How do I take this off?

[Neale]

I recently moved an even heavier lathe into my garage. Fortunately, I had it fork-lifted on to a hired flat-bed truck (on a pallet), and a mate with a tractor and front-loader was able to lift it off with a couple of slings under it, up the drive, and into the front of the garage. That weighed a bit over a ton, but that weight actually moves fairly easily on a pallet-lifter across a flat concrete floor. TBH, taking off the tailstock is easy, but won't make much difference, and the work involved in removing and then reassembling - accurately - the saddle/cross-slide assembly is probably not going to make much practical difference either. Something that can lift the bed and headstock "lump" will be able to lift the other bits if they're left on, I suspect. All I would say is that it is probably advisable to move the saddle to the tailstock end of the bed, as this helps overall balance.

Good luck - nice-looking machine!