Lathe Moving Help South SF Bay Area

[matthewsx]

Anyone available to help me get a lathe from Gilroy to my home in Santa Cruz? There are two machine skates on-site, I will rent a trailer to pull behind my pickup truck but any assistance would be great between now and next Sunday.



I'll feed you well, or can pay cash if that's what it takes.

John

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[Mtnmac]

Anyone available to help me get a lathe from Gilroy to my home in Santa Cruz? There are two machine skates on-site, I will rent a trailer to pull behind my pickup truck but any assistance would be great between now and next Sunday.

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I'll feed you well, or can pay cash if that's what it takes.

John

Sorry for the cross-post admins, just don't know how many people read the whole forum.

 

[Mtnmac]

I can help. I do have some rigging stuff that may be useful too. Any day except Friday works for me.

 

[matthewsx]

I can help. I do have some rigging stuff that may be useful too. Any day except Friday works for me.

Great, I have a drop deck trailer reserved for tomorrow and am planning on picking it up after work around 5:30pm in Gilroy.
Another member has also volunteered and I bought my engine hoist yesterday.
John

 

[Mtnmac]

Great, I have a drop deck trailer reserved for tomorrow and am planning on picking it up after work around 5:30pm in Gilroy.
Another member has also volunteered and I bought my engine hoist yesterday.
John

Sounds good. When and where to meet?

 

[matthewsx]

Sounds good. When and where to meet?

I’ll pm you later with details but Gilroy tomorrow at 5:30pm is the big picture.
Jkhn

 

[matthewsx]

Wow!!!!!

What can I say, we have such an awesome group here. From making a deal on Saturday to getting it home today, you guys rock

I can definitely say moving a 1500lb lathe is best done with a crew of three and a drop deck trailer too, reading all the machine move stories here might have prepared me a little bit but having the help of two guys who have done it before is definitely the only way it could have happened so smoothly.

I'll post up more pictures of my project (and it really is a project) soon but here's the first one.



Thank you again, your help means more than I can say....


John

 

[DavidR8]

Congratulations on your new lathe John!


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[brino]

Congratulations to the whole team!
This group is the best.
-brino

 

[SLK001]

Is that the cross-feed drive bar that is bent?