Moving the Hog, or, Which base is better?

I have a Unisaw on this base. It is easy to move around.

http://lumberjocks.com/hairy/blog/11363

It looks to me like both of those bases only support the saw cabinet, and not the table.

On the plus side, installation should be a snap. I’m sure they are both capable of the job.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

I just got my new SS set up last weekend. You are probably aware, but they have a special offer going on right now where you can get a free mobile base through SS when you buy a new saw.

I got their “regular” base, not the industrial and I don’t know why you would need anything else. It is easy to install (before you stand the saw up) and operates with 2 pedals – one to put it up on wheels, the other to put it back down. They are 3” casters and they roll pretty smoothly. I have the expansion gaps in the concrete floor of my garage and it rolls over them fairly well. I suspect you might have to lift each end a little as you go over a threshold, but I don’t think it will give you too much trouble.

Something to think about for installing the mobile base: I bought my SS at Woodcraft. One of the guys there told me that it is way easier to install the mobile base when it is laying on its side. The saw is actually laying on it side when shipped. It was hard to do, but I left the whole thing packaged in the boxes until the mobile base arrived. (You have to submit a form to SS, and they send you the mobile base) It was really easy to set up that way. Since I didn’t have a burning need to cut something right away I was able to be patient and it was worth it. I know there was an section in the instructions for installing the base if you already stood the saw up, but I skipped that part so I don’t know how involved that would be.

Hairy, do you find that the wheel locks on the base for your Unisaw hold stong? The saw doesn’t move or want to shimmy at all if the swiveling wheels have a side load on them? (Not sure why I’d put a side load on the saw while feeding wood through it but just curious about the engineering.)

Lumber2Sawdust – Thanks for the feedback. Good advice to install while on it’s side. I got a chance to go to a SS distributor today and was able to look at both bases. I see how the integrated base is, well, integrated. The wheels look plenty large for small obstacles. (Hopefully my going over threshold days are over now . . . <fingers>) The industrial base is something else. It’s got a hydraulic jack like action where you pump the stand up with a few steps of your foot and a very smooth, slow release back down when you step on the release lever. Very nice but about $100 bucks more than the integrated base . . . and it’s not included in the promotion. <sigh>

Ahh, to have a shop where the saw has plenty of room to walk all the way around and never needs to be moved.

-- Somewhere in this piece of wood is a finished project covered in sawdust.

A saw on wheels will never be as stable as a saw on the ground. It has not caused any problems.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...