Would a skip lugger be able to transport it?
Is that the guy on eBay i have seen his adverts.
Do him and your self a big favour and go and buy a few lifting slings from toolstation.
The chains in the photo are straight on to a screw and digging into the machine ways, a sure fire way to damage a machine.
No worries about teaching me to suck eggs lol I would tackle most things in life myself but this is a bit beyond a ton of lathe up in the air to get it on the back of the waggon killing me though that I haven't the confidence to do it.but if I tried and dropped the sons first lathe his mum will kill me lolBuy your own strops as above and attach them in advance.
You should also get the other end and prep it as much as you can in other ways. Take the tailstock off, lock the saddle, remove the toolpost and chuck and sling them in the boot of a car. On my lathe if I feed the strop down between the ways, and round a structural part of the casting then back out between the ways it can't roll and fall over, then just something to the rear to counterbalance it to keep it level. I personally would avoid doing any lifting near the spindle...
I dropped my first lathe before working the strapping out, it fell handwheel face down into the garden. I felt sick but when we hoisted it back onto its base, it hadn't got damaged, and instead had just left handwheel shaped imprints into the grass.
You may know the above, in which case apologies for teaching you to suck eggs but its worth mentioning.
Is that the guy on eBay i have seen his adverts.
Do him and your self a big favour and go and buy a few lifting slings from toolstation.
The chains in the photo are straight on to a screw and digging into the machine ways, a sure fire way to damage a machine.
Yes thinking a engine crane wouldn't be a bad idea to have when the lathe inevitably gets a frashen up /refurb.great link to lathes.co.uk moving a lathe some good examples of what you can and shouldn't do always helpful.Having recently done this, I can safely say it's a lot less painful than you might think. This is an excellent link:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/lifting-a-lathe/
I broke my Bantam down into bits, moved the bedway, then the tray and finally the cabinet. I was unsure about buying an engine crane but it's turned out to be an excellent purchase - the lathe is very heavy and if/when you come to restore it you will need to move things about. The crane makes that simple and as a bonus you can still use your back afterwards!
Progress is the manufacturer but no info on the net so took chance on it but it's really well built and solid mc.after giving it a good once over glad we went for this though it's a bit longer than we need at 2.2 metres long but should do every thing we want and more will go back to the seller and give them a nice bottle of wine and beers as he has been very generous and gave my son all the cutting tools he had.Nice lathe. The removable bedway section allows you to turn larger diameter stuff. Who is the manufacturer?