Most difficult Machine moves!

Teknotoyz

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THis may have been discussed before, but I have to wonder if everyone has the problems I have with moving machines. A set of steps would work wonders for me!

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me and 2 guys moving a full sized wac a mole machine into my old games room at my old house , thay thing weighed every bit of 800 lbs. what a bitch to maneuver down the stairs. but we did it and with only one broken bulb. it stayed with the house when I moved , whether the new owners wanted it or not
 
My toughest machine move has to be my 6 player X-Men being moved into the basement. First the entire door and frame had to be taken off so the largest piece would fit through. Then one of the walls of the stairway had to be opened up so it could make the turn at the bottom of the stairs. Well worth it. :)

I also have a buddy with a SF Rush machine. He had to use some heavy machinery and cut the thing in half to get it into his basement.

BTW, that pic reminds me of the KLOV member that got 2 computer space machines from the loft of a barn that was ready to collapse.
 
Most difficult move...

A Centipede up to an 18' 2nd floor... with a 90 degree landing... and of course they were 6 month old real wood floors. BTW... the landing was too small to pivot the machine. Yeah... fun... and it wasn't even my machine any more (I sold it to her).

2nd worst was a Spy Hunter pinball down from above the RV garage...straight shot wasn't a problem, the fact the door at the bottom was 90 degrees to the left was.
 
I went to get a game for jfruge in San Francisco the guy lived on a hill and I had to take it down 30 steps..Then I had to drive and hour home.My back was hurting..

Then my Outrunners cab almost killed me it came off the ramp and pinned me against my truck.Its a good thing my dad was there or I would have been in trouble.
 
I've delivered to a customer that we needed to use a bucket-lift to get a couple games to the 2nd floor of a converted barn, too.


My worst move (besides trying to get a pinball up a spiral staircase or a Cruisin USA down a staircase with a 180-degree turn and a very small landing) was moving one of these from the 2nd floor of one house to the 2nd floor of another house using a 30" wide elevator in both locations. It weighs 1200-lbs when all put together...

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Not too bad considering what others have gone through, but my worst was getting games in and out of a Mother in Law basement place I was renting. The fridge had to be disconnected each time and moved across the kitchen or else the game wouldn't make it in the front door. So move that first, then go down eight stairs, and lift the game to waist height to clear the kitchen counter. It was a two person job, and the man in back was still on the stairs, hunched over, lifting the game up, while the front man was working around the kitchen counter.

I moved one game in like that, and then stuck the 2nd (my first 2 games) at my girlfriend's place.
 
For Mudhens1, it would probably be my hard driven UP. I won it at an auction. I had Severe 4-wheeler accident few days before that. I was not worth 2cents. I can only remember bits and pieces of that day, but I do know he was not happy having to deal with it :) I tease him now about it, lol. That game weighed a ton and Mudhens1 was doing most (near all) the moving.

Kevin
 
My worst was my first. Walkout basement, could drive the truck right up to the sliding doors, piece of cake right? Well, the basement was just FULL of shit. I had to move piles of garbage and clothing and god knows what just to get to the game. Dunno how people live like that.
 
I've delivered to a customer that we needed to use a bucket-lift to get a couple games to the 2nd floor of a converted barn, too.


My worst move (besides trying to get a pinball up a spiral staircase or a Cruisin USA down a staircase with a 180-degree turn and a very small landing) was moving one of these from the 2nd floor of one house to the 2nd floor of another house using a 30" wide elevator in both locations. It weighs 1200-lbs when all put together...

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where can i get one of these games and how much?
 
Took a forklift to get my ATV Track into the truck earlier this year.. Still looking for 12 guys to help me lift it out.. lol.. Ok, it took 4 guys and the machine was in two sections. I am not sure if this was the worst or if it was a Space Gun machine that I had to dig up out of a basement location. Had to drag it up a muddy hill about 40 feet. Took 3 of us pushing and pulling. That might of been the worst actually..

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