Turn light poles for fun or profit!

[QSIMDO]

Bring a trailer.

https://newhaven.craigslist.org/tls/d/bridgeport-lehman-32-360-engine-lathe/7311296133.html

[Dragons_fire]

anyone wanna help carry it into my basement?

[SteveF]

I need to make a 3" long bolt for my trailer. That will be perfect!!

[I make chips]

The far end is in a different zip and area code.

[mattthemuppet]

it's so long you can barely see the headstock in the pics taken from the tailstock end..

edit - doh, too slow!

[darylbane]

Thinking of the rigging, hauling and leveling setup, gives me the willies. The stuff nightmares are made of.

[The Metal Butcher]

That is a money maker for someone.

[JRouche]

That is a money maker for someone.

Big time. Not just Some One. More like Some Two people, with two carriages. JR

[JRouche]

Thinking of the rigging, hauling and leveling setup, gives me the willies. The stuff nightmares are made of.

Right!! How in the world do you even start? Make a fixture? JR

[nickel-city-fab]

That is a money maker for someone.

X2. There is a shop in my area with stuff like that, dating back over a hundred years. He gets those jobs because he's the only one around with the big stuff. VTL with an 18' chuck, HBM with a 24' table, etc etc. Told me once that he only does one or two jobs a year and it pays for the whole place. He got the machines for free because he bought it as an abandoned industrial site for the back taxes.

[754]

That will only do skinny slender ones, this one for shorter fatter ones..

[The Metal Butcher]

Right!! How in the world do you even start? Make a fixture? JR

Some folks just fork em right in the middle and lift. I'd probably go for two on that machine...

There was actually one of these locally to me on FB marketplace a while back. Started at $7k I think and maybe later dropped to 5k. I think the swing was the same but the bed was half the length. I'm not sure if it sold.

[rdfeil]

The thing I did not see were the required 4 steady rests.

[Paul Alciatore]

The funny thing is it will probably go for a fraction of their asking price. There are not many who can actually use a big lathe like that and often they will be looking at a new machine.

Or wind up rusting away, out in the rain and weather until they haul it to a scrap yard in pieces.

[nickel-city-fab]

And yet, it's perfect for hydraulic cylinder repair