Anyone on here moved a Pistorius Double Mitre Saw?

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Hey,
I just bought the contents of the frame store I used to work for.
I was moving everything this weekend (should have been last weekend, but we got a hurricane).
When we got to try to move the Pistorius, it just wouldn't budge.
Any thoughts.
Please, and thanks,

Brian
 
Thoughts...yes...it's very heavy!!!

Remove the wings (infeed and outfeed arms)

You'll have the central mass left. It will be just as heavy, but less of a hassle to move.

When I moved mine, I tilted the machine and placed a moving dolly beneath it and then muscled the other side up onto it. It was pretty easy to roll after that.
 
I bought an EMN-12 a couple of years ago. Two of use were able to move it from Phily to Wilkes-Barre with some mechanical assistance.

After taking off the extensions, we tilted it to get a simple furniture dolly under the saw. Not easy but it can be done.

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We then used a pair of loading ramps
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and a heavy duty winch to winch it into my Chevy Express Van. The winch was anchored to a 4x4 placed in front of the front seats.

Once on the Van it was straped on all four sides with very heavy duty ratchet tie Downs (800lb limit if I remember right). It is very important to do this right so the saw doesn't go out the side of the van. We didn't take it off the dolly but used large wood wedges to lock the wheels.

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After getting to Wilkes Barre, it was a little tougher getting it out of the van. It was going from the van bed to a loading dock that was about a foot above the van bed. We had nothing to attach the winch to, so we had to pull it out.

On both ends, moving it on the furniture dolly wasn't a problem. It moved smoothly over concrete and asphalt. Not something I would want to do daily but with proper planning and equipment, it should go smoothly.
 
When I replaced our EMN I rented a truck, picked it up at the truck terminal, drove it back to the shop, unloaded it and moved it through the back room to the saw room by myself. It wasn't easy and I took quite a few breaks but it's doable.
 
Moved several of them a bunch of times. Last time I paid 5 Mexicans (that's how they referred to themselves) to carry it accross the parking lot into the new building. Easiest if you have an appliance dolly and a low loading truck. Two 4"x4" about 2 feet long will be needed if it is manual stroke. Dolly on the front of the saw and strap it down and if the foot pedal is in the way lay one of the 4x4's at the base and the other near the top of the cabinet portion. Removing the blades eliminates 20-30 pounds.

Moved a 14" with Dave at Frame Makers in the rain with a truck that had a ramp. He was pulling as I was pushing it up the ramp when his feet sliiped from the rain. Dave ended up trapped under the saw (about 600 lbs) on the ramp for a minute ot two. Easiest to move with 4 people.

The saw itself without the extensions runs between 500-700 pounds.
 
I guess it is possible. It is resting on a 2 inch tall wooden rack. I thought is was bolted to that rack. Maybe it's bolted to more than that.
Its an MN-200. One site I saw listed it's weight as 310 lbs, while another lists it at 850 lbs.
 
The 2 weights are most likely the weight with no motors or extensions on the low end and with everything on the high end.
 
The 2 weights are most likely the weight with no motors or extensions on the low end and with everything on the high end.

I've seen pretty much every weight in between those extremes listed.
We had considered removing the upper portion of the saw to move that first, and then the base.

2 people couldn't budge the machine at all. Granted that was 2 people after loading a truck for 8 hours.
 
Yep!!

When I sold my Pistorius I borrowed a pallet jack from a neighbouring furniture store and hired a "Hyab" truck with two "heavies" plus yours truly (75kg soaking wet) and conscripted a burly neighbour.

After removing the support arms we rocked it onto the pallet jack and wheeled it out the back door to the rear alley where the truck was waiting. The Hyab truck has a neat little (Hyab) hydraulic crane mounted behind the cab and it just hoisted the machine on board as easy as that. The purchaser had a huge warehouse so they drove the truck inside and plonked it down right where he wanted it.

Total cost for the two men plus the truck for about an hour was $AUD150 which we thought was pretty reasonable.
 
4 people
2 Hand trucks
1 Furniture Dolly
1 Loading Ramp on Truck
All Set
 
how did the move go...
 
Robert Buchalter

Recently moved my entire 40 year old frame shop from a main street downtown location into a warehouse showroom.
moulding, equipment and everything in between. Worried for months about my two pistorius emn's. Rented a Penske truck with a ramp and a couple of hired muscle guys. Bought at Harbour Freight for $49.00 a heavy duty hand truck with big air filled wheels. After removing the in-feed and measuring arms the hand truck fit perfectly from the rear between the motors. What I feared the most took less than two minutes up the ramp into the truck. Good luck with yours.
 
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