Diamond Pacific 24" saw

I take off my tail gate and use my ramps for my car hauler to load big rocks so i dont know why you couldnt do the same for the saw and use a piece of plywood on the rams . Take a comalong and work it off slowly

Thinkin' that I'm gonna go with the come along or a chain hoist off a tree branch. Was hesitant to go that route because it has to be done in the grass as no suitable branches go over driveway. Hesitant because I just spent several thousand two months ago resodding the yard and didn't want to subject the new grass to what's gonna happen here. Screw it, the grass will get over it!
3/4 inch plywood may help

Have to wait for wife unit to get home this evening to go get a come along. Not something I've needed before...
Not going to drive truck around town with Bonnie in the back. Didn't mind 75 down the interstate, but turning corners I want to avoid.

Finally quit raining here, so yard work today, come along tonight, Bonnie set free tomorrow.
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I go to Home Depot A LOT, all hours, and have NEVER seen even ONE of those day workers y'all are talking about. Know what you are talking about, seen such on TV. Doesn't happen in St. Pete - maybe a law? dunno ...


ETA: Just scared to try the ramp thing. Will be doing this alone and just see the potential for something going seriously wrong. Last thing I want to be doing is posting pictures of the saw on it's side or worse. Lifting from above just makes the most sense to me. Seems more controlled. Will git 'er done!

Sounds like the beginnings of a viral video please make sure there is a camera rolling.

Totally kidding ... and not. I wish you success and wish I was close enough to run over and help.

Oh, and can't lift with 2x4s or 4x4s whatever, the bottom isn't flat like on my Highland Park 24.
No where to lift from. Can be strapped to lift from above though. How I got it on truck.

Things just got better. Neighbor came over to see that the big blue thing was and after I told him, went on to explained that I was working on figuring out how to unload it.

Well, he had this nice little toy called Wench in a Bag





Still need to go to Home Depot tonight to get some bolts & shackles, but I have it all figured out how to hook this gizmo up to the house right in front of the garage. Lower saw right on the driveway about 2 feet from where I want to work on it.

Not telling wife that I'm drilling into the house until after it's done!

I am so ordering one of these things!

Tony takes his tailgate off and uses it for a ramp to load huge rocks!!! LOL. I keep telling him he don't love his truck!

Yeah, but you shoukd have seen the chubk of agate he had that rang like a bell.

Alrighty... this was really no big deal unloading - once I had it figured out and a wench! Not sure it's worth sharing as it wasn't very exciting, but we here do like to see pictures of stuff, so here goes -

Decided to run a couple eye-bolts through the beam in front of the garage to hook the wench up to.
Wife probably won't even notice them for two weeks
The small hooks are for Christmas lights for those curious.



Hooked up the borrowed wench with a lifting strap and a couple shackles.



Had to remove the blade to get the come along straps where I wanted them for lifting.
You can see the interior of the saw is a concrete covered mess. Of course it will all be cleaned.



Hooked another lifting strap between the come alongs (used 2 come alongs on each end) and hooked up the wench cable.
Had to lower and move the forward come alongs once to find the balance point.




Things started happening fast once the saw was in the air, and I didn't take pictures of it just hanging there as I pulled the truck out from under the saw and turned it around so I could hook the wench back up to the truck battery. Would have made a good picture hanging there darn it.

On the ground in front of the garage - it's new home while I work on it. Figure a week to clean it all up and get running - unless I have / decide to order any parts.
I'm certainly in no hurry, I like to putter and jump from project to project. We'll see how it goes.




The cap to the drain tube/pipe is missing, but I can probably get a new one at a local machine shop. Maybe easier to just order a new one so I know the threads will match.

Here is a picture of a section of the blade, looks good to me, but...
It is an MK Diamond Products blade - MK505
Thinking that this may not be a lapidary blade, but specifically used for concrete...?
Saw guys comment please -
If it's not for cutting rocks, I've got a couple extra 24" blades out in the garage somewhere. Pretty sure there is a brand new one out there.

ETA: just Googled, and this blade is way thicker than a standard lapidary blade. .155" on this one vs .100" for the MK 303 - lotta waste even if it could cut rocks!



Figure I'll clean and fix this thing up and then take it to one of my storage units for now. No way that I'm moving Clyde out of the shed and taking Bonnie back there at this point. WAY too much work in this heat!

That's it for today. Almost 5 o'clock Friday afternoon and the juice light is on ~

Will be back with updates if anything exciting (like the saw is running) happens. - OR with questions!
Downloaded a copy of the owners manual, so maybe I can figure out what all this hydraulic crap does and how the heck it works.

Looking on Google (where I figure most of my projects out), it seems a 220 motor can be made into a 110 motor. Would rather have it run on 110 if possible. Will research that further. There is probably a downside to doing so.
Folks with knowledge of if this is doable or a bad idea please feel free to chime in on this!
Everything is a learning experience until ya do it.

Thanks for following along

eek! winch!

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