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Don't have time to, wife is starting to get upset with how much time I have been working on this project, crazy it has been almost a year. I was thinking of putting 5/8 Rod through the side of the cabinet so I could lift if needed. My rough calculations it should be about 800 pounds.

Alright @porkchopsmmm , it's been a couple years since I have dumped a bag of cement on the ground, today I dumped 10!

So we removed the mill

poor sad little stand

I removed the middle shelf

And flipped the stand over, this is an issue, I can't fill it with cement since the bottom has a solid piece

So I broke out the plasma cutter

adios my friend

I grabbed a piece of 6x6 wire

and stuck it in the bottom of the stand

I mixed up some cement and dumped it in

I used a ratchet strap around the stand

and kept adding 6 inches of cement and did another layer of wire

almost to the top

screened it off with a two foot level, need to let it set up before we put the mill back on top

I hope not, should be right around 800 pounds, I was debating putting anchor bolts inside before I poured but if I wanted to move it that would be impossible. I can put steel rods all the way through the square channel at the front and back and lift it with the engine hoist if needed. Going to let it set up some more and then drill the corners and use either leaded lag shields and bolts or expanders to mount the mill, not sure which one I am going to use yet.

spent the last couple days getting the lathe leveled, I really hate these sheet metal stands, at some point I need to figure something better out but I threw a couple of lag bolts through the back chip shield and it stiffened it up pretty good

I don't have a machinist level so I used my two foot and I don't think I am going to get it any better than that

today is clean up and organize the shop and then start breaking down the lathe and getting all the cosmoline cleaned off it