Transporting a lathe from Halifax to Brentwood, Essex

[robinessex]

I've bought a new toy for the man shed, a lathe. Need to get it from Halifax to Brentwood, Essex. Weight 500kg. One slight problem is I live in a cul de sac, so only a Transit sized vehicle will be able to get down it. No lifting gear my end. Can anyone help?

[Fastdruid]

What size lathe?

I've transported mine (Harrison L5 ~400Kg) with an engine hoist, fork lift trolley in a luton with tail lift.

There are companies which do transport but pick wisely, when I got mine despite advising that I'd need it to be delivered to the ground the company I went with just stuck it in the back of a transit (by fork lift), not enough height on my engine hoist to lift it and no way to get it out. I had to hire a van and collect it from their depot. Totally useless, can't remember the name now but it was one that advertised on ebay for machinery moving.

[robinessex]

I could go the Luton Transit route, but by the time I've made a wheeled platform to put it on so I can get it out the other end, and heaved and struggled, if I could get it collected for a reasonable fee, I'd be happy. A small HIAB unit on Transit sized truck would be perfect would be perfect. Someone on an empty return trip wouuld be perfect.

[Johnnytheboy]

Can you hire/borrow a manual pallet truck? Coupled with tail lift van?

[robinessex]

My brother inlaw works part time for Truck/Van rental company, so I can get a 50% discount. It's getting it off that's the difficulty. Slightly up hill to the garage on roughish concrete. Plus dragging it from the van bulkhead out onto the tail lift. I've got a method sorted, but I'm going to have to make a flat trolley with 6 castor wheels from Machine Mart to mount it when collected, on so I can fairly easily pull it off onto the tail lift, drop it to near the ground, reverse, drop tail lift onto the garage floor, and then finally pull it off.