[pickled]

Wow Keen that is a pretty wild design. Here in the states we would call that Gettin R' Done Redneck style! The time I worry the most when moving these machines is when you are putting them back on their stands and have to impart a twist or pressure during the final descent to get the base to line up with the pads on the Tormach stands. When I designed the welded box tube base for my 2nd machine (the much lighter 770) I tried to provide a very large landing area for the base. I used 2x5" wide 3/16" thick box tube for the landing areas (run across the entire span) and it simplified things quite a bit.

[keen]

You all make me nervous now! But I climbed on the machine plus some heavy chucks when it was just off the ground and jumped on it - so if it can stand that surely it is fine when hanging high in the sky ......

less keen