I used this very ramp for a very heavy Cincinnati Mill a couple times, it was difficult but I managed it. The lathe will be in a wood crate and much lighter. I thimk with the engine hoist AND the ramp, I should be able to manage it, however, it is still a frightening bit of work, so I appreciate all the thots and ideas. I thimk I will try the engine hoist first, because if that works, it will be so much simpler, hower, if that fails, bring out the ramp.
You know, I always tells my son, daughter and friends that I always LISTEN to advice, take one third of it immediately, reject 1/3 immediately and thimk about the other third for a couple days. Some advice is frivolous from inexperienced persons, but how frivolous was the ten year old's advice to flatten the tires? Here's what happened, a watermelon truck got stuck going into a tunnel. The adults couldn't figure out what to do. The kid said, Let some air out of the tires.
One time a man's tire fell off while driving by Steilacoom (a town in Washington with a psychiatric asylum--commonly we of the Soviet call the asylum 'Steilacoom' and not the town). The owner of the car didn't know what to do but an inmate was at the fence. He said, take a nut off each of the other three tires and put them on the spare. I may be crazy but I'm not stupid.
So often a simple idea can be utilized that oneself never thot about, so I always hunt for ideas. Also, one should remember that not all advice by seasoned swarf warriors is good advice--usually, but not always.
