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micor cut lathe 14 X 40 Calgary asking 6000$
- Thread starter Dabbler
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Tom O
Ultra Member
Well tomorrow is the big day thanks to Rudy and Dabbler I’ve got a drop deck trailer from Sunbelt rentals for $185. With all the extra charges it’s a bit big @ 14 foot all their 12 footers were spoken for this week so just like Christmas one more sleep!
here’s a link to Sunbelt.
https://www.sunbeltrentals.com/loca...1LWxvY2F0aW9uLmdvb2dsZV93ZWJzaXRlX292ZXJyaWRl
here’s a link to Sunbelt.
https://www.sunbeltrentals.com/loca...1LWxvY2F0aW9uLmdvb2dsZV93ZWJzaXRlX292ZXJyaWRl
Good luck, be safe. Take pictures.
So? How did it go?
Tom O
Ultra Member
I’m really impressed with the drop deck although a 14 footer was a bit large for a 71 inch lathe but worked a dream. Once home the fun started as there is quite a drop from the garage floor to the alley but blocking one side of the ramp made it close to level but getting hard to roll at times on mating surfaces, unfortunately on one of those occasions a good push got my forearm caught between the headstock and another machine protruding 4 1/2‘ from the floor giving me a nice flap about 2” so things got shut down and John drove me to emerg where it was cleaned and stitch back where it lives lol. But the lathe is in place and my Son and I took it off the dollies and put it on the leveling pads today we’ll level it tomorrow.
So there you have it thanks for the help loading and unloading I should have been more careful about my surroundings “but that’s why we do these tests”
So there you have it thanks for the help loading and unloading I should have been more careful about my surroundings “but that’s why we do these tests”
John Conroy
member
You know it's your machine when it has some of your DNA stuck on it.
Tom O
Ultra Member
That’s true I’ll have to thank it for waiting till it was almost in place lol, thinking about how it came to be though I would have to say it probably wouldn’t have happen if I had my baseball cap off I would have seen the protruding chip conveyor rather than a open space beneath it.
Truth to be told - all four of us have a responsibility in creating the situation that ended in the injury. After moving 15 or 16 machines, this is the first (and hopefully last) injury. Thank goodness it is a somewhat minor thing that will heal completely! It sure looked far worse in the moment, and I'm thankful Tom will be okay once it has healed.
All four of us? Who all was involved with the move?
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