Part of the fun is getting a rigger who will do the move. Last move, they had no problem taking my lathe/mill out of my old basement, but due to cabinets, refused to bid on going down the stairs at the new house, even though I told them the cabinets would NOT be there when the move occured (they came by before the closing, so I could not remove the cabinets). I've since rigged those cabinets so I can remove them in about 5 minutes after emptying them, otherwise the basement steps are REAL narrow - I also changed the hadrails to give me an extra few inches - only way to get a new dryer down the stairs
Joke? when looking at houses, one of the first things I did was look at the basement, and the basement stairs, to figure out exactly where the lathe and mill would go, and how hard a job it would be to rig them down the stairs - safely. As I said, I have a few years experience, as did Dad (RIP Dad)
One of the big rules in rigging - do it in such a way that is something DOES fail, no one gets hurt. No one ever goes UNDER the load. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 times as much work just to prevent someone passing under the load for 1 seconds - do the 2 or 3 times the work. If something does go wrong in that 1 second you'll regret it
I said I built a rigging frame - for the load I had to lift (900 lbs for the center column of the mill) it was way way overbuilt (6x6s). Now I want a new lathe. That sucker is really heavy (I'd like a 10EE). I'll probably head over to the local "Iron Works", and have them build me a STEEL rigging frame. The other option is a HLV-H - and take the lathe off the base, plus it would fit in the final spot a bit better. For some odd reason, a HLV-H costs more than a 10EE used. Don't really understand that
