A fab shop I worked for many years ago, the "manager" bought a very used 400 ton mechanical press, had it shipped from Detroit to Texas.
You look in the dictionary under useless junk, it's picture would be there! LOL
After having a pit cut and poured in the slab, a penthouse added to the roof for it to stand in, rewiring, replumbing, 10,000 hours of riggers, electricians, outside contractors, his "bargain press" was finally ready to power up.
It ran a few months, then the home made fiber back gear that drove the crank gear flew apart, massive damage, bent shafts, broken 3" studs, major mess, my job to fix it...
Had to take the flywheel down with the big forklift, which was about 1/4 the capacity it needed to be, and about 6' short of the height it would go. The solution was to build a pallet and shipping container cradle to make it reach, stack steel plates on the back of the lift to keep it from tipping over, and as many volunteers to hang on the back as necessary to keep it down!
Once the flywheel was down, the rest of the behemoth had to come down, one piece at a time, working off ladders, forklift with a pallet across the forks, whatever necessary to get 'er done!
Come to find out all this had been done before by the previous owner. Quality workmanship was not a priority!
But we got it back together. Didn't have anything to torque 3" nuts with other than a big pipe wrench and a cheater pipe, so I scientifically heated the studs one at a time with the rosebud, screwed them in, ran the nut down and tightened all I could get with the pipe wrench and cheater.
Amazingly it all worked! Nothing fell or got dropped, no amputations, concussions, and only minimal PTSD! Thank goodness OSHA didn't walk in!
But that press was jinxed! Shortly after a worker managed to find a way around the light curtains and get his arm crushed! Then a few years after I had moved on, I heard they crashed it. This time they didn't have anyone willing to repair it, so it was sold for scrap.
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