11-19-2014, 11:11 AM
Last week I put my Grizzly G4003 12x36 lathe on Craig's List and yesterday morning the fellow stopped by to picked it up. This was a good thing as 10 days ago I had ordered a Precision Mathews PM1440E-LB 14x40 and it was to be delivered yesterday afternoon.
Here is the G4003 and "stand".
Of course you need to have the proper tools to do these types of things. Early last week I had checked out Prior Lake Rental and they had a tracked skid steel with pallet forks and trailer available so all I needed to supply was a truck. I stopped by the neighbors to see if I could borrow his 1-ton truck when the time came and he said "Sure, what are you going to use it for?". When I explained it was to get the skid steer he said "Why don't you just borrow a skid steer?". My response was "I didn't know you had one." and "I don't, but my son has one. I'll call him, tell him I need it and then go get it and have it here when you need it."
A great offer in my opinion ...
Yesterday morning the Craig's list buyer stopped by. I happen to have two pieces of 2x6 3/8 wall rectangular tube about 70 inches long in the garage so they were slid on the forks to extend the reach. We then put heavy nylon straps around the lath, reached in the basement door and picked up the old lathe ... not attached to the stand so relatively light ... and carried it out to the buyers trailer. Sorry I don't have pictures of that as I was busy "making it happen".
Relatively quickly the old lathe was on its way.
About 1pm the truck with the new lathe arrived. I had paid for lift-gate service so we did not use the skid steer to unload the lathe from the truck ... a preference to have it "on the ground" before we took responsibility for it. I did feel bad for the truck driver as they had loaded the truck in the wrong order and he had two pallets between the end of the truck and the lathe. He had to unload those two pallets to get the lathe out and then put them back in again. Eventually it was on the ground in the driveway.
Next step was to lighten the load on the pallet as much as possible so the box sides came off ...
... then I took all of the loose stuff off the pallet, removed the tail stock, removed the steady rest and tried to remove the chuck. I am hoping that it was the cold that prevented the spindle Camlocks from moving. None of the Camlocks were in the mood to move so I left the chuck on the spindle. We then started the process of moving the lathe to the basement.
I again was not able to shoot any pictures of the actual movement as (a) I was busy and (b) it was cold so the focus was on completing Phase 1 ... Getting it into the basement and the basement door closed.
More good news followed. When I asked the neighbor how much I owed him for the skid steer rental he said it was not an issue. I had been blowing out his driveway for the last 15 years ... see one of my other links about the transformation of the car into a tractor with a snow blower ... so he just asked me to continue doing that this year. I would have blown the snow even if he had not had access to the skid steer so it all worked out nicely.
Now on to Phase 2, getting it set up and seeing if it runs.
Here is the G4003 and "stand".
Of course you need to have the proper tools to do these types of things. Early last week I had checked out Prior Lake Rental and they had a tracked skid steel with pallet forks and trailer available so all I needed to supply was a truck. I stopped by the neighbors to see if I could borrow his 1-ton truck when the time came and he said "Sure, what are you going to use it for?". When I explained it was to get the skid steer he said "Why don't you just borrow a skid steer?". My response was "I didn't know you had one." and "I don't, but my son has one. I'll call him, tell him I need it and then go get it and have it here when you need it."
A great offer in my opinion ...
Yesterday morning the Craig's list buyer stopped by. I happen to have two pieces of 2x6 3/8 wall rectangular tube about 70 inches long in the garage so they were slid on the forks to extend the reach. We then put heavy nylon straps around the lath, reached in the basement door and picked up the old lathe ... not attached to the stand so relatively light ... and carried it out to the buyers trailer. Sorry I don't have pictures of that as I was busy "making it happen".
Relatively quickly the old lathe was on its way.
About 1pm the truck with the new lathe arrived. I had paid for lift-gate service so we did not use the skid steer to unload the lathe from the truck ... a preference to have it "on the ground" before we took responsibility for it. I did feel bad for the truck driver as they had loaded the truck in the wrong order and he had two pallets between the end of the truck and the lathe. He had to unload those two pallets to get the lathe out and then put them back in again. Eventually it was on the ground in the driveway.
Next step was to lighten the load on the pallet as much as possible so the box sides came off ...
... then I took all of the loose stuff off the pallet, removed the tail stock, removed the steady rest and tried to remove the chuck. I am hoping that it was the cold that prevented the spindle Camlocks from moving. None of the Camlocks were in the mood to move so I left the chuck on the spindle. We then started the process of moving the lathe to the basement.
I again was not able to shoot any pictures of the actual movement as (a) I was busy and (b) it was cold so the focus was on completing Phase 1 ... Getting it into the basement and the basement door closed.
More good news followed. When I asked the neighbor how much I owed him for the skid steer rental he said it was not an issue. I had been blowing out his driveway for the last 15 years ... see one of my other links about the transformation of the car into a tractor with a snow blower ... so he just asked me to continue doing that this year. I would have blown the snow even if he had not had access to the skid steer so it all worked out nicely.
Now on to Phase 2, getting it set up and seeing if it runs.