I have one of the 20 ton presses. It comes fully disassembled - I brought mine home in my Accord wagon.
HF is extremely generous with the rating on their bottle jacks IMO. The 20 ton is probably about 12 ton actually, so the 12 ton is probably around 6 in the real world.
The cast iron (arbor) plates are dangerous (again, IMO) and I won't use them. I certainly wouldn't use wood! I picked up several pieces of 1" hot rolled to use instead.
HF is extremely generous with the rating on their bottle jacks IMO. The 20 ton is probably about 12 ton actually, so the 12 ton is probably around 6 in the real world.
The cast iron (arbor) plates are dangerous (again, IMO) and I won't use them. I certainly wouldn't use wood! I picked up several pieces of 1" hot rolled to use instead.
Willie