OT - Moving a lathe
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Hi There, I've bought myself a lathe, no the problem is getting it home. The weight of it is approx 650kgs, any tips on how to get it on and off the trailer. Do you think 6 people could lift it?

Team Racing

8 maybe

Large engine crane?

Jack it up and support on sturdy wood and axle stands then drive trailer out from underneath?

6 people might lift it, but carrying and maneouvering it would be a whole different ball game!

Me and my mate lifted his lathe off a trailer with 2 engine cranes, then dropped it onto poles, and then rolled it along, like the egyptians!

Tim Rowe

"Is est totus perfectus per fumi quod speculum"

GTM Coupe Turbo

Try this:

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

did the egyptians have lathes? lol

Team Racing

jim do you not now any body with a transit hiab, some tyre companys and engineerig companys who make truck springs, or even a tail lift on transit or 7,500 truck

the problem is pete there is no head room in the garage where it currently is, ot my garage which it it's going into. my guess is about 8ft max

Team Racing

With enough people, i reckon you could do it

Particularly with the application of weetabix/spinach/steriods

and stella!

Team Racing

The last time I saw one of these moved, the guy enlisted the help of the local mini-skip guy. He was able to lift the unit off the floor from inside the door and then lift it onto the back of the truck once he was outside. As for getting it off at the other end, he repeated the process but dropped it onto poles so it could be slid into its final position. £50 in his back pocket and he was happy.

can you take it apart at all jim ?

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

Pallet truck it
We used to have one of these. Heavy buggers for what they are.

Edited by Jordan on 26th Nov, 2007.

Back once again like a renegade master

you could use soaped up timber and let it slide into the garage from the trailer,not for the faint hearted:cool:

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Rite if it weighes 650 kg how much does your mini weigh (no more i would of thaught) try and pick that up. ye the rear no probs but fronts a different ball game . Anyway think the pallet truck idea is best with engine crane to get on an off trailer, either way whatever you do its going to be fun . He He He

Rick

Hi i just brought my new mill home got it off the trailer using some nock up scafolding some 7x2" timber and the chain block waighs best part of 1200Kg.

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dont attemt to lift it jim even with many peeps its too small a heavy weight & top heavy and will go over an kill someone.......... god forbid

remove the headset if you can and maybe then

Strip down the lathe, remove the bed from the base and do it with an engine crane, takes a while but you will still have your back intact!! which is better? more time moving it in sections, or a couple of weeks off work because you have pulled your back?
Shane.