Moving day!
We arrived at the seller’s place at 1300h. First we set-up Dabbler’s gantry crane and moved the mill into position inside the shop. We had just enough headroom below the opened garage door.
With the mill all the way up, the trailer just slipped underneath the raised machine.
Once on the deck, we blocked the base in with wood to stop any movement during the road trip.
We strapped the upper part of the main column to the four corners of the trailer frame. Also ran two straps across the base to securely hold it down. Disassembled the gantry crane, loaded it and the genie lift (it was used to set the heavy cross beam on top of the gantry legs) back on the trailer, and secured all those items with additional straps.
At 1600h we were ready for the road.
A short 30 min later we arrived back at my place. I just parked the whole thing in the garage for the night.
Off loading will be happening tomorrow. Basically the reverse of the loading process: assemble the gantry, set the cross beam to the correct height, lift the machine just clear of the trailer deck, drive the trailer out from underneath it, lower to the ground onto blocks so that I can use a pallet jack to move the KF2 into the shop. Return the crane to @Dabbler and the trailer to @kevin.decelles. Job done.
Oh, here is a little something else that followed me home...
We arrived at the seller’s place at 1300h. First we set-up Dabbler’s gantry crane and moved the mill into position inside the shop. We had just enough headroom below the opened garage door.
With the mill all the way up, the trailer just slipped underneath the raised machine.
Once on the deck, we blocked the base in with wood to stop any movement during the road trip.
We strapped the upper part of the main column to the four corners of the trailer frame. Also ran two straps across the base to securely hold it down. Disassembled the gantry crane, loaded it and the genie lift (it was used to set the heavy cross beam on top of the gantry legs) back on the trailer, and secured all those items with additional straps.
At 1600h we were ready for the road.
A short 30 min later we arrived back at my place. I just parked the whole thing in the garage for the night.
Off loading will be happening tomorrow. Basically the reverse of the loading process: assemble the gantry, set the cross beam to the correct height, lift the machine just clear of the trailer deck, drive the trailer out from underneath it, lower to the ground onto blocks so that I can use a pallet jack to move the KF2 into the shop. Return the crane to @Dabbler and the trailer to @kevin.decelles. Job done.
Oh, here is a little something else that followed me home...
