Re: Pending delivery, looking for advice
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Imran,?
I fairly doubt you are lacking in the smart or clever department. I wasn't here to judge the Portamate bases, but since you broached the subject, I had a least 4 of them from a 10+ year back era and really disliked that the wheels and frame were too close to the ground for going over anything but the most smooth floors and I pretty much had to wear steel toes because I tripped over the cam-lifting?levers and sticking-out components pretty?regularly. The corner issues I seem to recall a worry as well especially on an open-stand jointer that would never fit quite-right. When I looked up the model Mikkel specified, I assumed it looked like it had improved over my experiences from earlier versions.
And, hey, hoists are great, as long as safe rigging practices are used. Some people use hoists so much that every precision tool they own have chain-scratch marks to prove it. Now I keep a batch of nylon?slings on hand at all times just for the guys who use chains and have never seen them.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 5:59 AM imranindiana via <imranindiana= [email protected]> wrote: Brett,
I guess I am not smart or clever. I only have one mobile base and I am pretty sure it is Portamate. Don¡¯t really care for it. IIRC, there are four pieces of angle iron with corner blocks. I could not figure out how i could assemble them and install with just blocks and levers on a machine that does not have a base (i.e., metal sides with folded lip). Perhaps having a hoist made me not think too hard ?
Imran ? Faced with similar situations on moving awkward objects over soft soil:
1. Buy a few sheets of 5mm underlayment board and use it piggy-back to lay the road over the fragile ground, taking up the previous sheet and relaying?in front of you.
2. From there you can use nearly any wheeled contraption with little rolling resistance,?including pipes for rollers. Maybe even the Portamate setup you already bought or a set of furniture caster dollies.
3. The engine hoist idea may work but you still have the issue with rigging and attachment?points under tension. You might find it's not too bad to work it off the pallet right onto the Portamate? with some levers, stacks of blocking, and clever use of the car jack. On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:04 AM < mikkel@...> wrote: I have a Hammer K3 coming in a few weeks and I need to move all the way through my garden (like 50 meters) of grass and due to rain likely very soft soil. Therefore I was thinking on lifting the pallet up with a car jack and drill a hole on each side of the pallet both front and back to install a metal rod and some 7-8¡± allroads wheels to better be able to move it. What do you guys think or suggest as alternative if this doesnt work??
Also, how do you install it on a mobile base such as a Portamate? I bought the Portamate PM-3550 with extention kit, but not sure how to get the saw on it. One idea is to use and engine hoist to lift up the saw.?
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Regards,
Mikkel
Mikkel
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-- Brett Wissel Saint Louis Restoration 1831 S Kingshighway Blvd (at Shaw Blvd) St Louis, MO 63110 314.772.2167 brett@...
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