Thread: Transporting Panel Saws

Hi Matt

When I had my crane truck I moved several panel saws over the years....your best bet is to look around the area for a guy with such a beast and then arrange the transport from Melbourne, which would most likely be on a semi....so be aware the semi driver will need reasonable access to your street if they are willing to do a door to door delivery. You will need the crane truck to be available for the unloading when the semi arrives. From memory I think the timber bloke in Murwillumbah has a crane truck.
If they will only do depot to depot you can still organise the crane truck to pickup from the depot.

Cheers

John M

Thanks for that John, i had one quote at $1800 which was a bit more than i expected but i'm getting used to the idea!! Can they not be forklifted? I do remember at one place i worked we had a new saw delivered and it came on a crane truck, then i think he used a pallet jack of some sort to bring it into the workshop...

Do you have any idea how much a 3.2m Panel Saw weighs?

or a pallet jack and a furnature truck with a tail lift

Hi Matt
My 3m Lazzari was too much for the delivery truck crane at full stretch so had to be put down at the shed door and I moved it in on pipe rollers. My unit weighs in at 700kgs. Fork lifts can only come in from the side of the saw...so unless you have an extra wide door with plenty of maneuvering room inside and out, will not fit through....same thing applies to a tailgate loader and pallet jack. If you have a concrete apron in front of the shop a pallet jack could be used but will take a bit of maneuvering to get through the door...you will then need crowbars and blocks to get the unit onto the floor....not sure what machine you are talking about, but all the machines I have seen and moved had no more than 50mm ground clearance although some machines do have forklift slots.
$1800 sounds a lot for one item....go down to your local freight forwarder.....will most likely have one in Murwillumbah and get them to sus out a good rate....you have to remember it takes up one third of one side of a semi's tray so that is what you are paying for and Melbourne north is prime rate, not back-loading.

Cheers

John M

Thanks again John.

Really struggling to find someone who specialises in moving machinery, i can't find anyone!! The guy who quoted me the $1800 was very vague and said i would have to forklift it off my end... It's an older Altendorf F90 with 3.2m sliding table. It's a single roller door 4m high and there's no step into the workshop....

Surely there must be someone who does this sort of thing all the time and could sort it out for me.

Matt....looks like your only option is to arrange delivery to a depot close by and then organise transport from there without the pressure of a delivery truck deadline.
Any depot will have a forklift to unload the saw and then is a matter of local transport once the locals see what is needed.
From the pics looks like a sizable complex....do any neighbors have a forklift or do any close by businesses have a fork?

John M

Yeah i'm on an industrial estate so i reckon i can organise a forklift this end.

Cheers, i may have scored through a mate of mine...

I'll keep you posted!1

Matt.

Hi, we just moved Altendorf elmo F45. We forked it to door and had a truck with 2 tonne hiab on the back. It all worked out well. Just make sure you get insurance. The saw weight is 1,100kg for the Altendorf.

Border Expres did a good job for me.
However, they need a commercial yard and fork at both ends.
You'll need to have it boxed/palletised.
You then need to sort out local delivery.

You will need to provide weight and cubic meters to get a competitive quote, or people will quote for the 'unknown'. Quoting for stuffing around an insterstate semi is expensive.

Freight is based on cubic meters, up to a weight. Usually cube is what they go on... ask them for their rate breakdown, so you understand it.

I found that unloading at the local timber/hardware yard worked out for me(the local guys not the chain store) as they have arrangements with local truckies. (Plus... they are usually just interested in the mad shed bloke, as that's their thing too)

Thanks for that mate, in the end i used a company called Aussiewide .::Aussiewide Economy Transport::. Gabbett Machinery use these guys. The guy selling it to me has it on a pallet and wrapped in plastic, and is able to fork it on to a truck. At this end i am using a local forklift driver on the industrial estate. I'm going to buy a pallet jack in case it needs to be shifted around to get it in the door, i wanted one anyway so it's all good.

It was a good score, an Altendorf with a single phase motor in it, and it it still has the original 3 phase motors if i ever go 3 phase.

Matt.

Yay got my Panel saw here now! Didn't need a pallet jack in the end, the forklift driver got it in here no probs. I can recommend Aussiewide if anyone else out there is looking to get machinery moved