Buying a Lagun mill... how do I move this thing?

[joec2000]

I picked up the Lagun mill today and everything went super smoothly. Here's what seemed to work best...
1. Use johnson bar to get mill elevated so that 2x 4x4s could fit underneath
2. Use pallet jack to wheel lifted mill onto a rented drop trailer (finding a drop trailer to rent was the hardest part of this job!)
3. Use advice in this thread to strap mill to the drop trailer
4. Drive home
5. Unstrap and with some pushing and gravity, the mill is safely on machine skates on my concrete garage floor.

This mill is actually in better shape than I thought, just very dirty from sitting unused for years. With some elbow grease, the original scraping marks are starting to show again. Not a single mark on the table or vice... everything was just really "stiff" from sitting. The one shot lube system doesn't seem to work - the level just flops in the breeze and doesn't pump any oil. I posted an inquiry on that in the Lagun-specific form.

Thanks everyone for all of your help! Gonna start looking at VFDs tonight

- Joe

 

[woodchucker]

I picked up the Lagun mill today and everything went super smoothly. Here's what seemed to work best...
1. Use johnson bar to get mill elevated so that 2x 4x4s could fit underneath
2. Use pallet jack to wheel lifted mill onto a rented drop trailer (finding a drop trailer to rent was the hardest part of this job!)
3. Use advice in this thread to strap mill to the drop trailer
4. Drive home
5. Unstrap and with some pushing and gravity, the mill is safely on machine skates on my concrete garage floor.

This mill is actually in better shape than I thought, just very dirty from sitting unused for years. With some elbow grease, the original scraping marks are starting to show again. Not a single mark on the table or vice... everything was just really "stiff" from sitting. The one shot lube system doesn't seem to work - the level just flops in the breeze and doesn't pump any oil. I posted an inquiry on that in the Lagun-specific form.

Thanks everyone for all of your help! Gonna start looking at VFDs tonight

- Joe

I guess this is all a lie... I don't see any pictures ....
with out pics... it didn't happen. That's the rule dude.

 

[joec2000]

Lol alright, let me go get a USB cable to download from my phone... stand by

 

[joec2000]

Ask and ye shall receive... I didn't take too many pics of the actual move, since I was trying to keep things moving along out of respect for my helpers' time, but the pics prove it was actually moved

This thing was a classic barn-yard find at $3,500. Beautiful condition under the crud. Maybe 0.015" of backlash on the X, almost none on the Y and Z.

 

[7milesup]

Awesome! Congrats!

 

[G-ManBart]

Looks pretty darned good!

 

[joec2000]

I read somewhere that the Lagun uses M8x1.00 fittings. Couldn't one just buy adapters to convert over to 5/16x24 or am I oversimplifying it?

 

[stupoty]

I read somewhere that the Lagun uses M8x1.00 fittings. Couldn't one just buy adapters to convert over to 5/16x24 or am I oversimplifying it?

Thats M8 fine , stuff should be available with that thread , what can't you find ?

Stu

 

[joec2000]

I am weighing the options between fixing the Intza pump I have vs swapping over to what seems to be the much more popular choice, Bijur. The readily available Bijur pumps seem to have 5/16x24 thread, so looking at options to swap over to that.

I have emails into Lagun and Intza about repair options for the pump I have, but not expecting to hear anything super cost effective compared to the price of a new Bijur.

 

[Smithdoor]

Hello everyone!

I started another thread here to solicit help on choosing my first mill. I think I've found one and now I need to figure out how to move it. The mill I am looking at is either a Lagun FT-1S or FT-2 ser # 19846. I need to get with Lagun tomorrow w/ the correct serial number for confirmation of what this mill is. Lagun seemed to think it was a FT-2 from the pics. Regardless, I believe this mill clocks in at >2000 lbs. Seller is asking $3500 and with a few small exceptions, the machine seems to be in good shape overall, but hasn't been used in several years so is pretty dirty. Now, onto moving it...

Some pertinent information:

• It is located approx 40 mins away from me in the seller's detached home work shop.
• The mill is sitting directly on a concrete floor (not on a palate or anything like that)
• The seller has a large front end loader that can be used to lift the mill onto a trailer, but the front end loader won't fit in the workshop to pick the mill up. The doors to the workshop are 12' x 12', but the front end loader is bigger than that.
• The seller has several palate jacks that can be used to move it around inside the workshop if necessary
• The mill has what looks to be a factory lifting eye/hook
• I have a 1500 class pickup truck and was planning to rent a drop trailer and a palate jack for transportation home. Might be able to talk the seller into letting me borrow one of his palate jacks.
• The mill is going into my home workshop (2 car attached garage) at the top of a slightly sloped, textured concrete driveway
• I have a friend that was a mover in a previous life and has moved heavy things, but never a mill. He offered to help with this.
• I have absolutely no experience doing this. I don't own any heavy lifting equipment.

I need figure out a way to:

1. Lift up the mill - either onto a palate that I would need to build or onto gas pipe to roll it
2. Get it outside the seller's workshop where the loader can pick it up and drop it onto a trailer

From there, I can drive it home, back the trailer up the driveway to the edge of my garage apron and just role it on pipe there, or if I go the palate route, use the rented palate jack to move it around.

I have never done anything like this before... could a couple of guys "push" the top of the mill to tilt it slightly to get pipe under it or does something need to lift it off the ground to get the pipe under it? If I have to lift it anyway, might as well go the route of the palate, no? If I go the route of the palate, can the mill stay on that permanently to allow me to move it easier in the future if needed? Hopefully these questions demonstrate how badly I need advice here.

Thanks,

- Joe

I like forklift the best.
I have move with a tilling a tractor trailer and rollers with a winchand bars.

Dave