If you are able to break it down to liftable chunks and have some experience of sliding things up scaffold planks with an assistant then probably feasible but you might find the difficult bit is getting it out as lifting over that lip is more awkward when it is inside. I would budget for two trips just to be on the safe side. I have moved a Boxford in an 850cc Perodua Nippa, and a pilar drill (advantage of being able to take the front seat out too) but the worst for the springs was the 24 in garden roller.
However I would check the cost of hiring a transit, still breaking it down a lot as you can’t tie stuff down that easily in a transit.

Dont know too much about that machine, but I DO know that getting things into a car boot and getting them out again are not quite the same thing !

I t may cost a few quid to hire/beg a van, but will be well worth it. I have moved stuff for my own use and for friends, with my Hi Ace, which would have been “difficult” to move by car, and removing heavy items from car boots is NOT kind to the back !A few good planks to form a ramp, along with a few pinchbars will move most things.  Ask around, someone knows someone who has a van.

Blind leading the blind since I’ve only thought about it myself and never done it, but a small trailer (£100 second hand) might do what you want as far as having a lower loading area. Still costs money but at the end of the day you still have a trailer to use again.

Hi, a trailer would be my preferred way, I fetched my Boxford lathe all the way from Glasgow with my trailer, behind a Cavalier, about 20 years ago with no dismantling needed, was about 360 miles or so away.

Regards Nick.

IF you have a draw bar then the easy way is to borrow, hire or buy a trailer ! It will save the dismantling or damage to the car (or yourself ). A couple of ratchet straps and a few bits of rope and may be a sheet in case it rains. If taking this route bear in mind that MOST machine tools are top heavy, consider this when tieing down ! A local motor factor will make a number plate but remember to take the log book with you – some get funny if you don’t. There may be some one on here who could help ? where are you ? Good luck. Noel.

On 9 September 2024 at 11:04 noel shelley Said:

IF you have a draw bar then the easy way is to borrow, hire or buy a trailer ! It will save the dismantling or damage to the car (or yourself ). A couple of ratchet straps and a few bits of rope and may be a sheet in case it rains. If taking this route bear in mind that MOST machine tools are top heavy, consider this when tieing down ! A local motor factor will make a number plate but remember to take the log book with you – some get funny if you don’t. There may be some one on here who could help ? where are you ? Good luck. Noel.

If you ask for a square number plate, you probably won’t need the V5 and ID.

If I had to hire a trailer to move a machine, I’d spend the extra and get a van with a tail lift. Moving heavy, unbalanced machinery is not as simple as it looks.

It would be useful to know the weight of the machine.

I found a reference that indicated less than 160kg.  That should be a reasonable doddle of a job.  I regularly shifted 3 1/2 cwt Raglan lathes in my Pogo 205 and Citroen Saxo on my tod.

Rear seat squab removed to allow rear seats to lie flat.  A piece of 18mm ply as long as practical. Machine laid on sheet and pivoted/slid into boot.  Reverse on retrieval from boot.n just needed a sack barrow to move the machine outside the car.

The most recent was a dismantled Raglan mill, including base – it all fitted inside my Pogo 106.  I thought I might need to put the base on the roof, but it all squeezed in.

My last heavy item was a 150kg battery, earlier this year.  That was slid into the car on an old shortened fire door from a fork lift and eventually removed with the aid of a tele-handler.