7 Mar
2012
7 Mar
'12
10:40 p.m.
On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 03/08/2012 12:58 AM, Pontus wrote:
That sort of stuff is movable. One trick a machinist friend of mine did to move a big
Bridgeport mill is to get it up onto a few small pieces of thin steel rod, like 1/4"
or less. By what mechanism he got it up onto them I don't know. But then he'd
just roll the monstrosity across the floor, moving one around to the front when it popped
out the back. A common implement in those circles is called, I believe, a "Johnson
bar" which is sorta like a handtruck but with FAR greater leverage and small steel
wheels with an immense weight rating.
Ah, yes! It's also known as a J-Bar (I guess because it looks like a capitol J). I
have one. It's amazingly useful in moving loaded racks when you have a *small* ledge
or gap to get over. Mine is more like a 6' pry bar with wheels at the leverage point.
The "blade" is ~6" wide and 4" deep (just right to get under racks
and such). It has a 6' wooden handle (again about 6" wide at the bottom and
tapers to ~4" and is 2" thick). The "wheels" are 6" heavy duty
solid wheels. I think I paid ~$100 for it new. It's seen a lot of use! Worth every
$0.01 I paid. Friends who've helped me move equipment (mine and theirs) love it too
(it's probably my most borrowed tool).
Basically you put the blade under what you're trying to move and "lever" it
up so that some of the weight is on the wheels of the J-Bar. Because the J-Bar's
wheels are much larger (and probably in much better shape than some of the casters on the
racks) it makes rolling the rack over "rough" terrain much easier. Usually I
use it when I'm moving stuff into/out of a lift gate truck. There are
"gaps" to get over that usually results in a lot of straining without the
J-Bar.
TTFN - Guy
I've
moved hundreds of H960's and learned a lot of tricks- mostly
good. I could 2 on the floor of my van and a 3ed on top.
Anybody else on here ever move an 11/70 in a corporate cab down
several flights of stairs in a commercial building? Remember, they
don't come apart- CPU, memory, expansion all in one.
holy... I've moved one.. but never down a flight of stairs, where there
casualties?
Although, we are all amateurs compared to the fellas with CNC machinery
in their garage. Admittedly no-one probably ever moved a CNC mill up a
flight of residential stairs...