Patience, a 9’ pry lever, some iron pipe for rollers, and a stack of 2x6 cut offs will handle moving pretty much any machine around the shop. (A pry lever is a

Patience, a 9’ pry lever, some iron pipe for rollers, and a stack of 2x6 cut offs will handle moving pretty much any machine around the shop. (A pry lever is a long lever with a pair of small sturdy wheels to act as a fulcrum and a short metal tang to jam under equipment. Mine gives me maybe a 2” lift for a 5’ sweep of the handle, so something like a 30:1 advantage.) Mostly it is just lift-pivot-lower repeated many times to walk a machine along. For longer distances I’ll get it aimed right and up on rollers. For raising or lowering you need an assistant to put the cribbing in or out, but raising a ton of lathe 2 feet to work on the motor underneath is pretty easy, just always have secure cribbing in place so it can’t fall.