How not to pick up a VMC

ALTECJBLEV · Mar 29, 2015

My customer hired me to go and pick up his VMC he won at the auction deliver it to his shop and set it in place. He was adamant about using the auction company to load it because it was free. So I get there my customer is there I go inside to look at some of other machines and I come out and see this. In the end they couldn't figure out how to set it down on the trailer and paid me to load it.

metalmaster10 · Mar 29, 2015

THAT is why it's hard to hire someone before seeing them work.
I'm pretty sure I have seen those guys in action....

jrmach · Mar 29, 2015

Fucking Brilliant

IronReb · Mar 29, 2015

Give them some credit guys, come on!

They at least didn't yank it up by the Z axis servo or spindle motor.

metalmaster10 · Mar 29, 2015

IronReb said:
Give them some credit guys, come on!

They at least didn't yank it up by the Z axis servo or spindle motor.

Yeah, but I wouldn't expect extreme reliability from that tool changer now... :angry:

M.B. Naegle · Mar 29, 2015

I wouldn't be surprised if there are alignment and accuracy problems for which there are no cure in that machines future.

ewlsey · Mar 29, 2015

Looks like they chained around the tool changer mount arm. Must be a light machine if that little reach boom will lift it. I would not be surprised if the carousel is a little high now, but it won't be the end of the world.

I shudder every time I see someone lift something with a BS mystery chain they had laying around. OHSA requires tagged chains for lifting for a reason.

IronReb · Mar 29, 2015

ewlsey said:
Looks like they chained around the tool changer mount arm. Must be a light machine if that little reach boom will lift it. I would not be surprised if the carousel is a little high now, but it won't be the end of the world.

I shudder every time I see someone lift something with a BS mystery chain they had laying around. OHSA requires tagged chains for lifting for a reason.

Yep, and who in their right mind stands right in the crush point!

One slip up and his ass hole would have to be sand blasted off that forklift counter weight.

alskdjfhg · Mar 29, 2015

And I though I was a bad rigger........ :nutter:

Big B · Mar 29, 2015

What's with the pickup backed under the semi trailer?

pbungum · Mar 29, 2015

Big B said:
What's with the pickup backed under the semi trailer?

Maybe the truck was the backup plan, in case the mill fell off the trailer. That tonneau cover looks pretty stout...

Country_boy_2007 · Mar 30, 2015

sigh . . . gotta love riggers.

Big B · Mar 30, 2015

That looks like the auction house on 76th street. Is it? If so I must have missed the cnc auction.

M.B. Naegle · Mar 30, 2015

Couldn't that mess up the way trucks in the table as well? I'm not familiar with that machines design but I wonder if gravity and shock would take a toll on them.

ewlsey · Mar 30, 2015

M.B. Naegle said:
Couldn't that mess up the way trucks in the table as well? I'm not familiar with that machines design but I wonder if gravity and shock would take a toll on them.

I can't see hanging the machine precariously being any harder on it that the duty it sees while machining.

CMT John · Mar 30, 2015

If you hadn't shown up, I have no doubt they would have finished "demo derbying" it into place, and nobody would admit anything.

Matt_Maguire · Mar 30, 2015

Looks like the riggers were busy & they hired roofers...

Matt

Onepass · Mar 30, 2015

It's for machining angles...

diyengineer253 · Mar 30, 2015

Holy shat. They clearly don't understand what a precision machine tool is.

ewlsey · Mar 30, 2015

It's just a hunk-a-metal guys.

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