulled later.
The machine is also lashed off in all four directions with ratchet straps.
On a 1 day notice, we had 2 days to get it out.
1st day we put the mill on the 2x6's and moved it to the garage door: 6 hrs. The 2nd day loaded the machine onto trailer, 4 hrs. , We then moved it about 50 miles, 2 hrs. Unloaded I machine, about 2 hrs.
The machine weighed 2,100 LBS.
Bridgeport, moving day, Sean's new mill, Machine is on rollers, ready to be raised for 2x6 skid runners. 8-2017
We had to rotate the head and run the ram all the way back, to make a more compact, easier to handle package.
The 2x6's below are to give the machine a larger foot print for the rollers, which are 1 1/2" pipe.
Once the machine is on rollers it is moved with my collection of pry bars, which range from a 6 foot machine bar down to little 12" hand bars.
The back of the trailer is held up by house bottle jacks on the ground so the trailer doesn't squat as we load the machine.
Later the machine is pulled onto a flat bed trailer with come-alongs, and finally held in place by putting nails through the 2x6's into the floor of the trailer. Nails are not driven all the way down so they are easily pulled later.
The machine is also lashed off in all four directions with ratchet straps.
On a 1 day notice, we had 2 days to get it out.
1st day we put the mill on the 2x6's and moved it to the garage door: 6 hrs. The 2nd day loaded the machine onto trailer, 4 hrs. , We then moved it about 50 miles, 2 hrs. Unloaded I machine, about 2 hrs.
The machine weighed 2,100 LBS.