Dave,

Go google around, almost everyone agrees it's eayser to do the forklift
thing.
If you go the disassembly route about all you are going to do is take the
swivle head with the ram off the base and thats so off balance it's not
worth the pain.

I did take the table off (most people do) so it can go through a standard
door, but thats easy and two guys and grunt that around.

FWIW the fork lift was only used for 10 minutes to lift it up off the floor
of the trailer.
Did it the classic way, 2x4's on the forks for 'cushions' and lifted under
the ram.
Then drove the trailer forward and lowered the BP onto a dolly.
Rolled it into the shop and did the 'bar up, crib down' dance.
Took less than an hour total.

On "bar up crib down" - I did some searching and might follow. Are you
saying that you used a lever to lift/walk it up onto stacked boards
(1x4+2x4), then somehow removed the dolly, then lifted to remove the
2x4's (one front, one back?), then repeated to remove the 1x4's one at a
time?


Haven't moved the Clausing yet, but the plan is to use the same trailer (too
cheap in my book)
I can borrow a 'cherry picker' engine hoist that will lift it, it's only
#1100, much lower CG, height and balance than the BP. Do the same lift and
drive trailer away, lower onto dolly, roll into place and 'bar up, crib
down'.

I wrestled my mill-drill into place using just a hoist and a lever to
push it over the "cliff" between my driveway and garage floor. Well, I
actually abused the hoise as a dolly by lowering the machine onto 2x4's
across the legs of the hoist, both as a backup support and to keep it
from swinging. I found 670 lb to be quite sufficient One question
about your Clausing: would it be easier to use the hoist to go from
dolly to ground?

FWIW, I bought a $140 engine hoist, and have found various uses for it
since getting the mill.

Bill