thriller007
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Any of you guys on here travel back and forth to fort Mac? I just bought a Craftex CX601 project milling machine and need to get it southern to Calgary.
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I just bought a milling machine but now I have to get it from Fort Mac....
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thriller007
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Found it on Kijiji about about 1/2 hour after it was listed. The guy needed a machine and this one has some electrical problems and won’t run
thriller007
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Sorry down now.
You going to share what you paid for it?
Hard to picture that that thing weights 600 lbs?
PM @Chicken lights he might have some insight as to how to contact a trucker coming out of Mac with spare deck space.
Hard to picture that that thing weights 600 lbs?
PM @Chicken lights he might have some insight as to how to contact a trucker coming out of Mac with spare deck space.
Chicken lights
Forum Pony Express Driver
That thing would be better off on a skid and thrown in a van or straight truck, honestly. Then taken to a cross dock
Or just rent a van and buy a buddy a couple cases of beer.
Weren’t you JUST saying you wanted to go for a road trip?
thriller007
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It was listed for $1500 but bought for $1300. I have a truck but no time. I know the motor runs and the board has been replaced but still not running. I need hold down kit vice and collets now as well.
thriller007
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Here are the specs for it. https://www.busybeetools.com/products/milling-machine-with-digital-readout-cx601.html
looks like
Overall Dimensions: 850mm x 890mm x 1120mm (33.4" x 35" x 44")
Net Weight (approx): 240 Kg, 529 lbs
Shipping Weight (approx): 280 Kg, 617 lbs
historicalarms
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Just google "daily shipping to Ft mac" and I bet you end up with a list as long as your arm, some will surely go all the way to Cowtown.
Chicken is right, have it bolted to a pallet and specify to whomever you hire, to be shipped on an LTL dry van load , you will pay only the sq footage trailer floor space taken up by the pallet, others will pay there share so cost becomes manageable.
tons of building supplies being shipped to Ft. Mac now because of flood damage so a lot of trucks returning to Ed. with no load at all so might even find someone that will haul for a portion of his fuel cost to return to civilization for a "paying load".
Chicken is right, have it bolted to a pallet and specify to whomever you hire, to be shipped on an LTL dry van load , you will pay only the sq footage trailer floor space taken up by the pallet, others will pay there share so cost becomes manageable.
tons of building supplies being shipped to Ft. Mac now because of flood damage so a lot of trucks returning to Ed. with no load at all so might even find someone that will haul for a portion of his fuel cost to return to civilization for a "paying load".
thriller007
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Great! That will be the first thing I will check.
thriller007
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So the trucking company Manitoulen is just a 6 min drive from this guys house. Lives on Beaconhill drive. Anybody on the forum have a truck without a canopy and is close to that? Seller can get an engine hoist to throw in the truck and you just have to drop it off. If so we can work something out?
Colten Edwards
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manitoulen usually have a liftgate on there 5 ton and semi's. if so, just need it put on a pallet as the driver will have a pallet jack
thriller007
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Yes you are right they will pick up at the house. The problem is the pickup at the house, a 6 min drive from the depo costs more then the trip 10 hours south.
thriller007
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The big paperweight is on the way. Shipped Manitoulin. Actually sitting in Calgary since this morning. Will be at its new home tomorrow. Then time to tear into this thing to figure it out.
thriller007
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Well it made it in one piece now I just have to figure out how to get it running but will start a different thread for that.
thriller007
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Ok making some progress. Cabinets ripped out and mill going in. Now I just need a spot to put the stuff that was in the cabinets as well as the welder and compressor. I knew this garage was too small when I built it....
