Moving machines

I once found a machine that was left outside a factory that makes golf club shafts. It sat there for weeks so I figured they just had no use for this obviously prototype thing that was very well engineered and just begging to be taken apart. It was all carefully fitted together with bolted gussets and a nice mechanism with double row chains and sprockets and shafts. The bench and top were nicely welded and very heavy. This must have cost about 15 grand to fabricate. So one evening in plain view of the second shift staff I went at it with mostly allen wrenches and a few other hand tools. It took me a couple of trips and some planning and carefull use of ramps and a kinda crappy hand dolly but I finally maneuvered that thing in about 30 pieces into my truck and hauled it home. It had to weigh a thousand lbs but I did it all with not even a skinned knuckle or even a scratch. Made a nice workench for my atlas lathe and still have lots of the pieces as handy square parts and weights. I still don't know what it did as a graphite golf club shaft machine.

Chuckle..Ill post a picture in the morning of a typical Okie Dustbowl/Machinery load arriving at Gunners house today.

I brought home the rest of the Helios Mill in the 5x10' trailer, with the universal table in the bed of the pickup truck, 4/6/8/10' ladders,

6" vise, 100lbs of 16p nails, 2 large parts bins, 20 2x4x10' studs, 2 forklift propane tanks, 20 quarts of oil, a small dorm sized fridge (almost refered to it as a reefer..but Id have the DEA on my ass for a splib that big..) 20 various sized extension cords....(snip another 500lbs of stuff....)

"I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism. As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist

Selling the extension cords? I'll buy!