What an ordeal but finally got it set. Spent all Saturday trying to locate an engine hoist for rent. All of the places everyone told me rented them, auto parts stores. Home Depot , none of them did. Those places that would were all closed on Saturdays.
Sat down and thought if I knew anyone that had one I could borrow, one gut wouldn't loan his but another buddy told me, "Yeah, I've got one out back in my Sea Van"
Treated him to dinner Saturday night and we loaded it up in the back of his old Toyota P'up and hauled it to my place for the next morning "some assembly required"
Hoisted it off the trailer no problem, set it on a furniture dolly and wheeled it into my garage, then brought the the hoist in to lift it onto the stand.
The sprayed legs were just wide enough to clear the base and move in about 8", needed to go another 18" to set it down, Hmmmmm........
The stand base is 23" wide at the bottom for the first 3", then narrows to 16" up to the platform. Pulled out a bunch of scrap lumber and laid up runners on either side of the base, rolled the dolly with mill up to the front then raised the front wheels on the hoist onto the stacked runners and rolled it forward, lifted the mill enough to pull out the dolly then raised it up high enough to clear the platform.
Rolled it forward but that only got us another 15", still 3" short.
I put the bolts in the mill base, pushed the base forward just enough so that when he slowly lowered the mill the bolt went into the holes on the stand and he continued to lower the hoist. As it came down and began to level it rocked back and the rear bolts aligned with the holes and everything sat down fine.
Whew!!!!!!
Unhooked it, pulled the hoist back, removed the stacked runners and bolted the thing to the stand.
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