One wrong way to unload a bridgeport clone from the trailer

[tahwnikcufos]

When I unloaded mine from a trailer identical to this one, I chain the skid to the hitch on another truck, and with the trailer still attached to the first truck - pulled out from under the mill far enough to pick it up with a cherry picker. Then just pulled away, and moved it around with a pallet jack, like the other commenter.

[madinventor13]

I rolled mine down a tilt trailer on a pallet jack with a come along. Then I just rolled it right in.

[SittingMooseShaman]

...glad to read catastrophe had not ensued...all i could see from the thumb-nail was it falling and cracking the motor housing and crane...yikes!...

[hdrjunkie]

pull the skid, not the machine...lol did it come off the trailer in one piece?

[lexichronicle2]

When I was 17, I helped move a 1ton drill press with a 60y/o metal worker and some others. I was told to stay well away and was helping pick up ropes or open and close things. The older guy still instinctively had his hand resting on the casting, to balance or catch it. Realistically, there's not a chance he'd have made any difference to it had it started to topple, it'd have flattened him. His younger son was there and had to tell him to let go of it himself. Everyone needs some help sometimes.

[lexichronicle2]

I'd have been most worried about it when it reached the edge, and had a pivot point to topple on.

I'm not disliking the video though. The title is 'wrong way' and the guy's undoubtedly uploaded it knowing people will complain, but hoping to demonstrate why it's not a great idea for others.

[automan1223]

people get killed doing stupid stuff like this.

[GnosisMan50]

better the car than him.....

In ref to the video, he ought to have placed a few 1" pipes underneath the mill and moved it that way without the car....

[dtp5150]

@GnosisMan50 i used a simliar method for a hot tub with pvc ..worked great

[HobbieZones]

thats ok it just a clone.

[kingmike40]

I have a customer who bought a mill/drill. He loads it in his pickup but doesn't tie it down correctly. When he was driving home with the machine he stops and the mill falls on to the cab of his almost new 4 door pickup crushing the cab and smashing the rear window. I guess it caused 3000 to 5000 of damage.

[TalksWithDirt]

D00d, crowbar, or a come along. Never do big moves with heavy machines. And stabilize the trailer with jacks. You could have hurt yourself bad.