Moving & Placing
Base Unit
This is an extremely heavy machine. Serious personal injury may occur if safe moving methods are not followed. To be safe, you will need assistance and a forklift or a hoist when removing the machine from the crate. Use a chain or a lifting strap with a minimum of 1000 lbs. lifting capacity. If the chain or lifting strap breaks, serious personal injury may occur.
Take special care when moving this bandsaw. Only use the following methods to lift or move this bandsaw.
To move and place the bandsaw:
1.Use a forklift to move the bandsaw on the pallet to its final location.
2.Unbolt the bandsaw from the pallet.
3.Install the eye bolts shown in Figure 7, mak- ing sure they are threaded all the way in, then place the lifting hooks through the eye bolts and lift slowly with a forklift.
4.Remove the pallet and slowly set the bandsaw into position.
Figure 7. Lifting the bandsaw.
To move and place the bandsaw using wood shims:
1.Use a forklift to move the bandsaw on the pallet to its final location.
2.Carefully place the forklift forks under the head and install a 1x4 shim between the head and the left fork and a 2x4 shim between the head and right fork so the bandsaw is level, as shown in Figure 8.
3.Unbolt the bandsaw from the pallet.
2x4
1x4
Figure 8. Example of lifting bandsaw with forklift
using wood shims.
4.Lift the bandsaw off of the pallet, remove the pallet, and slowly set the bandsaw into posi- tion.
Note: If you are concerned about your forklift forks hitting the tension handwheel, remove the handwheel, then reinstall it after lifting.
