Moving a Polar Cutter

Is the knife completely away? If yes, you can try it.

There might be a transportation pin hole. Check along the travel way of the guillotine. Be careful, if it is a mechanical one the knife can fall down partially or just enough to cut fingers.

If that knife still shows, don't take no forks, even with wood between. You could end up with a bended knife. Success

I should take a big pry bar and lift it a bit, put wood underneath at different spots, so that the forklift can take it at th bottom. Will be easier to put it on a truck (on wood) if needed. Take a forklift that can handle the weight.

Is a Polar guillotine just a normal guillotine that's undergone a coordinate transform?

here are some - copy and paste

http://www.polarsales.co.uk/

The maker would be glad to help you. Just ask

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When moving the smaller Polar cutters you can do so with the bed attached and pick it up using the clap as a lift point.

Here is how its done providing you have removed the anchor bolts and disconnected the power.

Put some cardboard between the clamp (Use the false clamp plate) and your forks at the widest point you can open them and still fit in the clamp opening.

Use a strap from the back of the bed to the headache rack after you have gotten the forks to meet up with the clamp. This is to control the tilt as the cutter will be heavy in the back.

After you have gotten everything set to lift slowly rais the forks until the base of the cutter just clears the floor.

Tighten the strap to equalize the weight and balance the load.

Slowly move the cutter to its new location.

Installation is reverse of the removal.

Level the cutter, bolt it down and hook up the power.

Thats about it.