I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October. It adds to the excellent one that Richard Kinch
did when he moved his. We had quite a discussion regarding what was
safe and what wasn't, with some disagreements among some who had done
it different ways.

http://metalworking.com/dropbox/
Moving_a_Bridgeport_2J_Head_Milling_Machine_2.pdf

Topics covered.
A photo essay describing the equipment needed to move a Bridgeport
milling machine,
One safe way of strapping the machine onto a trailer
How to lift it off the trailer
HOW TO GET A WIDE TABLE THROUGH A NARROW DOOR
Photos from the web of other people's moving experiences.


I uploaded the files Saturday AM, so I don't know when they'll
actually appear.

RWL

GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:



I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October. It adds to the excellent one that Richard Kinch
did when he moved his. We had quite a discussion regarding what was
safe and what wasn't, with some disagreements among some who had done
it different ways.

http://metalworking.com/dropbox/
Moving_a_Bridgeport_2J_Head_Milling_Machine_2.p df

Topics covered.
A photo essay describing the equipment needed to move a Bridgeport
milling machine,
One safe way of strapping the machine onto a trailer
How to lift it off the trailer
HOW TO GET A WIDE TABLE THROUGH A NARROW DOOR
Photos from the web of other people's moving experiences.


I uploaded the files Saturday AM, so I don't know when they'll
actually appear.

RWL




Nice work moving the machine.

One thing that you might have done is to put a piece of plywood in the
trailer under the machine. Metal on metal slides easy, wood on metal is
much less slippery. This also goes for carrying a machine on a
forklift. I saw someone drop a keyseater last week because he had the
thing directly on the forks and then hit a bump.

John

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:33:32 -0400, the infamous GeoLane at PTD dot
NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET scrawled the following:



I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October. It adds to the excellent one that Richard Kinch
did when he moved his. We had quite a discussion regarding what was
safe and what wasn't, with some disagreements among some who had done
it different ways.

http://metalworking.com/dropbox/Moving_a_Bridgeport_2J_Head_Milling_Machine_2.pdf

The URL was broken so I fixed it.


Topics covered.
A photo essay describing the equipment needed to move a Bridgeport
milling machine,
One safe way of strapping the machine onto a trailer
How to lift it off the trailer
HOW TO GET A WIDE TABLE THROUGH A NARROW DOOR
Photos from the web of other people's moving experiences.

Well done, sir.


I uploaded the files Saturday AM, so I don't know when they'll
actually appear.

It's up now, 2:31PDT.

--
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything
evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
-- Johann K. Lavater

GeoLane at PTD dot NET writes:

I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October.

Well done, and documented.

Very nice writeup. Now you know that everything is portable.

i

On 2009-07-18, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:


I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October. It adds to the excellent one that Richard Kinch
did when he moved his. We had quite a discussion regarding what was
safe and what wasn't, with some disagreements among some who had done
it different ways.

http://metalworking.com/dropbox/
Moving_a_Bridgeport_2J_Head_Milling_Machine_2.pdf

Topics covered.
A photo essay describing the equipment needed to move a Bridgeport
milling machine,
One safe way of strapping the machine onto a trailer
How to lift it off the trailer
HOW TO GET A WIDE TABLE THROUGH A NARROW DOOR
Photos from the web of other people's moving experiences.


I uploaded the files Saturday AM, so I don't know when they'll
actually appear.

RWL

jeff wrote:

Very nice. The driveway where this was loaded looks like gravel, if
it was I really don't understand why that Hyster didn't bury itself.

Might have been covered with something like Afton stone. We laid Afton stone on our dirt
areas where I worked and after a bit of rain and driving over, it made a surface hard
enough for lift trucks to operate on.

Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:



I finally got around to writing up my experiences moving a Bridgeport
mill last October. It adds to the excellent one that Richard Kinch
did when he moved his. We had quite a discussion regarding what was
safe and what wasn't, with some disagreements among some who had done
it different ways.


I like how you use a piece of plywood to get the bp over your threshold without damaging
it. I'll keep that in memory since my bp is on the other side of a 36" door that wasn't
there when I moved the bp in.

Wes