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Ed in Tampa wrote:I hope Bill Mayo chimes in. He has a contractor ShopSmith made especially for taking to the job site.

Isn't that the "wagon configuration" in post #2 of this thread?

dusty wrote:Isn't that the "wagon configuration" in post #2 of this thread?

I actually didn't see the credit given to Bill when I first posted my post Dusty.

However I thought Bill had another model for out of shop usage. Perhaps I'm wrong.

In any case I know Bill knows most of the pitfalls on doing this. Such as wheel size and such.

We need to hear from Bill

mbcabinetmaker wrote:I have needed to take my 510 to several job sights lately. I am trying to come up with some way to transport it over rough terrain from my enclosed trailer to the job sight. The factory casters are great for concrete floors but not any help for good old uneven ground, rough asphalt or even muddy freshly graded job sights. I plan to leave the casters in place and do not want to add to the over all height. Put on you thinking hats!:)

Something wrong with the 5/32" wrench and 9/16" wrench and gone method?:D

How about something like this? The table on this one is 19 3/4" wide - might need some special tube holders welded to fit beneath the 510 and hold it securely.

http://www.harborfreight.com/1000-lb-capacity-hydraulic-scissor-table-cart-93116.html

JPG40504 wrote:Something wrong with the 5/32" wrench and 9/16" wrench and gone method?:D

Nothing wrong with the going part but reassembly and alignment is a killer.:D

Isn't Bills machine a wheelbarrow front end with handles at the rear? Looks real useful.

jm51 wrote:Isn't Bills machine a wheelbarrow front end with handles at the rear? Looks real useful.

I think Hardly knot! It's more a bench with wheels on one end and a tow hitch on the other end.

Reviving this thread since I have reason to look at mobility again now. We have a rental house about 15 to 20 minutes away that needs some kind of serious remodeling. This is now our only rental, we used to deal with 4 of them. This one is a 4 bedroom house that used to be a village store and a block garage/shop that used to be the village automotive garage sitting on about 17 acres of Big Flatrock River which is mostly woods and rocks.
I have an old Craftsman bench tablesaw on a roll-around base that I have taken over there and left there to use in past years but this time due to the extent of work I want to do I'm thinking I want a Shopsmith there to use.
The Shopsmith I take will be stored in the house since it has a little heat going in cold or damp weather and the block building gets pretty damp. I want easy mobility because I may at times want to set up in the screened in porch out front or on the wood deck out back to avoid excess sawdust in the house. I also will be doing some serious work in/on the block building which sits about 75 feet away. All of it will be done in my usual badly organized, on again off again, manner. It will likely take much more time than I really want to give it but it can make us a decent penny over the next few years that it just doesn't command as it sits now.
When I quit for the day and I am beat I don't want to be wrestling a Shopsmith over elevation changes or high thresholds. I want to just grab and roll.
This thread was 2012 and I was wondering if anyone had come up with anything different since then.
One reason I want a Shopsmith there is that I can have a jointer handy and while I only kept one bandsaw I could toss it in the old work van and take it along if I really needed it. I do have several of the old SS jigsaws and they are good at many cuts that a bandsaw can do. Of course there is a lot of sanding capability there too as well as other SS functions. Makes just a tablesaw seem almost useless.

Any new mobility ideas?


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I was wondering if one of those portable saw stands like I have for my miter saw could be adapted? Maybe take the legs off the SS and attach the bottom tubes to that stand. When in storage mode the left side clears the floor and maybe when set up for use, the head stock needs to be moved along the upper tubes to keep everything balanced ? Could a second stand be configured to hold all the SPTs with some sort of cam lock for each one so you only have two pieces to fold and go?

Just a thought.

Be well,
Ben

Ed in Tampa wrote:I hope Bill Mayo chimes in. He has a contractor ShopSmith made especially for taking to the job site.

My construction Shopsmith is pictured above. It was moved to job sites on a tillable trailer. I used a 2 KW invertor for power. Since I quit going to jog sites, I removed the 10" wheels and trailer tongue and mounted 4" casters at each end. This is now my primary Shopsmith. It has a reversible motor now.