I had to use the 2 ton HF hoist to get my PM 835 off the pallet. The reason being that the boom had to be extend to the mid position on the 2 tom press in order to be able to reach the lifting hook on the machine. Even at that, I had the cut down the pallet so that only the bloks that were actually holding th emchine up were still there. at that poation, the 1 ton hoist would be at the 500 pound mark and not up top the task of lifing 1,400 pounds.
Even with this, it was still a real pain, I have posted on another thread how I did it. My advice, BE CAREFUL!!!.. When you hoist it up, it is not balanced and it will tilt and rotate according to how you have the table and head postioned. I hd the head rotated down to its max and the table lowered and backed to the stops