As the stork brought it - G0513X2

[cputnam]

G0513X2 by Curt Putnam, on Flickr

G0513X2 by Curt Putnam, on Flickr

[Tapper]

Congrats!

Doug

[fredhargis]

Congrats. It appears to be in the garage, how did it get there?

[Cian]

It is delivered upright?

[Admiral]

It is delivered upright?

Yes, mine came crated exactly the same way; looks flimsy, but actually has a lot of foam on the inside.  Not much assembly either.

[cputnam]

Congrats. It appears to be in the garage, how did it get there?

UPS driver showed up in a semi and parked at the end of the driveway. Asked me to lower the tailgate while he held on to the unit and then proceeded to drag the thing up the driveway before I could get up it (still have trouble with slopes.) Then he did the washing machine shimmy into the garage for me. The shipping pallet had been loaded onto a pallet so it was too high for my 7' high garage. I dropped 60 bucks on him

[cputnam]

Yes, mine came crated exactly the same way; looks flimsy, but actually has a lot of foam on the inside.  Not much assembly either.

How did you get yours off the shipping pallet? Do you have a mobile base. How did you get onto the base?

[Admiral]

How did you get yours off the shipping pallet?  Do you have a mobile base.  How did you get onto the base?

I had rented what is called a Dingo, basically a walk behind Bobcat, with some forks, as I had to transport it around the house, down a slope, and into my walk out basement shop.  When I got it to the basement, I unpacked, lifted the bandsaw off the pallet (forks on the underside of the top wheel box, Griz manual said that was ok) and eased it through the double doors with 2" clearance on top and bottom, onto a mobile base.  All of this took 15 minutes.

[cputnam]

I had rented what is called a Dingo, basically a walk behind Bobcat, with some forks, as I had to transport it around the house, down a slope, and into my walk out basement shop.  When I got it to the basement, I unpacked, lifted the bandsaw off the pallet (forks on the underside of the top wheel box, Griz manual said that was ok) and eased it through the double doors with 2" clearance on top and bottom, onto a mobile base.  All of this took 15 minutes.

Thanks. Bobcat won't work for me. No room.

[jteneyck]

Thanks.  Bobcat won't work for me.  No room.

My much heavier G0636X came on two pallets.  I got it off the lower one by running 2x4's through the upper one and jacking it up enough to pull out the lower one.  



We got it off the lower pallet by pulling it off with a strap around the bottom of the machine and pulling it off with the winch on the back of my car.



A come-a-long would have worked just as well.  

You can pick up these bandsaws from under the upper wheel housing or from the eye bolts on the top, at least on mine.  If you have a chain fall that would be the easiest way to get it onto a mobile base.  I couldn't do that because there was not enough ceiling height in my basement to do that.  But with the Grizzly mobile base you don't need to anyway.  You just tip the machine back enough to slide half the base assembly under one side, then tip it the other way to install the second half.  It's not hard and my wife and I did it with no other help.  

John