14-ton lathe

That is a big machine!
Got a friend who collects printing machines, I used to work for.
Always a challenge the moving of those fellows.

 

Figuratively, Komo, figuratively!!!!!!!!!!! Wouldn't DREAM of disturbing "boys & their toys" You DID see ALL the CRAZY 'smileys' ????

 

I get these urges often and manage to fight off my initial attraction to impossibly-large and expensive toys, most of the time anyway. Got a real surprise today, a nice lady came into the biz saying she had a full truckload of used machinery for me. I had fully expected a days’ warning at least. None! Wasn’t her fault. It was near lunchtime so I took my one helper and her to lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant. Then we got organized to unload over ten tons of tools, machines, bin racks, moving dollies, machinery stands, and all manner of stuff. We had her go to the Hoarditorium Annex we just began moving into. Annex has a real loading dock our other place doesn’t and what a huge difference that made. Fortunately we had recently acquired a previously owned (but unused) “dock plate” which is a heavy metal bridge allowing forklifts to get into trucks. We got the whole 53’ truck unloaded in 45 minutes by driving the forklift right into the trailer, grabbing a pallet, and backing out. The former method without loading dock required a couple of people in the trailer bringing pallets to the tailgate with pallet jacks. Then the forklift takes it off the tailgate and drives it to another place. That took 3 to 4 hours every time if nothing went wrong. So the new place is getting “populated” with both equipment we need and some we will sell, which goes where TBD.