CentexMachineShop
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2020
- Location
- Bastrop
Howdy Yall,
I have gotten pretty good mileage out of everyone else's posts. Just now getting reliable internet out at the ranch where my job shop and hydraulic repair shop is located. I intend to contribute to the forums, participate as I can.
I am posting a few pics of how my brother (business partner) and I moved a big old lathe, 9979 lbs. of it, courtesy of Mr. Oder, for use in our shop, of which it has become quite useful, busy most days sometimes Sunday. I am hoping perhaps our Sanford and Sons methods may inspire anyone else in their endeavors.
Our initial plan was to put the Lodge and Shipley up on the homemade 6.625" dia wheels, sch 80 3.5" axles, haul it across a public road and winch it up onto the 32ft gooseneck. Plans changed and we rented a (supposedly) 14K gvwr drop deck, necked it right up to the slab. It's limits were pushed on the scrape from Houston and some hydraulic assisted straightening had to be done late in the evening before taking the trailer back to Sunbelt in the wee hours the next morning. Return inspection was a success, more so an oversight.
The whole combination was left bolted to the lathe on the trip home, point loaded the trailer up pretty good I reckon. Tongue weight was iffy even on the F-550. Unloaded the 1917 in a rolling fashion and did a little touching up of it, cosmetically mostly, did the ferrous shuffle and got it in situ, compliments of the New Holland L228 and some clapped Harrington lever hoists. Wheel set is out behind the shop now, up on the rack. Might have a call back to duty someday, call them an accoutrement of old 19447. Was a pleasure meeting Mr. Oder, hosting us two, and giving us an experienced hand in getting 19447 loaded up.
I have gotten pretty good mileage out of everyone else's posts. Just now getting reliable internet out at the ranch where my job shop and hydraulic repair shop is located. I intend to contribute to the forums, participate as I can.
I am posting a few pics of how my brother (business partner) and I moved a big old lathe, 9979 lbs. of it, courtesy of Mr. Oder, for use in our shop, of which it has become quite useful, busy most days sometimes Sunday. I am hoping perhaps our Sanford and Sons methods may inspire anyone else in their endeavors.
Our initial plan was to put the Lodge and Shipley up on the homemade 6.625" dia wheels, sch 80 3.5" axles, haul it across a public road and winch it up onto the 32ft gooseneck. Plans changed and we rented a (supposedly) 14K gvwr drop deck, necked it right up to the slab. It's limits were pushed on the scrape from Houston and some hydraulic assisted straightening had to be done late in the evening before taking the trailer back to Sunbelt in the wee hours the next morning. Return inspection was a success, more so an oversight.
The whole combination was left bolted to the lathe on the trip home, point loaded the trailer up pretty good I reckon. Tongue weight was iffy even on the F-550. Unloaded the 1917 in a rolling fashion and did a little touching up of it, cosmetically mostly, did the ferrous shuffle and got it in situ, compliments of the New Holland L228 and some clapped Harrington lever hoists. Wheel set is out behind the shop now, up on the rack. Might have a call back to duty someday, call them an accoutrement of old 19447. Was a pleasure meeting Mr. Oder, hosting us two, and giving us an experienced hand in getting 19447 loaded up.