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Toe aC, NEN NE TLL CT. NI I I I II Nm A I I IM I I IE I IT MH == "2 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, January 23, 1999 Len Wall casts an anxious eye as the 40 ton press Is carefully lifted and swung Into place in front of the ware- house door. it was then pushed into storage. BABYS ByTLE The * COMFORTABLE * CONVENIENT * ECONOMICAL * ENVIRONMENTAL * CHOICE For a Free Consultation call today: 642-1780 100 Main Street West, Stouffville Daisy's Fabrics 10th ANNIVERSARY Sale from January 16th to February 2nd, 1990 located in Luke's Country Store 201 QUEEN ST., PORT PERRY 985-3221 Old fashioned muscle and know-how needed to move forty ton press How do you get a 40 ton press off the back of a flat-bed truck and into a warehouse for storage. Well, you need some iron to start: everything from numer- ous large chains and cables , two big I beams and a mam- moth self-propelled crane capa- ble of hoisting 115 tons. Then you need some old fashioned muscle and know- how. And finally, you'd best put aside the better of a day to do the job carefully. After all, when 40 tons of metal press is swinging in the air, you want to be sure you've done everything right. Things went just right for a hard-working crew at the In- dustrial Machinery Movers Warehouse at the Reach Indus- trial Park last Thursday. Their job was to get the card-board punch press off a float truck, set it down on four small dollies, so it could be nudged into the warehouse where it will be stored for sever- al months before shipped to a new factory going up in Whitby. Leo Wall and his crew, along with crane operator Colin Johnson of Oshawa, spent sev- eral hours making sure all the cables and chains were at- tached in just the right places. And finally, the huge piece of machinery was gingerly lift- ed off the truck, swing sharply to the left and set very carefully on the ramp in front of the bay door of the warehouse. Leo, who owns the ware- house and runs Industrial Ma- chinery Movers, said the lift went without a hitch. While the crew spent sever- al hours setting up for the lift, the press was actually in the air no more than five minutes. When you've got 40 tons of metal hanging by four cables, it pays to have done your home- work first. And it wasn't cheap, either. The cost of moving th. press by truck, then lifting if off and roll- ing it into the warehouse: about #4 Wheeler. When the lift was over, the crew posed for a Ross Oddi, float driver, Len Wall, Gary Watson, ator, Vern Meyer, Lou Whalen, Keith McTaggart, crane ope $18,000. In less than a year, they'll do it again. Only this time, the Gary Watson and Ralph Wheeler make sure the chains trick will be to get it back on the float truck for shipping to the Whitby factory. are "just right" before the press Is lifted in the air. photo In front of the press. From left: Colin Johnson, crane oper- rator apprentice, and Ralph Matson Angus,