Guys from the Manning Mens shed spent last sunday partially dismantling an old 24" wide Wilson Thicknesser in preparation of getting it out of the previous owner's shed.
Today we went back to move it from the shed to the driveway in preparation for a rear lift truck pickup next week.
The shed door is 1m wide and after removing the cutter and drive head assembly and the drive gearbox on the side we had 50 mm clearance at the door.
We could just lift one end of the reduced weight thicknesser with a small but very manoeuvrable 400 kg lift pallet lifter.
This enabled us to get the thicknesser up on blocks to get a full size pallet lifter underneath it.
The thicknesser belonged to the husband of the lady in the photo and we will be naming it "Tom" after her husband.
Then using the pallet lifter we moved the unit out of the shed, across a brick paved patio to a step about 150 mm down to a brick paving path where we placed a pallet.
Unfortunately the path (and hence pallet) had to be placed at at an angle to the step and so we bridged the angled gap with bricks and ply, until the top of the pallet was level with the top of the step which enabled us to just roll the pallet and pallet lifter straight onto the pallet.
Then we transferred the pallet lifter to the pallet and moved the whole lot out to the driveway.
Here is a photo of part of the motor, cutting head and drive assembly and gearbox, which is all gear driven.
The motor is ∆/Y 7.5HP unit
Close up of the label.
Getting this back up and running is going to be a major project
Today we went back to move it from the shed to the driveway in preparation for a rear lift truck pickup next week.
The shed door is 1m wide and after removing the cutter and drive head assembly and the drive gearbox on the side we had 50 mm clearance at the door.
We could just lift one end of the reduced weight thicknesser with a small but very manoeuvrable 400 kg lift pallet lifter.
This enabled us to get the thicknesser up on blocks to get a full size pallet lifter underneath it.
The thicknesser belonged to the husband of the lady in the photo and we will be naming it "Tom" after her husband.
Then using the pallet lifter we moved the unit out of the shed, across a brick paved patio to a step about 150 mm down to a brick paving path where we placed a pallet.
Unfortunately the path (and hence pallet) had to be placed at at an angle to the step and so we bridged the angled gap with bricks and ply, until the top of the pallet was level with the top of the step which enabled us to just roll the pallet and pallet lifter straight onto the pallet.
Then we transferred the pallet lifter to the pallet and moved the whole lot out to the driveway.
Here is a photo of part of the motor, cutting head and drive assembly and gearbox, which is all gear driven.
The motor is ∆/Y 7.5HP unit
Close up of the label.
Getting this back up and running is going to be a major project
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