Hi Thomas,
Here is a step by step method.
1. When you arrive, first take off the plastic cover in the back under the top part of the mount. There are 7 bolts that hold it in place. Take it loose, and it has a slit that allows it to fit over the center piece of the mount. Take it all the way off and put it away.
2. Cut the wires at the ground and hook up a battery charger to the motor wires and move the dish all the way to one side until the gear is almost touching the back of the dish. There aren't any limit controls, so watch it carefully.
3. Remove the feed-horn cover. In this case there isn't one. There are 6 bolts that hold the scaler assembly to the dish support arms. Carefully take those off. The support arms are aluminum. If one or two breaks off, there are ways to fix that so don't get excited.
4. After removing the scaler and feed-horn, the support arms unscrew from the front of the dish. Carefully remove those and put them away.
5. For using the dish crane, then use the batter charger to move the dish back to the topmost position. You will have to have a flat piece of steel say 1/8" with holes drilled in it to match the holes in the back of the dish. I'll get you the measurements. You will need a hook welded to the steel in the middle. Loosen all the bolts in the back of the dish. There are 6 at the top and 6 at the bottom. Take your time, because it is possible to break those off too. Still ways to fix it if you do.
Take all of the bolts out except the two outside bolts in the bottom half of the mount. Push the top of the dish forward away from the mount, and insert the flat steel and tighten down two bolts placed through the holes in the steel pre-drilled to fit. Attach the dish crane to the hook in the flat steel. Put enough pressure so that you can remove the remaining two bolts.
If you don't get the crane, two men can easily lift the dish off at that point while a third person takes the last two bolts out. You can then carry or roll it across the grass to the truck.
6. You will need a 1-1/8" wrench for taking the top bolt out of the cap. I bought mine at Lowes in the trailer hitch section for less than $15.00. It was made for nuts on a trailer hitch.
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Just get it loose a couple of 1/4 turns and squirt some PB Blaster under the head of the bolt and let it run down to the threads. You may have to turn it in and out and repeat until it is loose enough to come out. Take the three bolts that hold the cap on the side out. Spin the mount on the pole a few times, and then two men can lift it off putting your hands on the top, and the bottom and lift straight up.
7. I use a sawz-all to cut the pole at the bottom next to the ground. Once you have made an opening, using a good quality short blade, swing the saw so that the blade is always pointed at the center as you cut your way around it. It is only 1/16" thick and will cut very easily. You can't get right next to the ground, so make about 8 vertical cuts in the remaining inch or so sticking up and take a hammer and fold the tabs you just created down into the hole. See my "solid Birdview in my future" thread for pictures.
8. I built a crate for hauling mine out of 2x4s. I wanted to secure it without warping the dish. See the thread referred to above for pictures of the crate.
9. Load up and come home.
Good Luck!