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Mike Henry wrote:
I've moved similar tools down to the basement of our townhome, including
a
Clausing 5914 lathe, 8520 knee mill, 8540 and 8550 horizontal mills and a
KO
Lee S714 surface grinder. They weigh between 650 and about 1,000 lbs
each
and all of them were partially disassembled before moving. We could
usually
get by with a 2-wheel fridge dolly, but the base on the surface grinder
proved too heavy for that approach and here's what my wife and I used to
get
that down:

http://member.newsguy.com/~mphenry/base_move.htm

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Very nice Mike. I don't usually recommend dollies or "two wheelers" on
this news group as they generally require a little more knowledge and
strength to control safely. Not knowing people's limitations I usually
suggest the slower methods.

We had a nasty incident with the fridge dolly and the mill base - sometimes
knowledge and strength are not enough. One must also apply the knowledge
and use a bit of common sense!

I thought your move of the machine base was elegant and well thought
out. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay you by the hour.

The local riggers wanted $700-900 to move the lathe downstairs, but only
charged $200 to deliver to the garage. Another member of the group here
helped get it into the basement and we've done a similar move for his
Rockwell lathe. The local rigger didn't want to bother with the grinder
base, though he did offer to loan me a come-along. Another rigger quoted me
$1400 to move the base and that was way beyond my budget. The winch and
frame approach was an amalgam of suggestions from here and a few other
related web fora.

Mike