Thread: How to move a tablesaw - ST250?

Originally Posted by Felder

George - are you in Sydney? If so PM me to borrow machine moving equipment!

D'oh, thankyou for the offer but I'm in Brisbane. I went to a hire place where they have a manual forklift gadget. It has two wide wheels at the rear and two wheels under the lifting arms - just like a forkfilt. Its weight capacity is 600kg. I think I'll take advice given and make/modofy a pallet and attach it to that. If only I lived closer to work, there is a forklift there.

I used to own a Triton and still have a few Triton bits left, they can be folded away and put in the trailer, around the table saw once it's on the trailer.

Thankyou for the help...

Originally Posted by Groggy

I could help if you were in either one of the two cities I frequent, but -.-. .-.. .- -.-- ..-. .. . is just too far to drive.

Sorry for the morse code, it's a little easier to read now...

Thanks to everyone for the offers of help to move my tablesaw, I had some ideas and in the end I got "Send Australia" to move both the Tablesaw and Jointer. If anyone needs sensitive/specialist moving done - call them. I dismantled the sawtable as much as I could and they wheeled their hand trolley in, strapped it on and away they went and up into their van using a hydraulic lifter.
Then it was a matter of getting power connected to the shed, this was done last weekend and final moving from my old garage into my new shed has now taken place. All I need to do now is set it all up as I have a table on order and, our mortgage broker after a few pieces and then of course there are things to build for the new house...

Congrats on the new place... happy WW'ing mate!

As Harry said congratulations on the new place George, You will have to show us some pics of the new workshop once you have it all set up and of your projects.

I look forward to getting it all up and running then proudly showing it off.

George
(et al)
Why not HIRE a lifter...?
Ey...!!
Cheers
Jedo

Hi Just George , Sorry all to drag up an old post but...
I ordered my ST-250 from H&F who promised to deliver it to the wharf at Burnie , so today I got a call from the wharf at Devonport " your box is here " Oh. i thought how am I going to get that 250-350 kg ( depending on who you listen to )monster home . After frantic calls to friends and also the local bottle shop " can I borrow your forklift ?" the friendly blokes at patricks rang back and said " we've been thinking about your problem and for a small fee will bring it over with a tail lifter ute and bring a pallet mover so we can site it in your workshop "
Tasmania has got it for friendly service . I am very relieved and look forward to seeing it in my shed .
Problem solved thanks to Patricks blokes who have gone out of their way to help .
Rick

No problem Rick, when I bought mine I had a ute. They put it on the back with a forklift, at the other end I undid the box and took it off piece by piece. I had help to lift the rest off, it ended up being put top down until the weekend when I got to assemble it. I hope not to have to move it again. Although, I hope to build another shed in my backyard this year or next and then it'll be moved again. That won't be bad as it won't have to be lifted onto a truck or ute and strapped down. It'll just be moved to where there will be MORE space...

It is quite interesting what you can get at the hire shop these days.

however

If you wanted to "Soundman's goodies inc" could supply you a nice new 1400KG engine lifter for $299 inc GST delivered in bris.
folding legs....swiveling hook a lifts near 3M with the boom out.
Nice.

Exador baught one off me before christmas & he's quite happy with it.

Once the cleanup is finished round here one is comming to stay.

A common mod for these is to retro fit the 8T ram inplace of the 3 or 4T one they come with.
It needs to be said you then have to be a bit carefull.
the 1400kg ones are quite a bit beefier and have more lift than the 1000kg ones you see arround.

cheers

Sort of on the subject, but has anyone used one of these engine cranes to lift a boat motor off a transom? If so, how did you rig it so the motor stays put? I can imagine it tipping and falling to the floor. Ouch.

As with lifting anything, it all about how you sling it.

I gather you are talking about a decent sized outboard.

You probaly need to find a couple of points arround the base of the cowling

or choke a couple of slings arround under the top of the leg casting just above the mount. you want to be able to manipulate the mount freely.

then choke a sling around the prop end of the leg and use a ratchet tie down or a rope back arround the hook to controll the swing.

basicaly a good solid two point load carying sling arrangemant with additional controll line.

adjust till it slings properly then lift.
the controll sould be positive not relying on balance.



cheers

Soundy,
does Soundman Inc. sell any of those manual walky/stacker forklift gizmos? Might be interested in one sometime down the track if I can'tsnag a cheap forklift.

Mick

Don't think I can lay my hands on a small forklift right off.

All sorts of garage type lifting things no prob, but little fork.... Hmmmm
I'll rattle a few cages.

cheers