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    Default Greys Auction pickup. Any advice?

    Hi all, I won a Bridgeport mill at the recent greys toolroom auction in Vic.

    Any advice on picking it up? Like can I can in an prepare it for the hiab? Or do they restrict access etc etc. Are parts of it likely to 'walk' before I get there?

    Also, anybody got an lift eye hook for a Bridgeport. Series 1 2hp.

    Many thanks.

    Greg.

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    Call into your local bolt place for the lifting eye, Google will tell you the thread needed.
    Or just use fabric slings under the ram, the HIAB bloke will have the lifting straps in the truck.
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    Will depend on where it is is at Greys or on site of the auction, if it is at Greys they will usually load it for with you observance, if it is auction site then you will have to comply with all the safety regs that are applicable to the location
    e.g. boots, goggles, high viz vest etc. Best thing to do would be ring Greys and enquire, and yes thing are likely to disappear

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    Dave, China thanks.

    It is an auction site - not greys premises. The reason I was asking here is that their support line bloke was pretty vague about it all and, to be honest, answered like it was the first time anybody had asked whether they could have access to the mill to prep it for lifting and to pick up all the walk-ables etc before picking up - even if during the nominated pickup hours.

    Good call on the boots etc thing. I didn't ask that so I phoned back - yes. Steel cap boots and keep a hiviz with you. Eye protection maybe also. Thanks for that.

    Will report back at this forum when I get the "condition unknown - not working" bridgy in the garage.

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    I've never bought from an auction, so I'm no help there.
    Looking around it seems to be 5/8 11 thread, but some bridgeports are different, so just go with the sling.
    I will be interested in pictures of the move and the machine if your able to. Hopefully it turns out to be a good accurate machine for you.
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    Congratulations on your purchase.

    Apart from other comments....

    Suggest you rotate the head 180 degrees.

    Lower the table all the way down.

    Place a block of wood between motor and table and raise the table to apply light pressure on the wood to stop things from moving.

    All done to lower centre of gravity as they are top heavy.

    Lock all the gibs including the ram.

    Soft slings around the ram is easiest.

    Spiro

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    Spiro, Dave. Thanks. Seems slings are the way to go. The eye hooks vary in spec it seems anyways.

    Good tip on the wood. I was going to rotate head but the wood there is a good tip.

    Greg.

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    From memory they had a few mills.

    was looking at a pallet with a good hunk of plate.

    Read the fine print. Seemed like a lotta bs to pick up, so didn't bother.
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    Hi there,

    I have bought one item from Grays auctions, a surface grinder which weighed about 1 tonne. Not sure if they still do but they used to categorise actioned assetts into either Type A or Type B assets. Once any item of plant weighs over a particular weight (I think that's how they classify them), they are classed as a type B assett and require a much more rigorous approach to moving, lifting etc. Type B assetts require all relevant JSA's to be filled out and all people involved in the moving of the item are required to be compliant under OH&S regarding the use of plant or other lifting equipment. The whole operation is more heavily scrutinised. I'm not really sure what that all means but I drove from Melbourne to Sydney with a tandem trailer and a home made engine crane to lift it. I obviously wore safety boots and had a hi viz jacket etc and my lifting slings were all new and rated but my homemade engine crane was obviously not rated at all. The safety supervisor asked me what my engine crane was safely rated to and my answer was "Today it's rated to 1 tonne"

    He looked at me and smiled. He knew I just drove from Melbourne and that I had made a reasonable effort to do things safely and I also passed the attitude test so I immediately had him on side. There were some machine transport contractors loading other machines from the auction onto a truck with forklifts. The Grays guy asked if they could just quickly load my machine onto my trailer. It would have taken them maybe 30 seconds, I had it already slung and ready to go. Their reply was "No problems, that will be $120". The Grays Auction guy was so off with their greedy attitude that he helped me load it on with my engine crane.

    Since then I have also driven a bridgeport clone home from sydney. It weighed about 1200Kg. I was a bit more nervous with that trip since as mentioned above, it was not only a bit heavier but it was alot more top heavy, especially as it had a 200mm riser block fitted.

    Lots of tie downs, fore and aft and side to side. Check the tie downs often and especially after the first 50Km or so.

    Good luck!

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    Thanks Simon, happily, I have about 5klm to drive.

    They do still the class A and B thing. The Bridgeport falls into class A thankfully. Event the monster First mill on auction there was class A - it must have been few tonnes.

    I trailered a shaper from Newcastle to Melbourne a couple of years back. You're as nuts as I am then. ��

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