How to get Bandsaw delivered

[Stwood_]

Trip to HF and get a couple of large furniture dollies. More than likely it will be on a lift gate.
Back into the drive afap, offload on the dollies.
Have a crisp 50 ready for the driver if he goes beyond the usual unloading.

[ez-duzit]

...how does a single, old man get the saw up the driveway slope and into the garage?...

By hiring it done. This is not a problem for anyone willing to pay for needed service.

[Bob10]

Dollies and a ***** along or a rope and pulley.  As for the hand truck it could get away from you depending on strength.  Hell if it comes in an upright crate you could walk it up again depending strength and slope of driveway.  Imagine a small refrigerator, and what it would take for that.  No idea why people focus on the weight of a machine while most would not think twice about an appliance

[messmaker]

I have a bad back also.
Hire it done. That is what movers do.

[dg152]

I've moved a lot of heavy equipment by myself with an engine hoist. If, as others have mentioned, the delivery driver will not move your new bandsaw into your garage then get an engine hoist. You can lift it off the pallet and out of the box. As I recall, my Grizzly came in need of assembly. Depending on the model you will need to assemble the stand then lift the bandsaw to the top of the stand.

Let us know how it goes and be sure to post pic of your new saw!

[cputnam]

Thanks guys

Hiring it done is looking like the best option. I spent the last year and ½ in a wheelchair resulting in much muscle atrophy. The ceiling is drywall over trusses made from 2x4s and is only 9' high. Shipping height on the saw is 81" - IIRC. Only place to anchor a come-along is either in the slab or wall studs. I wouldn't trust either. Driveway slope is about 2' (+- 6") over 20'. With any luck, once in the shop, I'll be able to just slide it off the shipping pallet onto the mobile base. We'll see.

[stav]

Congrats on the new saw. Make sure you check it out before allowing the driver to leave.  You don't want to end up with a damaged saw and no recourse since you already signed off on it.

[CLETUS]

  Shipping height on the saw is 81" - IIRC.  

You might want to make sure you don't have an issue with your garage door opening height.

[cputnam]

Thanks. Yeah, after I blithely told them no problem, Immediately went out and checked. Minimum height is 84"

[jteneyck]

Thanks.  Yeah, after I blithely told them no problem, Immediately went out and checked.  Minimum height is 84"

My Grizzly arrived on two pallets.  



We had to get it off both in order to get it under the garage door.  Even then, I had to prop the door up higher than normal.  I put doubled 2x4's under the top pallet and jacked those up with floor jacks.  That allowed us to pull out the lower pallet.  



Then I used a winch attached to the concrete wall at the far end of the garage to pull the saw off the factory pallet and onto plywood and then on into the garage.






This was the easy part.  Getting it through the house door and then down into my basement shop was a whole 'nother adventure.  

John