Just bought a 20" Planer

[Terre Hooks]

Ugghhh..

How do I move this thing?

I am going to have to go pick it up, position it on a 5x8 trailer (wood floor) and then unload it and move it across the shop floor.

What would be the best method to stay out of the hospital?

[Bill White]

Well darn!! If ya had stayed with the lunchbox model.....
Enjoy!
Bill

[Chris Barnett]

Call Two Men and a Truck perhaps. Hope you solve it....will have the same problem shortly with a planer but have the exact issue now with a BS. Its stuck in the garage. Cannot get off pallet onto the mobile base.
Super heavy duty Shop Fox mobile base is rated at 1200 lb, which I plan to use.

[Mike McCann]

Rent a dollie with the big knobby tires to put it on to move it around. To get the dollie under the tool you just have to tilt it up on one side slide it under the tool and you are good to go. I used to work for a moving comapny and this is how they moved big heavy things with out trying to pick up the whole tool. It is still a two person job where one person does the tilting the other holds the dollie to the bottom of the tool before tipping it back up to move. I hope this helps

[Justin Bukoski]

Rent a pallet jack

[Scott Long]

I like to use the foldable 2 ton engine lifts.

[Brett Baldwin]

Several lengths of 3/4-1" pipe and a come along can go a long way toward moving it around. Be careful, go slow, and get a few guys to help keep it upright. Good luck.

[Bill Wyko]

Doesn't exist w/o pics so it must be light as a feather.:D

[Steve Clardy]

Ugghhh..

How do I move this thing?

I am going to have to go pick it up, position it on a 5x8 trailer (wood floor) and then unload it and move it across the shop floor.

What would be the best method to stay out of the hospital?



Gotta have pics. ;)

[Lance Norris]

Buy beer and call friends. Thats what I did for moving my planer and cabinet saw. Each was 600-700 lbs. Make sure you call the friend that has an appliance dolly.

[Todd Burch]

My 20" planer weighs 1200#. I bit the bullet and bought a narrow spread pallet jack. Of course, it's designed to be moved with a pallet jack.

I would not use a chain hoist around the tables, unless you want to screw it up.

Todd

[Todd Hyman]

So Terry are you selling your old planer?

[Mike Heidrick]

My Delta 20" DC580 had lifting points. Deere loader lifted it just fine. It promptly was installed into a HTC mobile base just for it.

It was liftgated from the semi to the shop floor.

[Jerry Booher]

I had the same problem with a huge 42" x 70" tool chest and also a SawStop. Due to a rotator cuff injury, I cannot lift anything heavy. I used my engine hoist (cherry picker) and a rope sling. Piece of cake.

[Bill Wyko]

A tow truck to get it home. I did that with a couple tool boxes before. Have them unload it on to some sort of rolling cart. Then a hydrolic jack ot 2 to get the cart out. Pics would help:D

[Russ Massery]

Last spring I bought a 15" unit I unloaded it off the back of my pickup with a engine hoist. I used a chain looped under the lifting bars. Most units that size have them. Then just rolled it (still on the hoist) in to the shop.

[Bill Wyko]

They have a nice cheap engine hoist at HF. Eric G. just got one to move his 8" jointer. It folds up into a fairly small footprint too.

[Bob Cooper]

i bought one recently as well...what kind did you get..mine's a Jet 20". It's on a pallet so i got it from the delivery point (driveway) to the shop via a neighbor's tractor (he's got forks). We set it down on a pair of (name?) furnature dolleys <-- you 4 wheels and 4 pieces of wood...about $15/each. I've left it on the dollys so i can move it around the shop.