Cheap lifts?

Well I've seen newer rotary ones where 2 guys walk the columns upright like nothing.

When I dismantled my weaver from where I bought it we had 4 good sized guys trying to lay down the columns without crashing and damaging my trailer, and we tied a semi trailer ratchet tie down strap as high as we could get and my cousin (about 6'2, 250ish) was in front, I was the "anchor) (think tug of war competition) I'm 5'11/ was around 230ish back then) and 2 guys in between. 3 of us were holding on for dear life, my cousin gave the column a good shove and then quickly grabbed the strap to guide it down slow and with all 4 of us hanging on to slow it's fall we were all sliding on the concrete. This was after we took the arms and power unit off the columns.
We had to get a pretty big utility tractor with a bucket (we took the bucket off and used a choke strap on the columns to the tractor bucket arms to get them off the trailer and stand them upright.
While the columns were laying on the trailer I made a template of the floor plate and cut 2 templates out of old paneling to use to figure out exactly where to position the columns.