I am looking into buying a used planer. 20” grizzly. I need to get it into my shop which is onto a stair landing from garage (mid flight of the stairway), turn 90 deg and down about 7 steps into the basement, stop, 90 turn, into basement.
I figure this thing weighs about 700 lbs +-.
So my question is: Is there a right/wrong way to do this?
The stairs are well built but I would most likely put some temporary bracing under them. To ease the trip down my first thought is to rig up a come-a-long (anchored to wall studs) and slide the planer down on 2x lumber slowly releasing the cable. This way nobody gets hurt. Hopefully the friction of the lumber helps as well. The house is a fairly new so the rise/run is not to steep.
Second question, how much can it be disassembled to make it lighter? Right now I just have a lunch box planer so this kind of bulk is new to me.
Thanks in advance.