I picked up a bridgeport series 1 clone at a nearby equipment broker, and they were kind enough to load it on my borrowed trailer with a fork lift, right over the axles. Unfortunately that made it a bit hard for me to unload. We had the great idea to try to drag it to the edge of the trailer using my truck, and were not successful. Fortunately we stopped before catastrophe ensued.
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.
tahwnikcufos 5 days ago
I rolled mine down a tilt trailer on a pallet jack with a come along. Then I just rolled it right in.
madinventor13 4 weeks ago
...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!...
SittingMooseShaman 1 month ago
pull the skid, not the machine...lol did it come off the trailer in one piece?
hdrjunkie 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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.
lexichronicle2 1 month ago
people get killed doing stupid stuff like this.
automan1223 1 month ago
@GnosisMan50 i used a simliar method for a hot tub with pvc ..worked great
dtp5150 1 month ago
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....
GnosisMan50 2 months ago
thats ok it just a clone.
HobbieZones 1 year ago