Ok guys I got a bit of a bonus here at work and found a completely reconditioned 3hp Bridgeport locally that I am seriously lusting after. New DRO and I even have a phase converter that will work somewhere in the attic.
What am I looking at in terms of having it moved ~20 miles in town by a equipment mover.
The only issue is that it has no tooling or collets but for the price that it is going for I can live with that.
I am so not moving this, but both site have tons of access for a roll up truck. But imagine I am going to need a forklift on both sites and I do not have one.
http://steampunkworkshop.com/moving-bridgeport-milling-machine-recreational-rigging
This guy moved his with a toyota minivan and a trailer.
May be able to get a heavy tow truck for lifting? A local rigging company may do it on the side, small potatoes for them.
gofastbobby wrote:
http://steampunkworkshop.com/moving-bridgeport-milling-machine-recreational-rigging
This guy moved his with a toyota minivan and a trailer.
That is exactly what I want to avoid. I want to give someone money and then have them do the work.
I've rented forklifts before, they're not too bad. Like $150 or so plus the delivery fees.
But if you're wanting someone to take care of it for you then call an equipment mover. There's a ton of them around. I would imagine something significantly less than a grand if they have good access and can get wheels under it.
Call local big rig type towing companies. I was surprised to hear they also do rigging around here. One of them set all the steel i-beams for my father's garage build.
tilt bed car hauler w/ winch
three or four pieces of 1" pipe cut to width for rollers to move mill around shop floor
btdt
Call a crane and rigging company. Write the check and let it be their problem. Tell them where is is and where you want it down to the inch.
I don't think I would want to call a tow company. They have a hard enough time moving cars without damaging them.
There are companies that specialize in that. One was at an auction I went to. They wanted about $4-500 to move a Bridgeport 3 miles down the road. I would think that 3 miles or 20 miles would cost about the same. The PITA is loading and unloading it.
The $2800 I spent for professional riggers to move the entire contents of a small machine shop 35 miles was very, very well spent. The came w/ a fork lift, 2 low-boy trailers, and a tiny skid-steer crane and moved everything from the shop to my house, placed all the palletized stuff in the garage and the full size lathe, mill, tons of tooling, horizontal band saw and 1/2 ton of material all in the 1/2 below grade shop.
We started at 7:30 and they left at about 2:30.
Find your local machinery riggers and give them money.
Ask on practical machinist in the general forum, then ping me offline and I'll give you the download on tooling - what to spend lots on and what can be gotten cheap.
If you can find a local mom and pop job shop ask them who they would use. Good way to get some inside connections too, old machinists love their tools!
A rigger is the right way. A tilt bed tow truck is the less right way. DIY is the wrong way, but it's what I did. Turn the head upside down so that the heavy motor is against the table versus way up in the air. Picked it up with a forklift and set it on my car trailer, tied it down with ratchet straps, and unloaded it at my house with a bobcat that had forks.
Dr. Hess wrote:
There are companies that specialize in that. One was at an auction I went to. They wanted about $4-500 to move a Bridgeport 3 miles down the road. I would think that 3 miles or 20 miles would cost about the same. The PITA is loading and unloading it.
I would gladly pay that. I did not know if it was 500 or 1500$. I am debating picking up a rebuilt lathe that they have at the same time if it is cost effective.
This is going to eat up my entire tool budget for 2013 so I just need to get it set in place and running will worry about tooling next year if I can. I have no real need for the DRO, but I think i will in the future, which is a brand new one or two of the power feed or the oil bath system that is on it which all all brand new. So might be able to recoup the cost on that but its not the end of the world for me, or trade for tooling.
I would love a tubing notching setup at some point and the ability to flycut manifolds/heads but really I need to make holes and pockets in larger cast assemblies first and foremost.
mndsm
UltimaDork
10/25/13 12:51 p.m.
Eating up your 2013 tool budget on some badass machinery at the end of October is not a bad thing.
mndsm wrote:
Eating up your 2013 tool budget on some badass machinery at the end of October is not a bad thing.
Well its this or a functioning TIG welder. I have access to those though when I need them.
I have the 51 shoebox going up for sale here in the next week or so and I am going to build a exocet or 818, or start on the 27 gowjob.
If the garage is empty I am going to fill it with tools.
