Originally Posted by
SCzEngrgGroup
Lifting, and even moving, these machines can be done by yourself, perfectly safely, and requires nothing more than a crowbar, and some blocks of wood. Cut some 3/4" plywood into a bunch of 6" x 6" squares. Use a crowbar and a large block of wood to lift one corner of the base just enough to get one piece of plywood under the foot, then repeat for the other corners. Keep going around adding one piece of plywood to each corner in turn until it's high enough. In 10 minutes you can have the whole machine 6" off the ground. To get it down, do the same in reverse. To move it, use the crowbar and a block of wood to slightly raise, and move one corner - it'll move about an inch at a time. I moved my 2600# knee mill over 20 feet, by myself, in not much over an hour.
Regards,
Ray L.