Moving my new "little" lathe

[fizzy]

Yep, that machine is a almost direct copy of a Hardinge HC 'chucker' lathe. Based on the Harding HLV that I have. I see you have a copy of the manual so I don't need to tell you that you lift them via the suds tray. The reason why you can't lift them by the bed is not because it'll damage the bed, it's because the bed is not solidly mounted to the cabinet, it's on sprung-loaded fittings and the cabinet isn't supposed to hang on them.

These are one of the few lathes that don't need levelling to ensure the bed has no twist - it's so sturdy that it couldn't twist. P.S. you might find that one of the feet on the cabinet (rear right on the Hardinge IIRC) is a screw-in foot which you can adjust to stop it wobbling on the floor.

You're right they are bloody heavy. 2-man lift to pick up the bed alone. The bare cabinet I could just load into my van for shot blasting.

I collected mine on a trailer and used a tirfor to pull it up the ramp.

I wish mine was the conventional lathe but then again it would have been 10x the price.
I am going to build a custom pallet for it. Do you think I should make it big enough for the feet to rest on the pallet or slightly smaller so the feet overhang? If they were all removable I would just take them off. More stable on a pallet with the whole base flat.

 

[fizzy]

Surrey, ask Kim to collect for you?
I’m run off my feet at the minute and as you say no way to lift onto a trailer without it being a headache.

Its 195 miles each way to me not cheap!
If the bloke had a forklift it would be going via us on a pallet!

 

[fizzy]

Reason it is so cheap got to be gone by Friday he has a brand new Matsura 5 axis coming
Drooling!

 

[Matchless]

Bigger van?

took the wheels off the trailer, tubes under the lathe, rolled it onto the back of the trailer, then dragged it up the 3mm stainless floor, jacked the trailer up and put the wheels back on,

 

[Screwdriver]

When I have faced that problem before (Harrison M250) I used an engine hoist and a stack of pallets. Just lifted it up one pallet height at a time. Getting it up to the height of the van bed is the only problem. Then a few scaff pole rollers makes it easy to push around.

 

[fizzy]

I have moved my Elliott Sturdimill on rollers several times just worried about damaging a sheet steel lathe cabinet.

 

[Pete.]

If the cabinet is anything like the Hardinge one you ain't gonna damage it. It's like 3mm rolled steel.

As for the feet I'd cut some plywood donut rings to go around them

 

[Screwdriver]

With any luck the feet will simply unscrew. Chances are though for that amount of weight, as @Pete. suggests, it's probably built like a battleship.

 

[addjunkie]

Hire a lilting or a plant trailer, and roll it on tubes pulling with a chain block or ebven a ratchet strap.

 

[Hopefuldave]

Camberley Surrey.

If it's pickup Friday or next weekend, give me a shout if you want a hand in my home town...

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[fizzy]

Hire a lilting or a plant trailer, and roll it on tubes pulling with a chain block or ebven a ratchet strap.

Sadly nothing to tow a trailer with at the moment. Everything is offroad literally

 

[fizzy]

If it's pickup Friday or next weekend, give me a shout if you want a hand in my home town...

Dave H. (the other one)

Wed or Thu sadly but thanks anyway!

 

[Ton-up]

All you keep saying when you comment on your courier deliveries is about taillifts, so cant you can hire a tailift van?

Take a jack (even a trolley jack and a piece of 3x2 under the coolant tray), lift it up on blocks, put a pallet under it and use a pallet truck.

 

[fizzy]

All you keep saying when you comment on your courier deliveries is about taillifts, so cant you can hire a tailift van?

Take a jack (even a trolley jack and a piece of 3x2 under the coolant tray), lift it up on blocks, put a pallet under it and use a pallet truck.

Tail lift vans are only rated to 500kg.
If it was palletised I would get the local depot to pick it up for me as an 18 tonner tail lift will carry 1000kg.
As it is NOT palletised I have to drive 195 miles to palletise it. As I am in a van it would be a shame to come back empty handed.
But if we do get stuck then I always have the option of leaving it there and getting it collected the following day.

 

[winchman]

You need winchboy.
I had a good tidy up and made room in the garage, Came home and he had popped out and bought a motorbike and side car, brought it home in a VW Polo and filled my gap!

 

[Hopefuldave]

I have no problem of loading/unloading a van at a mate’s yard - he has a teleporter.

Is there a local farmer who could help? Then it would just be the lesser problem of getting it on a pallet?

Not that many farmers around Camberley, it's a bit... suburban? Posh? boring?
There area few industrial estates, maybe with forklifts, no "heavy" engineering though.

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Can't you lift it with an engine hoist? I have a huge Sealey 2,000kg one and i've used it to lift my toolbox and many other heavy things into the back of Sprinters.

 

[brightspark]

4 ten foot scaffie boards 2 for under the lathe and 2 for ramp to van and 4 scaffie pole rollers and a couple of beer crates to go under the middle of the ramp and some rope will p...ss it no bother . I can get my real heavy diesel whacker plate in to the back of a tranny easily with rollers

 

[Nomad]

I watched a mate load the shell of a car into the back of a Luton single handed, just using scaffy boards & a winch tied to the van bulkhead. Work smarter not harder