My new mill finally arrived yesterday around 11 AM. This was a second delivery attempt. RR tried to deliver on Friday but the driver was concerned his lift gate couldn't handle it and decided to have a second attempt at delivery made with another truck.
I planned to use a gantry crane to lift mine since my mobile base is wider than my HF engine lift. Matt and I have passed several emails back and forth on the head room for using a chain lift with the crane. My concern was with having enough room for the lift. The gantry crane rental yard thought the maximum height for the crane was 5'10". Turns out it was almost 8'.
Even with all of the planning, RR threw me a curve ball. They stuck a second much smaller pallet under PM pallet. Groan! I was planning to do the rental today but the second pallet made the mill very unstable. Given the recent seismic activity we have had in NorCal, I decided to proceed forward with the rental yesterday.
Here's a set of pictures of the mill resting on the second pallet:
The weight on the mill when using the lift ring is very forward biased. Ryan commented on this before. I ran out of head room while trying to remove the lower pallet. My HF engine lift allowed me to lift the PM pallet from the front and remove the extra pallet.
Finally, I got the pallet removed and planted the original PM pallet on the ground. Yeah!
Ok...Now it's time for the mobile base.
Done and in the garage!
-Joe
I planned to use a gantry crane to lift mine since my mobile base is wider than my HF engine lift. Matt and I have passed several emails back and forth on the head room for using a chain lift with the crane. My concern was with having enough room for the lift. The gantry crane rental yard thought the maximum height for the crane was 5'10". Turns out it was almost 8'.
Even with all of the planning, RR threw me a curve ball. They stuck a second much smaller pallet under PM pallet. Groan! I was planning to do the rental today but the second pallet made the mill very unstable. Given the recent seismic activity we have had in NorCal, I decided to proceed forward with the rental yesterday.
Here's a set of pictures of the mill resting on the second pallet:
The weight on the mill when using the lift ring is very forward biased. Ryan commented on this before. I ran out of head room while trying to remove the lower pallet. My HF engine lift allowed me to lift the PM pallet from the front and remove the extra pallet.
Finally, I got the pallet removed and planted the original PM pallet on the ground. Yeah!
Ok...Now it's time for the mobile base.
Done and in the garage!
-Joe