Re: Moving Sawstop Cabinet Saw
- From: "Charlie Self" <charliediy@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Oct 2005 23:38:47 -0700
Steve Thayer wrote:
> I just bought a Sawstop Cabinet saw. The company will be at a woodworking
> show (in Grand Rapids, MI) near my house this week and they agreed to sell
> me one of the demos to save the steep shipping cost.
>
> The saw will be crated on a pallet and they will be able to load it with a
> fork lift into the bed of my full size pick up. It weighs 650 lbs. I am
> looking for suggestions as to the best way to get it into my shop and out of
> the truck. I have a few friends that are willing to help, but I want to be
> able to lower it out of my truck SAFELY. Once out of my truck I have to go
> down a 100 ft grassy hill to my shop at the back of the house. I was
> thinking I could borrow/rent a piano dolly or similar heavy duty hand truck.
> How about ramps out of truck. How many guys do you think I would need to
> move this with a dolly??
>
My wife and I just started setting up to move a 750 pound jointer
yesterday. It had to be lifted, and skids installed so it would roll on
the pipe rollers I use to get things to the shop door and onto
pick-ups. An engine crane did that, though it was a bit dodgy because
of the balance. I got the package into the shop with the help of one
friend, a come-along and an eyebolt in the opposite wall of the
shop--but I was afraid for a bit I was going to pop the wall.
Fortunately, this was one tool that could be tested without removing
the crate/pallet base.
As someone suggests, you should, if at all possible, drive closer to
the shop. If your shop floor is level with the ground, then ramps or
2x12s off the pick-up onto the ground work well. A piano dolly is a
good way to move the saw until you get it where it's going to remain.
Any furniture dolly I've seen, though, has wheels that are too narrow
and too small and too hard to do well on grass. The saw probably won't
fit on a hand truck, or if it does, it will take four guys to tip it
back and three to keep it from going over backwards.
Remove as much of the packing and peripheral gear as possible. Most
cabinet saws come with some heavy bits unattached, but inside the
carton or crate. Remove those. You can almost certainly peel about
100-150 pounds that way.
The figures above for people to help are not far off. You'll need at
least four friends to keep from injuring anyone. With five healthy, and
preferably husky, guys it should be close to a breeze.
Good luck.
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