Moving & Placing Base Unit - Grizzly G0636X Owner's Manual

Moving & Placing
Base Unit
This is an extremely heavy machine. Serious
personal injury may occur if safe moving
methods are not followed. To be safe, you
will need assistance and a forklift or a hoist
when removing the machine from the crate.
Use a chain or a lifting strap with a minimum
of 1000 lbs. lifting capacity. If the chain or
lifting strap breaks, serious personal injury
may occur.
Take special care when moving this bandsaw.
Only use the following methods to lift or move this
bandsaw.
To move and place bandsaw:
1. Use a forklift to move bandsaw on the pallet
to its final location.
2.
Unbolt bandsaw from pallet.
3. Install eye bolts shown in Figure 7, making
sure they are threaded all the way in, then
place lifting hooks through eye bolts and lift
slowly with a forklift.
4. Remove pallet and slowly set bandsaw into
position.
Figure 7. Lifting the bandsaw.
Model G0636X (Mfd. Since 09/18)
To move and place the bandsaw using wood
shims:
1.
Use a forklift to move bandsaw on the pallet
to its final location.
2. Carefully place forklift forks under head and
install a 1x4 shim between the head and the
left fork, and a 2x4 shim between the head
and right fork so bandsaw is level, as shown
in Figure 8.
3.
Unbolt bandsaw from pallet.
Figure 8. Example of lifting bandsaw with forklift
using wood shims.
4. Lift bandsaw off of pallet, remove pallet, and
slowly set bandsaw into position.
Note: If you are concerned about your forklift
forks hitting the tension handwheel, remove the
handwheel, then re-install it after lifting.
2x4
1x4
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