Need Help!- MOVING A HAAS TM2

[bigbaz]

I will be buying a used tm2 in the next week and would like some advise on transporting the machine, the machine still has the bracket for the head is it as simple as lowering it down onto the bracket and bolting together. also any advice on strapping the machine onto lorry back, can i put the straps over the table or will this damage the rails?

[mphjunky]

I bought a used TM-1 from an HFO a few months ago and brought it home myself. The Z brace was already installed when I got there but if I were to do it myself I think I would Power it up and go to the screen were it shows how much pressure is being applied and set the brace on the table and lower the Z untill it is set on the brace and is relieved some or all and then tighten the bolts on both. As for strapping it down. I lowered the adjusting screws 3/4's of an inch and set them into a 6"X6" wood beam and put chain threw the lower casting in the front and one in the back and tightened them with a turnbuckle to the trailer anchors. It would have been better to move them up higher on the machine but I didn't see anywhere that I was comfortable with so I didn't. On the 398 mile journey home the beams moved maybe a 1/2 inch but the machine never shifted on the beams.
I hope this helps some.

[automizer]

The man to ask and look at is Geof he is a master at moving Haas Machines

here are two moves of his


http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20113

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43657

[cam1]

Consider hiring a rigger to make the move. If you are inexperiened with this kind of work, you stand to damage considerably more than your machine. Overloading trailers and temporarily rigging is all good and fine until the machine tips (worst case scenario is that a tire blows while traveling on a highway....). The second benefit to using a qualified rigger, and I mean someone who earns their daily bread, is that they are fully insured.
I've helped to move some very large pieces of equipment, and I cringe when I hear statements like "the tractor was rated for XXXX lbs, and the machine weighed XXXX+2000, but we hooked it up anyways, and loaded it onto the trailer for just a short trip", see it worked just fine".
Just be careful, and keep your fingers and toes out of the way. If possible hire a flatbead towtruck with a tilt & load bed transport the machine. Keep in mind that pallet trucks can tip very easily.


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