upthebikes
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2007
- Location
- Great Lakes USA
12x40 geared head lathe, right around 2100 lbs all castings no sheet metal. No towmotor
Planning on moving in a box truck with a 3k lift gate. Anybody see an issue with making an I shaped frame out of 4x4 or 6x6 cribbing and attaching 4 HD locking casters to the outboard ends to roll it around? Frame will be a foot or so wider than the lathe on all sides. Reason for no skid to liftgate is because there is another machine in the truck with it, so the lathe needs to be set in the truck perpendicular to how it would be sitting on the liftgate. I’m concerned that I won’t have the room to manipulate the skid once inside the truck box to turn it.
Plan is to lag lathe to the runners of the frame through the leveling screw holes in the base, roll over and onto liftgate, strap lathe to the liftgate itself, raise, push in truck and turn 90*. Once set in truck where I want it, use 5k pallet jack to lift up lathe an inch, then just remove casters from the runners and set lathe down on the wooden frame. lag frame outboards to the truck floor for the ride.
I have the 4 800lb casters, lags and all the cribbing already. Thoughts?
Planning on moving in a box truck with a 3k lift gate. Anybody see an issue with making an I shaped frame out of 4x4 or 6x6 cribbing and attaching 4 HD locking casters to the outboard ends to roll it around? Frame will be a foot or so wider than the lathe on all sides. Reason for no skid to liftgate is because there is another machine in the truck with it, so the lathe needs to be set in the truck perpendicular to how it would be sitting on the liftgate. I’m concerned that I won’t have the room to manipulate the skid once inside the truck box to turn it.
Plan is to lag lathe to the runners of the frame through the leveling screw holes in the base, roll over and onto liftgate, strap lathe to the liftgate itself, raise, push in truck and turn 90*. Once set in truck where I want it, use 5k pallet jack to lift up lathe an inch, then just remove casters from the runners and set lathe down on the wooden frame. lag frame outboards to the truck floor for the ride.
I have the 4 800lb casters, lags and all the cribbing already. Thoughts?