[TowerTalk] shipping large, heavy object

[Jim Walker]

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 the chosen shipper via
pickup truck, etc. it will save local transport charges.

If you can get it to the shippers terminal, if you have loaded the pallet
correctly they will be able to get a forklift under it to off load it.
Then, it’s the buyer's responsibility to figure out how to get it home on
his end.

Jim
KBØX

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Spears
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:48 AM
To: yccc at yccc.org; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] shipping large, heavy object

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

_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk