Rival 41C Land Transport and Lifting - Costs

[mm5aho]

Good info, thanks for sharing.
Was it the Hiab type crane in the foreground (pic 3) that was used for the lift?
How heavy is a R41C?

[Nick]

Great post.

I like the idea of the web slings being available to Bluemomenters. That is the sort of thing that makes running this forum worthwhile.

[SteveN]

Nice report - thank you.
I'm glad it all worked out so well as you seem to have been planning this for a wee while now.
I'm very jealous as I've always fancied bring my boat home to be worked upon for the winter.
We have the room but it would require a Chinook for the final lift, which would add to costs considerably..

I'm suprised by how cheap the transit was and how expensive the lift onto transport was. £450 for a lift onto a lorry? - I think I'll continue to keep well away from the Scottish Solent.

I hope the refit goes well.

[claymore]

Now - a Chinook available to bluemomenters - that really would be something.

[marisca]

Don't have a price but http://www.helifor.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=28 claim a 27,000lb lift lift.

[DaveS]

Don't have a price but http://www.helifor.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=28 claim a 27,000lb lift lift.

Hmm, 12 tons in old money - impressive!

(I can't be done with this Merkin habit of quoting weight in thousands of pounds - it always seems very clumsy. Not that we're entirely free of it on this side of the pond: the manual for my old Colchester lathe quotes its weight as 1500 lb.)

[claymore]

You see- isn't that just life in a blue suit? There we are fantasising pleasantly about a forum heliocopeter and it all gets technical. I just hope you realise that should the loony left get the yes vote, you'll have to be returning yon heavy lathe, an its an awfy lang way tae Colchester.

[DaveS]

You see- isn't that just life in a blue suit? There we are fantasising pleasantly about a forum heliocopeter and it all gets technical. I just hope you realise that should the loony left get the yes vote, you'll have to be returning yon heavy lathe, an its an awfy lang way tae Colchester.

The Colchester factory is, sadly, long shut. The world no longer turns on Colchester lathes it would seem. I visited it once in the 1980s on the promise of a quick tour, but they were having industrial relations "issues" that day, so no tour possible.

[claymore]

Is there not a Cumbernauld lathe ye could do a spot of turning on?

[DaveS]

Is there not a Cumbernauld lathe ye could do a spot of turning on?

Well the lathe used to live in Cumbernauld, but now it lives in Falkirk.