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Please show me your Bridgeport lifting pictures

hornluv

Aluminum
Joined
Oct 20, 2005
Location
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Does anybody have some good pictures of your Bridgeport or similar mill being lifted? I want to get mine off the pallet I made for it but the engine hoist I have just won't lift it high enough (the back side comes up but the knee side stays down). I'm trying to lift it with lifting straps around the ram wrapped up in a basket type weave. Every other weave I've tried ends up being too long and I run out of travel on the hoist. I don't have a suitable eye bolt for the lifting point, but I'm going to look for one tomorrow. I don't have a forklift or anything like it. I can't imagine I'd be able to use one anyway as my ceiling is low. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Stuart
 
lifting a bridgeport type mill

HELLO,
you do not say how high it is now, so
i assume it is not very much. i suggest
you get some help, and some 2x4s and
a couple of heavy pry bars. go to one end
of the mill, and lift it up, and put cribbing
under it, just enough to clear whatever it is
sitting on. then go to the other end of the mill,
and do the same thing. then remove the stand,
cart, or whatever the mill is sitting on. then carefully
pry one end up, and remove one 2x4, then go to the
other end of the mill, and do the same thing. you get
the picture, it is slowly going to get on the floor doing
this. i would let it down on some pipe, so you can roll
the machine, and then scoot it over to where you want
it to go. then pry one end up, and remove the pipe, and
do the same on the other end.
good luck.
wlbrown
 
Don't know your exact situation. Might be easier to help if you posted a pic.
Lower the knee as far as possible and be very careful because the BP's have a fairly high center of gravity.
 








 
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