Machinery Moving Services
Machinery Moving & Workshop Relocation Services - 20 tonnes
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Moving heavy machinery around a workshop is rarely as simple as putting it on a forklift or lifting it with a crane.
- Engineering machinery is often large, heavy, difficult to access and expensive to damage. Tight workshop spaces, uneven access, low overhead clearances and limited lifting points can make relocating equipment a challenging job.
- We can help you move machinery safely around your workshop, re-organise your factory floor, position equipment for crane or forklift access, and coordinate the equipment and transport required to get machinery where it needs to go.
- Whether you're rearranging an existing workshop, preparing machinery for sale, receiving newly purchased equipment or getting machinery ready for transport, we can provide a practical end-to-end solution.
Workshop Machinery Moving
Our core service is the controlled movement of heavy machinery within workshops, factories and industrial premises.
Using specialist machinery-moving equipment and skates, we can move machines weighing up to approximately 20 tonnes (or more in some scenarios) across suitable workshop floors and position them accurately where required.
This can be useful when you need to:
- Re-organise your workshop layout and additional production or storage space,
- Move machinery away from walls or other equipment,
- Prepare machinery for loading and transport,
- Receive and position newly purchased machinery, or
- Assist with workshop re-allocations and equipment rearrangement.
From one machine to an entire workshop
Sometimes you only need one machine moved a few metres. Other times, an entire workshop needs to be re-organised.
We can work with you to determine the most practical way to move the equipment, considering the machine's weight, dimensions, centre of gravity, available access and the route through the workshop.
The objective is simple: get your machinery where it needs to be without unnecessary handling, downtime or disruption, or damage.
Preparing Machinery for Crane or Forklift Loading
One of the most useful parts of our service is getting heavy machinery into the right position for loading.
A machine may be perfectly accessible once it is sitting in the right location — but getting it there can be the difficult part.
We can skate machinery across the workshop floor and position it so that a crane or forklift can subsequently access it for loading onto a truck.
This can eliminate a lot of the difficulty involved in trying to get large machinery directly onto lifting equipment.
For example:
Machine inside workshop→ jack off the ground using a toe jack → skate into loading position → crane or forklift access → load onto truck → transport to destination.
We can coordinate the different stages so the loading process is planned before the machinery arrives at the loading point.
Machinery Loading & Transport Coordination
Need more than just the machinery moved?
We can also help coordinate the other parts of the job.
Depending on your requirements, we can assist with organising:
- Heavy haulage and machinery transport,
- Franna crane hire or forklift hire,
- Site access requirements, and
- Machinery positioning before and after transport.
This means you don't necessarily need to organise several different contractors yourself.
We can help coordinate the moving, lifting and transport requirements so that the process works as one job.
Moving Engineering Machinery
Our experience with engineering machinery means we understand that moving a machine isn't simply a matter of knowing its weight.
Machines can have:
- High or offset centres of gravity,
- Delicate components,
- Protruding parts,
- Limited lifting points,
- Small or specialised bases,
- Long machine beds,
- Sensitive alignment requirements, and
- Restricted access around the machine.
Examples of equipment we can assist with include:
- Lathes,
- CNC machines,
- Machining centres,
- Milling machines,
- Press-brakes,
- Guillotines,
- Fabrication equipment,
- Compressors,
- Industrial equipment, and
- General bulk machinery.
If you aren't sure whether your equipment can be moved using skates, talk to us before attempting to move it yourself.
Machinery Relocation for Buyers & Sellers
Buying or selling used machinery often creates a logistical problem.
The machine may be sitting in a workshop with limited access, while the buyer needs it loaded onto a truck.
We can assist with the physical relocation of the machine and help organise the crane, forklift and transport requirements necessary to get it on its way.
For machinery sellers, this can make the sale process considerably easier.
For buyers, we can help turn:
"The machine is sitting in that corner of the workshop."
into:
"The machine is loaded and ready for transport."
Need a Machine Moved?
If you have heavy engineering equipment that needs to be moved around a workshop, loaded for transport or positioned for crane or forklift access, talk to us.
Tell us what you're moving, approximately how much it weighs, where it is located and where it needs to go.
Photos, machine dimensions and approximate weights are helpful when planning the job.
We'll help determine what equipment and access requirements are likely to be involved and, where required, help coordinate the crane, forklift and transport components.
Machinery moving up to 20 tonnes
Workshop relocation • Machinery positioning • Crane loading preparation • Forklift access • Transport coordination
Contact Butcher Machines and Tooling today to discuss your machinery-moving requirements.