I thought I'd share a bit more photo evidence of moving day.
First, I loaded the tractor onto the trailer and headed North:
I dropped the tractor off at
@SightlessSeer 's place and we headed across the city to the NRC.
Next a couple photos just after loading the lathe:
However, we quickly found out that the lathe was too heavy for my front-end loader!
We pulled off the lathe tailstock and chuck, and then the motor, but still could not lift it.
We had both looked up the lathe specs which claimed 2000lbs + 90lb for the extra foot of bed casting.
The tractordata site showed 2200lbs lift for the BL25L fel, however mine is a BL25R.
I did finally find a BL25R manual that claims:
Lift Capacity to Full Height @ Pivot Pins 2089 lbs
Even with those updated numbers I would expect it to work without the tailstock, chuck and motor!
But dang that cast iron base has ~3/8" thick walls.
When trying to lift it would unload the trailer suspension a great deal, but we never saw daylight between the machine and trailer deck. I may need investigate if I have a tired hydraulic pump.......
We did not want to start taking more apart as there is wiring up and down thru both headstock and tailstock bases.
We called it a day and I left my trailer and tractor at his house for the night.
We had thought about ways to gently slide it off the back of the trailer using the tractor and/or our two 2000lb lift engine hoists, but first followed another idea.
@SightlessSeer had noticed a large tractor at a nearby shop, so we stopped by to ask, and we met someone willing to help!
This bigger JD410 had no trouble plucking the lathe off the trailer:
and after a short walk
the lathe was placed on roller pipes just outside its' new home:
Using the Hardinge mill as an anchor we winched the lathe into the shop.
A fun day and a half, even if everything didn't go exactly as planned!
Brian