Question About Moving a CNC Lathe

[Garwood]

I never said I was smarter than anyone. I never said anything about people who do it themselves are wrong. Again, you said that and you are making this about YOU and whatever problem YOU have. Good luck to ya!

Hmm.

You quite literally said exactly that with this-

"Moving your own #10K+ iron is like a NASCAR team hiring the town drunk to be their driver!"

And this-

"Sorry you don't know a professional when you see one. I have more than a clue."

And then you state you never said the things you said like this-

"I never said I was smarter than anyone."

Almost seems like the section of this website dedicated to rigging one's machinery is a poor choice to talk shit about about people that do their own rigging?

 

[Ox]

Looking at your post history it appears you have a half dozen old Hardinge lathes? Is that accurate?

If that's the case that strikes me as a very small level of rigger interaction to form and broadcast a stern opinion about riggers and how other's handle the situation. It's fine to pay riggers. It's a real asshole move to tell others they're incompetent because they do it themselves.

I have hired riggers to move a dozen or more machines over the past 20 years. I have moved 40 times that number of machines myself. 30 tons is my upper limit. At one point, I wrote up my own business plan for starting a full time rigging company because I was doing it so much for profit. The employees I would need made it not pencil out for a fulltime gig at the level of work I was doing.

I have interacted with riggers extensively. Technically I am a professional rigger. I have all the same equipment and play in the same arena. I just don't have fulltime employees.

I know two real good riggers. Guys that know their shit and make the job look easy. Small companies. Always busy. All the bigger outfits are hit and miss and I know why- Because good employees are hard to find and even good ones make mistakes, destroy machines and must be let go or your insurance will let you go. It happens all the time.

Paying for rigging doesn't make you better or smarter than anyone else. It just means you like to play it safe.

Ox's Shop

APT? Automatically Programmed Tools (or some variation on that, different people say different things.) First ansi standard, predates fortran, family-of-parts, what they used to use for progamming airplane parts. It's extremely powerful, more so than most graphical programs, five axis was until...

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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

 

[Garwood]

Ox's Shop

APT? Automatically Programmed Tools (or some variation on that, different people say different things.) First ansi standard, predates fortran, family-of-parts, what they used to use for progamming airplane parts. It's extremely powerful, more so than most graphical programs, five axis was until...

www.practicalmachinist.com

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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

So paying for rigging doesn't mean you like to play it safe- It means you're from the city?

I think there's some truth to that Mr. Ox