I got some time to work on moving the mill. The "mill" is a 1950's Van Norman No. 12 vertical and horizontal Milling machine. I purchased it on ebay last fall and had it delivered here to the farm. Was a dickens of a thing to get unloaded and into the shop! It weighs more than my little tractors front end loader could handle - which means its more than 3000lbs! I know, you look at it and think it cant possibly weight that much, its not much bigger than a table saw, but this thing is made of cast steel - thick castings, and damn solid!
Anyway, I need to get this thing situated in the shop so I can use it (and get around my shop). I need to get this thing up off the shipping pallet and onto some round pipes so that I can roll it into place. To do this I made a make-shift crane out of some rough lumber. Check out the pictures below for a step by step.
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| Some of the stuff I had to move to even get to the mill! |
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| Here are the vertical legs for the crane |
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| Before moving the legs into position |
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| Legs in position |
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| The tops of the verticals are just a hair shy of the shop ceiling joists. |
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| Got the horizontal "beam" (log) ready to put up on top of the verticals. |
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| Tada! The horizontal is in place! (my wife reads this blog, so I will not disclose how the horizontal got up there!) |
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| Another view of the horizontal beam. I need to place some braces on it and attach the hoist. |
See part 2 of this post!
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