I am in the market for a press brake currently. I have seen some decent deals a day or two away, but a ltl flatbed will more than likely make them too expensive to be worth the hassle of going out of state with my current budget. I am looking at machines around 10k and under, and adding a $2000 freight expense makes a large enough difference in price. I have a 14k gvw trailer and a 3500 dually I can haul with. The brakes I have been looking at are in the 8,500-10,000lb range, so within the limit of what I can move myself.
I am just wondering from anyone with experience moving press brakes of how stable they will be. Are the brakes center of gravity low enough to be fairly stabIe? I figure the average brake is twice as tall as it is wide (front to back), but I could bring some steel drops the width of the trailer to bolt it to effectively making the base of the machine about as wide as it is tall. I wouldn't want to move an unstable load that far at 55+ mph without having tandem duals on the trailer at the least. (Which I do not)
Open to any thoughts on this. Just kicking the idea around in my head right now. Thanks.
I am just wondering from anyone with experience moving press brakes of how stable they will be. Are the brakes center of gravity low enough to be fairly stabIe? I figure the average brake is twice as tall as it is wide (front to back), but I could bring some steel drops the width of the trailer to bolt it to effectively making the base of the machine about as wide as it is tall. I wouldn't want to move an unstable load that far at 55+ mph without having tandem duals on the trailer at the least. (Which I do not)
Open to any thoughts on this. Just kicking the idea around in my head right now. Thanks.