Moving a Mill with a BIG crane

[DennisCNC]

Take a look at this site.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~kmaxon/p...ill101_137.htm

[damae]

What amazing overkill!! I love it!

Moving a mill with a crane is interesting, but if you check out the rest of the site, this guy has done some truly incredible things! I'm going to have to take a day to digest his injection molding machine project!

[ZipSnipe]

Yeah I,m surprised his wife let him convert the dining room to work shop..But then again if he,s bringin home the bacon , who needs a dining room.

[gmfoster]

Originally Posted by damae What amazing overkill!! I love it! Moving a mill with a crane is interesting, but if you check out the rest of the site, this guy has done some truly incredible things! I'm going to have to take a day to digest his injection molding machine project!

How do you figure it was overkill?
At one point the boom was extented to 96 ft, I am not sure I would have wanted to deal with a much smaller rig with 3800 lbs on the end of a 96 foot lever....

Garry

[jderou]

Do you think their was no other way to get the mill to the back of the house? Try driving around it, I don't think it was necessary to go over the house.
This guy is in to everything though! Nice site.

[damae]

Originally Posted by gmfoster How do you figure it was overkill? Garry

Overkill, compared to the usual engine hoist + yard debris trialer that so many hobbiests use!

No doubt there was $ome real rea$on for u$ing a crane instead of ju$t getting a rough terrain forklift to drive it around to the back -- a wall or fence or $ome other ob$tacle we can't $ee from the picture$.

Of course, that crane can't be cheap!! All those $'s add up!

Three days ago, I was within a hair of purchasing an old Cincinnati mill, a 8000 pound beast in good mechanical condiiton, for only $500. It also came with 30 pieces of 40-taper tooling! So good deal, right? But when I started to price out moving it, it was was going to be too expensive. The riggers wanted about $195/hour for three guys, a forklift and a flatbed. It's a fair price, but they charge from "port to port" and it would have taken them 6-8 hours to move it 26 miles!

"Port to port" means the clock starts when they leave their truckyard in the morning and stops only when they return to the truckyard after your job. (Traffic and lunchtime are on you)

Of course, a 96kip crane is going to be a lot more than $195/hr. Maybe he has a friend in the business or the truckyard is close to his house?

In any case, I wouldn't have done it that way. Yes, I would have lifted the house up and drove the forklift across the now bare floor to the back of the house.

[jderou]

I had a auto wrecker come and unload mine for me. He had no problem lifting the 4000 lb mill off the trailer with his truck. Charged me $60 (and he wrote the bill as a tow on my insured vehicle, free moving!)

[DennisCNC]

I have been checking his site for about 5 years. He is something esle!! If you read some of the pages, his girlfriend helps him solder his projects to gether! Now thats something.