Kermit the Lathe's Wild Ride. (and some friends, too)

[jmoore]

This drill press and lathe needed to find a new home, but first they had to get outside through a regular old door way as seen on the left of the top photo.





The drill made it out first, but the lathe was first to it's new home a bit over a km away.





Our fine escort!:



On the road:





At the new "batcave".:



Some more "high speed" shots:




Just a little hard to see...

Anyway, that was how the day was spent.

Thanks for wading through the photos!

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[Gibbs505]

You needed a police escort?

Great to see that the equipment got a new home.

[jmoore]

Forklift (w/o tag) travelling down a four lane public roadway? It seemed prudent.

[muffett.2008]

Now tell the truth, he was there to book you for exceeding the speed limit.

When I aquired my big lathe, we had to totally dismantle it, then reassemble when it arrived home, still got that hernia.

[jmoore]

Now tell the truth, he was there to book you for exceeding the speed limit.

When I aquired my big lathe, we had to totally dismantle it, then reassemble when it arrived home, still got that hernia.

He about scared out of my seat when he hit the siren to go to an accident with injuries call! No escort after that.

Speaking of big equipment, I still haven't figured out what to do with the planer:

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Glad to see Your local PD took the Protect and Serve route rather than the Collect and Serve as the do in my part of the country.

[jmoore]

Glad to see Your local PD took the Protect and Serve route rather than the Collect and Serve as the do in my part of the country.

It's easier if you ask first! And you know half the guys on the force...

[enbloc8]

He about scared out of my seat when he hit the siren to go to an accident with injuries call! No escort after that.

Speaking of big equipment, I still haven't figured out what to do with the planer:

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Hmm, load it on a fifth wheel and tow it over? They ain't exactly making big classic machines like that anymore...just like with that horizontal mill behind it.

[jmoore]

Hmm, load it on a fifth wheel and tow it over? They ain't exactly making big classic machines like that anymore...just like with that horizontal mill behind it.

Well, the guy unloading it from the 18 wheeler said that based on his loadmeter it weighs about 60,000 lbs. The mill behind it ran about 9-10,000 lbs.
Anybody that wants that mill can have it for free. The overarm support is inside. It can probably be made servicable again with a lot of TLC. It wasn't "used up" like my #2 Cincinnatti, but it is fairly weathered.
My beef with it is that the spindle speeds available are just too slow-well less than 1000 RPM, max.

The drama with the planer is the new shop just isn't big enough to contain it , unless all the other stuff goes. I got it to do P40 wing parts and tooling, but that project is long past- I think!

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I love to watch a skilled machinest at work it is like magic! Thanks to all those folks who crafted the mechanical works of art we call Milsurps.