Scott,
We've moved our shop a couple of times and we've always had to use
heavy machinery movers. They come out with a fork lift and a low boy
(Semi-trailer made for very heavy loads). They do this stuff all the time
and are usually pretty fast and efficient, I'd call around to some places
in your area that sells used machinery and ask them who's reasonable.
Regarding your driveway, it depends on the thickness of the slab and
if the original builder bothered to put steel in it. If it's a regular
concrete
drive in a track home setting, I'd be very careful about distributing the
load as much as possible.
Don Tiana
Topanga Cyn., CA.
dstiana@juno.com
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:45:08 -0400 (EDT) Scott Hall
<sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> writes:
>
> at last, I found a nice older mill that's reasonably local to me,
> reasonably local being several hundred miles. the price is decent
> and the
> thing works okay, so I'm getting it.
>
> but--I'm stuck on how to move it. it weighs ~8 tons. that's right,
> about
> 16,000 pounds (so sayeth the owner). now, um, that's a little more
> than
> I know what to do with. I'm not, in fact, even sure how to
> transport
> it--I moved a lathe twice on the back of a flatbed tow truck then
> used
> pipes and two engine hoists to get it in/around the garage, but I
> don't
> see that happening here. I can't imagine what kind of truck short
> of a
> semi transport could handle that kind of weight, and even if I had a
> truck, I'm not sure how to get it on or off, nor how to manuever it
> to
> its new spot.
>
> I do seem to recall seeing flatbed tow trucks that were big enough
> for two
> cars, and I was thinking that perhaps if the truck's designers had
> planned
> to move two *really* big cars (like, um, hummers, or something), and
> *then* had added some capacity on top of that, I might just be able
> to use
> one of those. but so far I haven't turned up a company that has
> one, or
> knows how much they can handle.
>
> so, somebody please tell me they've done something like this before
> and
> know just how to make it go down. until now, I'd been worrying
> about
> having enough power to run it and considering whether it might crack
> the
> slab in my garage. now I'm not sure how to get it there.
>
> scott
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