This comes up all the time and it seems like every one is always agonizing about how to handle the cabs. They are a unit body that when mounted on the frame simply floats on a couple of rubber pads and two shackles. So it is self supporting as long as nothing is rotted away or has been cut out.
Lifting thru the center with a cherry picker which 99% of us have or have access to had been documented hundreds of times and is the simplest and safest way to handle the movement of the cab.
Once on the ground for blasting/grinding/chemical striping, it can set on the bottom of the floor boards and can be rolled over on the cowl by one person to blast the bottom. The weight of the cab is less than it’s engine and about what your average light street bike might tip the scales at.
Although I have some doubts and wouldn’t recommend it myself, I’ve even heard of people rolling the cabs over onto the back side with an old mattress for a cushion to work on the floor boards.
There was a YouTube video on line a while back of a guy that had a whole entire muscle car body on a simple rollover frame. He rolled it out of the garage into the driveway and rolled it up on its side, then dropped it down and rolled it back into the garage. Did this all by himself in about five minutes and he wasn’t a big old moose either.
DG

Denny G
Sandwich, IL