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3rd September 2014, 03:36 PM #1Senior Member
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Delivery costs? - How to get it home?
Hey everyone,
I'm hopefully planning on buying my first bandsaw late this year/early next if the right one comes along.
I'd prefer to go for one of the older used cast iron ones, though i keep running into the same dilemma - If i buy one online from god knows where...how do i get it home?
Our garage is at the bottom of a fairly steep driveway that'd make it hard to back a truck or a trailer into, and i don't have access to a car or a van that'd let me load an extremely heavy old tool into it with any degree of ease....
Has anyone else on here had any experiences dealing with delivery companies, or with getting big stuff like this into awkward sites?
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3rd September 2014, 04:46 PM #2.
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How smooth is your driveway?
If it's smooth enough the first thing I would do when it arrives at the top of the drive is bolt some large HD wheels onto it and use a block and tackle to lower it down the drive. We did this with our mens shed when delivering a large very heavy combination machine and it worked like a charm. While the mechanical advantage was such that it only needed one guy to let out the rope we had two, and two guys walking along side the machine placing piece of wood on the drive half a meter or so in front of the machine wheels.
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3rd September 2014, 05:14 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Piano movers are used to some pretty heavy and pretty interesting shapes, that sometimes literally weigh a ton. We used a piano mover to move a small Heidelberg printing press some years ago after not getting any luck with standard delivery people. Specialists wanted an arm and a leg and were so over the top it was obvious they didn't want the job.
I agree with Bob about the block and tackle, but whatever you do, work out the length of your rope. Nothing worse than getting three quarters down the slippery slope then finding you are running out of rope, don't ask how I know this!
Mick.
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3rd September 2014, 10:52 PM #4
PM me your number and address and I can drop in and check out your situation and advise you on different options. I've had my crane truck in some interesting places
Gotta head up to Kallista over the weekend so I'll be in the area.Cheers
DJ
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3rd September 2014, 11:05 PM #5
My brother bought a very old cast one about 24 or maybe 26 inch, & he picked it up in his trailer.
My other brother bought an old Cast iron Jointer that has a 500mm wide bed about 2.5m long, & that was also less than 1000kg. We also picked that up with a trailer.
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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3rd September 2014, 11:20 PM #6Senior Member
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4th September 2014, 07:41 AM #7
If you hire movers, I'm sure they'll find a way on how to put the bandsaw safely on your garage.
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4th September 2014, 08:29 AM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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how long is the driveway? can consider using a palfinger/hiab, the longest reach is 28m.
My new compressor was delivered yesterday and it wouldnt fit into a standard curain sider with tail lift being at 2.3m x 1.6m x 1m, so I had to use a palfinger/hiab, the cost is triple of the tail lifter, but it was done safely and fastly, I then had to use my own crane to remove the pallet.
the compressor looks small initially thats becasue the truck was huge. The compressor is huge its about 1/2 of the Prado.
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4th September 2014, 06:12 PM #9Senior Member
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4th September 2014, 06:24 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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Nope it's for the mortiser the mortiser manual says it uses 3 x more air than the wide belt when it's in action, bit a surprise but anyhow... This is only a 31CFM FAD 11bar machine.
The Chicago Pneumatic is replacing the hydrovane 43 I have, the hydrovane 43 is better on paper than the replacement in evey aspect and it's 100% duty cycle like a rotary screw ( which I do not need), reason for replacing it is because it is getting old and potential overhaul is a time bomb...
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