Thingsthatfly2
Plastic
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2020
So this fall I purchased a fantastic little vf2. low hours well cared for. thing looked new, looking inside the electrical cabinet it was just clean.
I was waiting on the call that the riggers were at the shop I was purchasing the machine from. I had called a few times but no answer and since it was an hour away I wasn't just going to go and wait in the way of the shop I was purchasing the machine from. I had gotten a great deal on the machine since the shop was upgrading.
Riggers show up suddenly at my shop with the machine. They had brought the machine without fixing the axis's or much of any strapping the control unit or anything. They were clearly in a hurry to unload the machine. Rather then moving the blocks and lifting from a wider stance they tried to raise the machine with the forks only inches apart. They lifted the machine up, drove the truck out of under it and as expected as soon as they started to go down the axis slid and the machine toppled off the side.
I was standing back out of the way with the fixtures to secure the axis. The riggers insisted they knew what they were doing. The damage was pretty extensive and the housing had crushed the front of the spindle. It fell from about 5ft plus.
I had them reload the machine on their truck and they wrote me a check for the machine a few days later. They got off cheap compared to the backlog I ended up with since I was expecting to have a machine up and running that day.
Still really sucks because it was a great little machine that I havent been able to find a replacement for even if I spend twice or three times what I had paid for that machine.
I was waiting on the call that the riggers were at the shop I was purchasing the machine from. I had called a few times but no answer and since it was an hour away I wasn't just going to go and wait in the way of the shop I was purchasing the machine from. I had gotten a great deal on the machine since the shop was upgrading.
Riggers show up suddenly at my shop with the machine. They had brought the machine without fixing the axis's or much of any strapping the control unit or anything. They were clearly in a hurry to unload the machine. Rather then moving the blocks and lifting from a wider stance they tried to raise the machine with the forks only inches apart. They lifted the machine up, drove the truck out of under it and as expected as soon as they started to go down the axis slid and the machine toppled off the side.
I was standing back out of the way with the fixtures to secure the axis. The riggers insisted they knew what they were doing. The damage was pretty extensive and the housing had crushed the front of the spindle. It fell from about 5ft plus.
I had them reload the machine on their truck and they wrote me a check for the machine a few days later. They got off cheap compared to the backlog I ended up with since I was expecting to have a machine up and running that day.
Still really sucks because it was a great little machine that I havent been able to find a replacement for even if I spend twice or three times what I had paid for that machine.