Peter,

Is this an OEM motor from the '30s? It might cost a couple hundred bucks
just to ship it! I damn near threw my back out getting mine into my
truck. It must wiegh 100 pounds

I bought a shop crane (Torin Jacks - $140 complete w/ folding legs!) to
handle my mill and now wonder how I ever got along with out it. At 100
lbs, I would be tempted to just lift the thing myself, but if there were
any "up and over" tricks, it would be well worth the time to break out
the crane.

A related technique question for the group: have any of you used a shop
crane/engine hoist to flip something? I managed to assemble and flip my
table saw myself, and before I had the crane. The essential tricks were
deviating from instructions (they wanted me to install a wheel that
would have been toast had it been in place at the time), and an
improvised wood stop that allowed me to concentrate on lifting instead
of lifting and turning. The plan was to try it, aborting at the first
sign of trouble; it really wasn't too bad. The motor was not attached
which helped some. Is there a safe way to do something like that using
a shop crane?

Bill