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    Lifting heavy things - how to make a toe jack and poor mans load skates

    I needed a way of lifting my lathe and mill to move them around the shed.
    I know other guys on here have machinery so thought I would share
    I had seen a dude on YouTube who made skates and a toe jack so thought it couldn't be to hard

    I got myself a 10ton bottle jack took some measurements and got some 10mm plate laser cut and busted out the welder and made the jack. The only thing I do that you can't see in the pick is add a piece of engineering plastic at the back of the toe cause the toe wants to flex back in to the jack so the polyethylene just stops it flexing as it get sandwiched between the jack and toe.

    I used 4 plates to attach to the top of the jack
    The top plate is just blank
    The second plate has a hole in it to just clear the screw in plate on the top of the jack piston
    The third and forth plate have a hole in then to just clear the piston diameter.

    The plate at the bottom is screwed to the jack via 4 m10 c/s socket head cap screws

    I used it today to lift my 3tonne cnc lathe and move it to position. It worked great.
    If you want you can just lift off the toe and use it as a normal bottle jack .



    I also made some load skates from some 150mm channel that I trimmed down. I milled some holes in it and added some m20 high tensile all thread some h/tensile flat washers and 8 off 6204 bearings on each skate.
    Used them on my mill, manual lathe and cnc lathe


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    Now thats a skate

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    Nice work deano
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    That's awesome, will keep that one in mind when I get some heavy stuff in to the shed at home.
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    Very nice deano very nice indeed.

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    you will be making roller skates in no time at all

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    yep footstraps and a big fucking hill...

    so simple, good work again deano
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    Cool!

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    What a great idea! Nice one Deano.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deano View Post
    I needed a way of lifting my lathe and mill to move them around the shed.
    Ha so you say mate. I know the real reason though is to be able to move my GSX around the next time it's over at your gaff LOL

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    Genius.

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