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40" Metal Lathe, $1500, St. Catharines

@Canadium has it stripped right down. The big lads will probably take a dry lift and see if they can just carry it. I get out the pom poms for such feats of strength and offer encouragement. If it is too heavy for a safe "up and out" we will engine lift it off and move over to the stairs. Trailer will be pulled right up to the door and we can then winch it out up the stairs and onto the trailer. I will make up a stair sled and some rails so it should just carry on up. Base will be similar after a good cleaning.

Once on the scene we will get set and take a few pictures, alter those pictures in a suitable software to bulk us up and make it look easy :)

Some of the lathe is fibre glass (back cover) so we will need to be sure not to bang things around. I have a multitude of moving blankets, straps, chainfalls and come-alongs so we should be fairly set. The trailer is all steel tube and can tilt so that helps at the door.

Wrap it all up snug, drive across town for the off load, set it up as required and vanish into the afternoon.......

Sounds romantic :p
 
Brent H said:
@Canadium has it stripped right down. The big lads will probably take a dry lift and see if they can just carry it. I get out the pom poms for such feats of strength and offer encouragement. If it is too heavy for a safe "up and out" we will engine lift it off and move over to the stairs. Trailer will be pulled right up to the door and we can then winch it out up the stairs and onto the trailer. I will make up a stair sled and some rails so it should just carry on up. Base will be similar after a good cleaning.

Once on the scene we will get set and take a few pictures, alter those pictures in a suitable software to bulk us up and make it look easy :)

Some of the lathe is fibre glass (back cover) so we will need to be sure not to bang things around. I have a multitude of moving blankets, straps, chainfalls and come-alongs so we should be fairly set. The trailer is all steel tube and can tilt so that helps at the door.

Wrap it all up snug, drive across town for the off load, set it up as required and vanish into the afternoon.......

Sounds romantic :p
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Please everyone play safe as I know U will.
 
Yep getting set - welded a 1800 lb winch to the trailer, have a skid sheet for the stairs. Multiple items of lifting power - hoping for no rain.
 
I don't know if PA on sale stuff is Canada wide but the flyer out here has furniture dolly's for $20 each. Bolt one on each end of the lathe and roll away.
VIVA LA THONG!!lol
 
Make it a musical!
“ Thing ..... Thing a Thong..... make it Thimple for all to thing along “
 
YYCHM said:
Hmmmm… 3PM. I wonder how they are making out with the move?
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A happy ending! The lathe is home at my place albeit in a hell of a lot of pieces. Many thanks to Brent and his hard working boys without whom the ending would not have been as good! Thus ends the first chapter of this lathe story and the second chapter of reassembly begins!

Brentand boys.jpg
 
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