[TowerTalk] shipping large, heavy object

[Jim Spears]

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 to integrate this winch
(which has a complicated pull up/pull down design) onto my crankup tower and
sold it.  The winch is pretty large and heavy, 185 pounds according to the
US Tower catalog (and I believe it).  

 

I am starting to work with the new buyer on shipping.  And I need a starting
point.  I would guess it needs to be strapped to a pallet.  Any suggestion
on a shipper?  Will FedEx ground handle something like this?

 

I am getting real tired of manually cranking the tower up and down but need
a simpler approach.  Something like the MDP-75 is more in my thought
process.  

 

Jim/N1NK