[OP]
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Hi there,
i received my new slider, what is the best way to get the saw off the pallet? I have a pallet jack to move the crate and saw once removed but no forklift to remove the saw. I'm sure some of you have been through this!
currently I'm also pondering how to get it safely off my trailer.
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Rent a gantry style crane or hire a truck with a crane on it.
http://www.lkgoodwin.com/more_info/c...d_cranes.shtml
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just make a plywood ramp no reason to rent anything nothing fancy i just used 1 2x4 and a half sheet of 3/4ply
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+1 on David's advice. At least for Felder and Hammer gear, this is the simplest way to get it off the pallet. You could also use the same technique to get it off your trailer depending on the height (or rent some aluminum ramps).Originally Posted by David T gray
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If you have a hefty beam in your shop rig one or two comealongs with canvas moving straps around the saw and lift it up, slide the pallet out of the way, then let it down on iron pipe rollers that will let you move it to wherever it needs to go.
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You can also just use a Sawzall and gradually nibble away at the pallet (it's nowhere near as beefy as a "regular" pallet you are used to seeing; trust me on that...) until the machine sort of collapses through the floor. The SC4 is actually very stable and won't toip over or anything. I've done that at trade shows where there was no pallet jack nearby. Hope this helps,
Erik
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Tool rental place?
http://www.homedepot.com/c/moving_su...uipment_rental
Last edited by lowell holmes; 08-18-2017 at 1:30 PM.
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I did something that was a combination of both David's and Erik's suggestions when getting my S315WS off the pallet and if I recall, it was while my trailer was tipped into the shop allowing things to, um...flow downhill.
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The absolute best way is to hook it back up to your truck and drive to my house. End of problem.
John
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I bought the mobility kit when I got my K3 Winner. Installed it then built a ramp and rolled it off onto the floor.
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I bought a come-along and some towing chain to drag the pallet off of the trailer. Hooked the come-along to a lally column. Like in your case, a pallet jack wasn't going to work because of the orientation of the saw on the trailer.
Once on the ground, I made a simple ramp and very slowly (and nervously) rolled the saw to the floor. Once it's on the floor, a pallet jack is exactly what you need. The saw has stickers that show where the forks go.
[OP]
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Went easy route. Rented a forklift. Simple after that.
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remove all the straps holding the machine to the pallet...
hook 2 giant eye-bolts to the pallet
connect a big, thick rope or chain to the eye bolts
Make sure the chain/rope is atleast 100' long
borrow a buddy's 1977 chevy dually and connect the rope/chain to the dually leaving as much slack as possible
set up the video cameras for multiple angles
get in the truck wearing a t-shirt with no sleeves
scream "GIT ER DONE"!! As loud as possible
stomp on the accelerator and haul ass until the pallet flies out from underneath. Kind of like pulling the tablecloth out from under a fancy set of tableware
load the video to you tube
go viral
collect lots and lots of views and get PAID!
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it sounds like somebody has been watching too many Dukes of Hazard showes.
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True tales from the front:
-When I was with Felder in the early 2000's, there was such a skeleton crew in the Sacto office that the sales guys were often charged with loading and unloading machines with the forklift. They had some forklift guy come out and "certify" us at one point, which was like your driver's ed course with cones and such. Yes, we were "certified" but just like passing dreiver's ed doesn't make you a professional driver, you can imagine where this is going. I was trying to load up a giant-ass CF7-41 SP combo machine into back of a box truck for a trade show and accidentally drove the whole forklift WITH MACHINE ON IT into the back of the truck, which was like 3X what the truck was rated for. Anyhow, the forklift ened up cracking off a piece of the machine's cast iron table about the size of a quarter. Like knocking off the edge of a granite counterop. $25K+ machine, basically totaled because of that. I stuck to the pallet jack after that.
-At Minimax in Austin, they hired some new forklift guy. We were sitting in the front office one day and "BOOM!", what sounded like a bomb going off in the warehouse. New guy apparently dropped a 20" SCMi planer from the top shelf. Later that day (not making this up), "BOOM!", again. Dropped a second 20" SCMi planer from the top rack. Guy got fired on the spot.
By far the most damage-prone machines, however, were bandsaws. Tall, slender, and a high center of gravity. In the last five or so years, SCM started shipping all their bandsaws lying down, which essentially has eliminated freight-related damage but in the early days, they were shipped standing upright. I've lost track of the number of times I've had to pick an MM16 back up at a trade show and do something like pound the fence guide bar brackets back into shape or pull the fan cover and tap the dents back out (testimony to rugged Centauro saws are: They would always run great afterwards). Fun stuff.
Erik
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