magneticanomaly
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Location
- On Elk Mountain, West Virginia, USA
Here is a photo of what I call, "Machinery Skis".
Two pieces of angle iron, long enough to give the thing I am moving an adequately long "wheel-base" for stability and to ride over irregularities, and heavy enough not to bend when they ride over a dip.
Jack up or pry up the legs on one side, at a time, or one edge of the machine and slip one flange of the angle under. Do same on other side, with vertical flanges outboard of the load. Use turnbuckles and chain as needed to pull the ends of the angles together and clamp the machine snugly between the vertical legs of the angles. Attach a chain sling to an end of both angles, and drag, if you want a lot of friction to control the load, or put the skis on pipe rollers. I recently moved a 36"Oliver bandsaw over 50 feet of soft dirt with these, and a comealong.. On the dirt, I put scraps of lumber under the skis every so often to keep them from digging into the dirt, but maintain friction
These work as well as dedicated timber skids bolted to a machine's legs, which I also use and which are often recommended here, but are reusable.
Two pieces of angle iron, long enough to give the thing I am moving an adequately long "wheel-base" for stability and to ride over irregularities, and heavy enough not to bend when they ride over a dip.
Jack up or pry up the legs on one side, at a time, or one edge of the machine and slip one flange of the angle under. Do same on other side, with vertical flanges outboard of the load. Use turnbuckles and chain as needed to pull the ends of the angles together and clamp the machine snugly between the vertical legs of the angles. Attach a chain sling to an end of both angles, and drag, if you want a lot of friction to control the load, or put the skis on pipe rollers. I recently moved a 36"Oliver bandsaw over 50 feet of soft dirt with these, and a comealong.. On the dirt, I put scraps of lumber under the skis every so often to keep them from digging into the dirt, but maintain friction
These work as well as dedicated timber skids bolted to a machine's legs, which I also use and which are often recommended here, but are reusable.
