Thread: Slideway grinders go for a song

Geez, going by the size of it it might be easier to put down a decent slab down, put the grinder on it and build the shed around it.
I hope you get plenty of work for it.
Kryn

Never mind the foundation, might find it sitting in a creek if it finds any bridge load limits enroute, big bugger!

Pommy buyers identity still a state secret?

Originally Posted by Hunch

Pommy buyers identity still a state secret?

I've been in discussion with them. Looks like I'll be pulling theirs apart and putting it into containers. Probably early the week after next. I'll do Richards at the same time while I have cranes on-site.

Regards Phil.

Originally Posted by Hunch

Pommy buyers identity still a state secret?

Sorry, but I do not want to jinx anything at this stage.. I did assume there would be some people who would like to drop in stay out of the road and say hello. And for some see what they put their money towards, which is much appreciated..

Originally Posted by Machtool

I've been in discussion with them. Looks like I'll be pulling theirs apart and putting it into containers. Probably early the week after next. I'll do Richards at the same time while I have cranes on-site.

Regards Phil.

If the timeline slips a bit, I'll be in Sydney the following week - I think - and can give you a hand for a day or 2 if you need it. I also have a bit of a workshop with welding gear etc up there for any bracket fabrication etc.

PDW

Originally Posted by Machtool

I've been in discussion with them. Looks like I'll be pulling theirs apart and putting it into containers. Probably early the week after next. I'll do Richards at the same time while I have cranes on-site.

Regards Phil.

Should be a doddle compared to that previous job on here, save being crushed by the thing.

Originally Posted by RC

Sorry, but I do not want to jinx anything at this stage.. I did assume there would be some people who would like to drop in stay out of the road and say hello. And for some see what they put their money towards, which is much appreciated..

With the amount of phlegm and other unspeakables coming out of me for the last few days, I'd probably be as welcome as typhoid mary on any site at present, haha! Anyhow, if there's assistance needed, unlikely with Phil I'd expect, we still may be struggling finishing something over in Wetherill Pk.

I haven't been on the forum for some time, look what i missed!
Well done guys, good to see them both going to good homes. Richard your moving yours in the wrong direction though! Needs to come south a little bit.
Cheers,
Ew

I have been chatting to the person who ran these machines pretty much since they go them..

What he told me surprised me..

Grout and Darlington first purchased the 10 footer second hand from England in the late 70's...

They then bought a 12 foot grinder.... Sold the 12 foot grinder to someone in WA and bought the 16 footer and the six footer turned up sometime later...

I know the 10 footer is the oldest machine, easily 1940's I would say, but I did not expect it to have been imported second hand from the UK especially in the 1970's as Grout and Darlington started up in the early 1950's... They must have scraped everything by hand in the early days...

Originally Posted by .RC.

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They then bought a 12 foot grinder.... Sold the 12 foot grinder to someone in WA and bought the 16 footer and the six footer turned up sometime later...

I thought the above may have been the origin of this 2010 thread on Practical Machinist, but I see that that Churchill slideways grinder is said to have been bought from Queensland.

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...k-life-207823/

In post #5 Richard is foretelling his destiny.

The VB models like Mark and I bought only came in three length tables... 6ft, 8ft and 10ft.. The table being 24" wide

The VBA model came in 12, 14 and 16ft long tables and the table is 42 inches wide... The VBA also has a much longer arm and has two grinding heads on it... Also the column the arm is attached to sits on a dovetailed base that itself has 15 inches of traverse travel..

Churchill also made a planer type grinder (nh model) as you would expect as they made every sort of grinder ever thought up...

There is I think there is one Waldrich Siegen or Coburg grinder in Melbourne with 10m of travel, it is a planer design... I think Phil mentioned to me years ago it was bought new by Repco back in the day when they made machine tools...

Originally Posted by .RC.

There is I think there is one Waldrich Siegen or Coburg grinder in Melbourne with 10m of travel, it is a planer design...

The Waldrich is a bridge / planer style. Its only 5 metres, or just that on the table stops. The 9.8m machine is a Billiter, same as Marko's down at C.P. Just longer. I got offered it 18 months back. $200k. Same reason G & D are out of business.. It's still there, I can ring in an offer in the morning $175k should do it. Its still the biggest machine in the Southern Hemisphere.

"Creed Beef & Re-Grinding Ranch". I've even done the marketing for you. I've had hours to think while I was driving up here today. Never a good thing.
"Need Beef, Get it ground".
I'll get on Godaddy now and just reserve that domain now.

Phil.

Originally Posted by Machtool

The Waldrich is a bridge / planer style. Its only 5 metres, or just that on the table stops. The 9.8m machine is a Billiter, same as Marko's down at C.P. Just longer. I got offered it 18 months back. $200k. Same reason G & D are out of business.. It's still there, I can ring in an offer in the morning $175k should do it. Its still the biggest machine in the Southern Hemisphere.

Thanks Phil, my memory is getting a bit hazy..

Found a photo of that 9.8m Billiter on their website.

Factory_final.jpg

Maybe we have to start a fundraising bank account, to help members buy some of the old machines, that are more worthy of being saved than sent O/S as scrap metal, god knows there is a lot of scrap metal in farm yards, that is better off going instead of some of the great old machinery. My opinion anyway.
Kryn

Time is nigh, at least until it's time to recommission! Must see a pic of the big bugger being dragged into a container - somehow.

Probably going to be lifted into a container rather then on sliding in..... A bit of a hiccup with that at the moment I believe with the container company...

But mine could possibly be on a truck by about now.. Waiting on a confirmation phone call that all went smoothly


Edit: And it is on the truck and on it's way north... Rather then south to the scrap yard...