TaaaaaDaaaaaaaa....
The machine has landed! Wednesday late afternoon UPS showed up with a 40 footer and a liftgate. Backing up to my garage door was easy and there it was...BIG crate as wide as the trailer almost.
Wider than the raised hinges on the lift gate though...so the recip saw had to come out....cut away one side of the pallet and on to the gate it rolled...sorta.
Heavy s.o.b.! 2300 lbs with the crate and we used a pry bar to overcome the threshold of the trailer...so far so good....we did have the driver back up to the concrete threshold of the garage so the end of the lift would land on it...good thinking if it wasn't for the outwards travel of the lift which made the top of the crate touch the house....no problem, you say and move the truck a couple feet forward...drop the lift,almost, down, truck reverse until lift is just over the threshold and Bob's yer uncle.....
Now this was the first time the lift was actually going lower than a few inches....and UPS, in all it's wisdom, had send, I think, a 1500 lbs liftgate trailer with a 2300 lbs load.....on top of that we estimated the liftgate to be roughly over 250 years old.... it ...uhhh..struggled.
Fear for the whole shebang tipping over we strapped the crate over the back to the lift...and I think that was the only thing preventing the crate to fall flat on it's face! Scary moments...I think, at some point, my wife even yelled my name and that it was tipping over...bless her..
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I was more like...this stuff is repearable and let's go...
My guess is that guys just hide their fear better...hehheh
Lift almost down...truck backing over sheet of osb in front of garage and so you know...7/16 osb is no match for palletjack wheels with 2300 lbs on it....like butter it went through it. (gravel driveway)
Now that's why you always have big pry bars and burly guys ready at hand and after some huffin and puffin the show hit the concrete floor in the garage. Driver dropped it where I'd liked it oriented and I wanted him to wait a little to check if the travel of the lathe went well inside the crate also, but he replied he was in a hurry and had to go....oooook..now I got worried and literally starting to attack the crate.
Big pry bar and whoppa..top came off and quickly glanced inside...what would you have done if the driver said "I gotta go NOW"?
First glance...all ok and it's a white and blue lathe and it's kinda big so it's probably mine.
At that point I had to pee like a russian race horse and when I got back in the quite cold garage my father in law informed me that the crate wasn't nailed together but screwed...so from here on out we took whole panels off and no frantic looking pieces.
There it is...sitting proud on 2 pallets high and I am a happy camper so far!
We did it!!!
ok...as soon as I have a lil more time and figger out how to post pics...they're coming...promise!
John
proud father of a PM1640
update: on the concrete, safe, and cleaned a bit and ran a 240 line to there and hooked up and dro hooked up and played with a lot of handles like a full blown pervert I flipped the breaker on....
Mannnn....it's a "she" now...."she" runs BEAUTIFUL and everything runs like butter....even though it's a "she" now, she's unexpectedly quiet!
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Pics to follow...