When I got my unisaw (drive by), I lured several of my son's friends using pizza.
Four strapping teens made short work of unloading and moving the saw around
(although it isn't in a basement).

Grant



Charlie Self wrote:

Chuck Roteck asks:

Ordered mine today, and it is supposed to be delivered next Thursday.
Could you please answer a question for me?

You indicate that it came encased on a pallet, but how heavy and bulky is
the heaviest piece (I'm assuming it doesn't come fully assembled)? I'm
guessing that Sears will drop it off in the garage, or even the driveway,
and I will have to get it to the basement workshop. I assumed I would
uncrate it in the garage and carry down the pieces, but am now starting to
worry if the heaviest piece will be more that my adult son and I can
handle.

Other than that, I can hardly wait to get it!!

Hard to say whether you can handle it or not, but I'd uncrate it first. Mine,
and from what I understand, all the others, came on a kind of pallet I'd never
seen before, with uprights made of tube steel. Be careful lifting that sucker
off or it will scrape the bejaysus out of the sides. Pull it of the pallet and
cart the fence and extensions down first. Then, you've got the main package. Do
NO further unpacking until it is moved to about its normal site.

I don't know what your basement entrance is like, nor the strength levels of
you and your son, so my advice stops there. I got mine into a workshop that has
an entry door level with the bed of a pick-up truck--and average pickup truck.
I used my S10, which meant my wife and I had to lift the package up about
8-10", not as easy a chore as it sounds with 400+ pounds. I finally tipped it
on its side (absolutely not recommended) and used rollers to get it up a sheet
of plywood.

Charlie Self
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston
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