OMG that's a big crate!

[Acmeaviator]

:eek: Ok- that is a big crate. Thankfully managed to get it off the truck and into the warehouse. Now I have to figure out how to get it from the warehouse to my shop across town. I'm thinking of un-crating, renting a liftgate truck from Home Depot, rolling it into the back on it's casters and driving it - any thoughts?

[ken_rychlik]

Just get a lowboy/utility type of trailer and use a few furniture dollys to roll it on and off the trailer.

By no means would I take it apart unless you had to take it into a basement or something like that.

[kartracer63]

Brian,

You should be able to move your new Buddy with a utility trailer that has a fold-down ramp/gate. I moved mine last fall on a utility trailer with NO problems. Two guys can move it on the castors (3 is better).

[zeykr]

Flat bed tow truck. They also work well for loading a full sized assembled shopbot into the back of cargo trucks.

[curtiss]

Sounds like very good advice above, but now that you have your "own machine",

you are now free to make your own mistakes. :)

Let's see.... delivered to the wrong location.... :confused::confused:

[Acmeaviator]

Let's see.... delivered to the wrong location....

Unfortunately I'm a clockmaker - so my shop has no heavy moving equipment and is in a residential area which YRC refused to deliver to. The best option that left me was delivery to the warehouse I do IT support for since they have a forklift, loading dock, pallet jacks, etc. and a dry place to stick the crate. Kinda stinks to have paid the $$$ for an unused lift gate but them's the breaks:D

[ironsides]

... is in a residential area which YRC refused to deliver to. ...

YRC must be picky, they delivered my PRS 48 X 48 in a residential area using their lift gate with no problems.

George

[Acmeaviator]

I can't blame them - I live in an old Cinci neighborhood and was told that the street is restricted and that the driver would not deliver to my address. I managed to get my wife's production size kiln delivered, disassembled, moved into what had been a coal bin, reassembled, wired and working. I just need to roll this out a loading dock onto a smaller truck then off the truck into my shop:D

[tlempicke]

Put the wheels on but do not put the screw down pads on. It will wheel right up the ramp of a U Haul 5x9 trailer. That is how I got mine from Florida to South Carolina.

[mikek]

Here is how we unloaded Neville's Buddy. If you have access to a fork lift it would be easy to load on a low flat bed trailer. Use winch, come along, jack or whatever to pull it off when you get it home. Neville had some horsepower to pull it off. It is unwieldy until you can get it on casters.