Moving big machinery

Anyone have a company or sorce to go to in central Virginia? I’m exhausted moving the ‘smaller’ stuff and I have 8 big pieces to move.

Define big.

Kevin

Local move ?


My life today is on the other side of the phone, I have shipments don't look for them but, know lots of people although most of the smart ones are retired

If it was me I would look for "cartage companies", they are usually experienced in moving lathes, mills etc.

www.specialtyrigging.com is headquartered in PA but does work as far south as Maryland and Delaware. Not sure if they go into VA. Give them a call at 610-406-5188. If they don't work in VA, they'll probably be able to recommend someone who does.

where are you shipping them too ?

can you crate them ?

do you have a forklift to load / unload ?

Moving them 14 miles to my home shop. I rented a forklift $2500 in that already moving what I can load but not unload. Doing that with a cherry picker.

Should be a bunch of "machinery movers" just a Google away. They come with a hilo capable of picking up 50,000lbs and a flatbed. I've used them before by me. EXPENSIVE but no alternative. I moved 3 similar machines 1/2 a mile and paid $1000.

I’ve decided to break em down to their lightest and move them myself. The forklift has no problem picking them up, with my 2 ton picker and JD tractor with bucket I can move them. I carry them in a big aluminum 2 horse slant trailer one or two at a time

You might want to get a few 2" diameter steel pipe 3' or 4' long maybe about 4 or 5 of them so you can use them to "roll" a machine into a place the forklift can't go. When we had to move this old arbor/mandrel press into our old shop and then later get it out to move to another new shop the forklift wouldn't fit in the shop doorway. So we did like the Egyptian did and placed a couple of motorcycle chrome fork tubes under it and rolled it into the shop and then years later did the same to move it out. Two guys pushed it while one person kept taking the free tube from behind and moving it to the front. Worked great both times.

I ‘walked’ my big shaped in like that, done the same for years. I use either 1/4” rod or 1/4” black iron pipe, less tippy.
I imagine that machine weights a lot!