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<blockquote data-quote="Jefpainthorse" data-source="post: 1291514" data-attributes="member: 11766"><p>I'd bolt some 4x4 runners to the legs on the base. That wood would allow you to get a set of piano dolleys or something similar under that whole tool and you could roll it part of the way. </p><p></p><p>Having those skids makes a lift point... a couple of floor jacks and some leverage will get it on the stairs...look at things ... think out a plan and those stairs won't be very hard to get up.</p><p></p><p>The biggest machine tool I ever helped move was a horizontal boring machine that weighed about 17,000. Most of that move was done with pipes, bottle jacks and pinch bars. When you need to move stuff like that...it's like eating an elephant...one bite at a time. Have fun and good luck!</p><p></p><p>Short lengths of pipe (even Sched 40 1/2 inch will work) can be used as rollers under that runner too... if you have room to roll things around... get 6 or 7 lenghts and as you roll the leading edge off the first pipe shuttle it around to the front... the Egyptians build pyramids with rollers like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefpainthorse, post: 1291514, member: 11766"] I'd bolt some 4x4 runners to the legs on the base. That wood would allow you to get a set of piano dolleys or something similar under that whole tool and you could roll it part of the way. Having those skids makes a lift point... a couple of floor jacks and some leverage will get it on the stairs...look at things ... think out a plan and those stairs won't be very hard to get up. The biggest machine tool I ever helped move was a horizontal boring machine that weighed about 17,000. Most of that move was done with pipes, bottle jacks and pinch bars. When you need to move stuff like that...it's like eating an elephant...one bite at a time. Have fun and good luck! Short lengths of pipe (even Sched 40 1/2 inch will work) can be used as rollers under that runner too... if you have room to roll things around... get 6 or 7 lenghts and as you roll the leading edge off the first pipe shuttle it around to the front... the Egyptians build pyramids with rollers like that. [/QUOTE]
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