Joe Arcimboldo
06-19-2013, 9:21 PM
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After looking around for a while, I came across a 1989 SC 600 that looked pretty good.
The only downside is its 3 phase, but given that I paid $850 for it, I figure I can get a converter and still come out ahead.
Its gonna need a new set of tires, a better resaw blade and some paint on the doors, but that's pretty minor.
The main thing that concerned me was how I was going to get it home...
Best I can tell, the specs suggest it weighs between 700-800 lbs.
So I took my 6x10 lowboy trailer and hoped maybe we could back it under the saw after raising it with an engine hoist.
The gentlemen on the left in the first picture is the seller--a really nice guy who has a great shop out behind his house with a Newman 80 jointer (2800 lbs.) and a Whitney tablesaw (table weight 800 lbs). The guy on the right is my friend Lee who has a milling machine that weighs 3500 lbs. All that to say, both of those fellas have more experience moving machinery than I do, so I was more than happy to take their advice.
I had downloaded an owner's manual from SCM and they suggest removing one or both wheels and the table to ease transport. That was all pretty easy to do, but I decided to go further 'cause I'm pretty weak.
Here are the totals of what I removed off the saw:
fence 15 lbs.; Doors-20; Switch and various bolts--15; top wheel--47; table-117
I took the switch off so that we could lay it down on its front face and slide it onto the trailer.
I didn't take the bottom wheel off b/c I didn't wanna mess with the belts, and by that time, it seemed I wouldn't need to.
It was really a cinch. The two of us walked it over, laid it down, and pulled it on there in less than 5 minutes.
To get it off back at my house, I propped the trailer up where the back was about level with the threshold. We then opened the back door of the shop and hooked a come-along to a temporary strongback that we nailed in the doorway and just pulled it along on top of a couple 2x2's I tacked to the ground to lessen the friction. Unloading took about 15 minutes.
All in all, I can honestly say that moving this 700 lb. beast was less of a headache than getting a tag for my trailer.
After looking around for a while, I came across a 1989 SC 600 that looked pretty good.
The only downside is its 3 phase, but given that I paid $850 for it, I figure I can get a converter and still come out ahead.
Its gonna need a new set of tires, a better resaw blade and some paint on the doors, but that's pretty minor.
The main thing that concerned me was how I was going to get it home...
Best I can tell, the specs suggest it weighs between 700-800 lbs.
So I took my 6x10 lowboy trailer and hoped maybe we could back it under the saw after raising it with an engine hoist.
The gentlemen on the left in the first picture is the seller--a really nice guy who has a great shop out behind his house with a Newman 80 jointer (2800 lbs.) and a Whitney tablesaw (table weight 800 lbs). The guy on the right is my friend Lee who has a milling machine that weighs 3500 lbs. All that to say, both of those fellas have more experience moving machinery than I do, so I was more than happy to take their advice.
I had downloaded an owner's manual from SCM and they suggest removing one or both wheels and the table to ease transport. That was all pretty easy to do, but I decided to go further 'cause I'm pretty weak.
Here are the totals of what I removed off the saw:
fence 15 lbs.; Doors-20; Switch and various bolts--15; top wheel--47; table-117
I took the switch off so that we could lay it down on its front face and slide it onto the trailer.
I didn't take the bottom wheel off b/c I didn't wanna mess with the belts, and by that time, it seemed I wouldn't need to.
It was really a cinch. The two of us walked it over, laid it down, and pulled it on there in less than 5 minutes.
To get it off back at my house, I propped the trailer up where the back was about level with the threshold. We then opened the back door of the shop and hooked a come-along to a temporary strongback that we nailed in the doorway and just pulled it along on top of a couple 2x2's I tacked to the ground to lessen the friction. Unloading took about 15 minutes.
All in all, I can honestly say that moving this 700 lb. beast was less of a headache than getting a tag for my trailer.