Question:
I've never moved anything like this and neither have any of my friends so free
expertise is out except for you guys.
Does $450.00 seem a reasonable price to move my recently acquired
(I'll have questions on it later, I'm sure) Clausing 6903 (14"x36")
from an open top trailer 25 feet across my driveway, through a (8 foot
wide 6 foot 11 inch tall) garage door and place in that same garage?
The price breakdown is $200 for the lift and $125/hr X 2 guys for the
rollback to bring the forklift out to my house.
Answer:
Sounds not unreasonable. 1,500 lbs is quite a bit of weight to move
without suitable equipment. If my driveway was flat, which it is not,
I could possibly attempt moving it by myself with a shop crane. I did
move a 800 lbs Clausing 8530 mill off a trailer and into my garage
once, alone, it worked quite painlessly and did not even take long.
Position at edge of trailer, lift off trailer with crane, drive
trailer away, lower on supports on the crane legs, secure, move into
garage, that was the approximate sequence.
Since the clausing lathe is low, it can be lifted with the shop crane
set at 1 ton setting, most likely. Done properly, the risks are low.
Riggers wanted $1,300 when I asked them about moving the mill and
lathe from the seller to me.
