I purchased an electric winch, US Tower MDP-750 from a guy who was close enough to pick it up at his home. After getting it home and mulling over the challenge ahead, I decided it would be too hard t
I highly recommend strapping it to a pallet with metal banding. Contact freight companies with terminals in your area and obtain shipping costs to the buyer's destination. If you can get the winch to
Jim, standby for screwage! At that weight you will need a freight company and they have all kinds of single shipment, residential pick up and other minimum charges. You might consider removing the mo
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Find a UPS Store in your area and ask them about it. It is surprising the size of stuff they will pack and ship for you. Check for other companies that may pack and ship furniture or machinery also.
Anything that heavy shipped as a single unit is freight. The first rule of LTL shipping is that the truck driver drives the truck and stinks up the bathroom if you let him use it. Nothing else. You'r
Author: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:33:33 -0400
"Simpler" but some assembly required: http://www.w4abc.com/drive.html 73, Jon Pearl - W4ABC www.w4abc.com _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________
Not always. I have had freight delivery here where the shipper specified a lift-gate truck for the deliver, in those cases the driver will get the pallet off the truck and onto the ground... Not nece
I also recommend trying www.uship.com. I have used them before with good results. Shippers bid against each other to give you the lowest price, but you're not obligated to accept any of the offers. Y
After you get it strapped/packed for shipping and have correct dimensions and weight, post it on uship.com. Be patient and you may find and independent trucker or individual who will do it for a barg
Ditto. When I made a deal to buy my TX-472 from John WO6R, I originally tried to use the sole shipping broker that UST uses. They initially gave me a bid of $1200 to ship it approximately 1K miles f