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The Eagle Has Landed 
We ordered a milling machine and they sent us a boiler
OK, we found the mill, it was hiding under a tarp.
Another workout for ''Big Orange''. Glad we live on a low traffic country road. No traffic at all during the 5 minute lift, had both lanes blocked. Had to borrow the neighbors driveway to pick it from the back.
Off of the truck
Homeward bound. Slow and easy. Had to use fork extensions.. I really wasn't very comfortable with that, but the front of the machine is pretty light, and the total weight is only about 5000 lbs. Most of the bulk is just sheet metal enclosure, the frame itself is only a bit larger than a BP.
Here is it's new home, a large hole that needs to be filled with something. That's where the router used to sit.
In the shop, finally.
It was trying to slide to the left a bit, not sure why, but we made it. 
This is where we set it down to get it rigged for the next lift. Haas provides lifting points for a top lift so in order to get it into position we will use those, couldn't really do that to get it off of the truck. (BTW, the lathe on the left is almost ready to run )
This pic shows the rigging for the lift, with the tension off, we were a bit busy while it was in the air so didn't get any pics. We really had to keep it tight, there was about 1 inch clearance between the forklift backstop and the roof truss, pretty tight. Lifting on a truck axle laid across the forks and through the swivel eye ring. The spreader is a 4 inch square x 1/4 wall tube. Hass provides a drawing of the spreader dimensions to get the balance correct. The come-alongs were carrying <2000 lbs between them. We had to pick it up and spin it around 180°, but the swivel hook made that easy.
Another view of the rigging.
And here it is sitting in it's new home. It has 3 feet clearance around the back and right side.
We'll get it wired in today (Saturday), should be making chips by Monday.
We ordered a milling machine and they sent us a boiler
OK, we found the mill, it was hiding under a tarp.
Another workout for ''Big Orange''. Glad we live on a low traffic country road. No traffic at all during the 5 minute lift, had both lanes blocked. Had to borrow the neighbors driveway to pick it from the back.
Off of the truck
Homeward bound. Slow and easy. Had to use fork extensions.. I really wasn't very comfortable with that, but the front of the machine is pretty light, and the total weight is only about 5000 lbs. Most of the bulk is just sheet metal enclosure, the frame itself is only a bit larger than a BP.
Here is it's new home, a large hole that needs to be filled with something. That's where the router used to sit.
In the shop, finally.
It was trying to slide to the left a bit, not sure why, but we made it. This is where we set it down to get it rigged for the next lift. Haas provides lifting points for a top lift so in order to get it into position we will use those, couldn't really do that to get it off of the truck. (BTW, the lathe on the left is almost ready to run
)This pic shows the rigging for the lift, with the tension off, we were a bit busy while it was in the air so didn't get any pics. We really had to keep it tight, there was about 1 inch clearance between the forklift backstop and the roof truss, pretty tight.
Lifting on a truck axle laid across the forks and through the swivel eye ring. The spreader is a 4 inch square x 1/4 wall tube. Hass provides a drawing of the spreader dimensions to get the balance correct. The come-alongs were carrying <2000 lbs between them. We had to pick it up and spin it around 180°, but the swivel hook made that easy.Another view of the rigging.
And here it is sitting in it's new home. It has 3 feet clearance around the back and right side.
We'll get it wired in today (Saturday), should be making chips by Monday.
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