OT: Shippin a Shaper?

I shipped a 440 lb diesel engine on a pallet from Amarillo Tx to columbiana Ohio( close to PA) for 214.00 This was a freight dock to freight dock. I am sure it would have been xtra for pickup and delievery. This was through R + L shipping and they were OK to deal with. Maybe this will give you an idea of costs.

Bill

--Yesterday there were no less than *3* shapers in the consignment sale area at the show in Visalia... ;-)

This is a problem that many HSMs face, and one that I've tried to address in the past with a web-based database of machine tool shipping weights. That web page is still up at:

On that page is a listing for a Logan 7" Shaper @ 585 lbs. I don't know what brand of shaper you have so the weight of your machine may be quite different from a Logan.

One resource you'll want to check is Google's directory for trucking and freight companies:

From here you should be able to locate a number of trucking companies with which to compare prices and options.

My only experience with shipping machinery has been to have a Hardinge horizontal miller shipped to me from NJ to Connecticut. The person who sold me the machine set the shipping up on his end. It was delivered to the door of my residence (residential delivery cost a bit more than delivery to a business).

The machine, on a pallet, weighed roughly 1000 lbs. and if I remember correctly it cost $300 to ship to me.

According to MapQuest.com it is 1180 miles from Olympia to Escondido. Quite a bit further than the 100 mile trip from NJ to CT.

I don't know what part these factors play in calculating the cost of shipping, so I don't know how useful the info is.

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or wait until Christmas time when my brother will be running a small truck from Seattle south through Olympia to Long Beach.

If you want to contact me see

- I'm an hour from Olympia and would be willing to pitch in to a certain degree.

Grant Erw> >

Recently I purchased a small Atlas mill in Florida and had it shipped to Portland, Oregon. I used Yellow Freight as they are a nationwide company and they gave me a 45% discount (I think) because the seller in Florida agreed to strap it to a pallet and deliver it in his pickup to the Yellow freight depot in Tampa and I agreed to pick it up at the local freight depot here in Portland.

You can save ton's if they don't have to mess with lift-gates and make arrangements to be sure you're going to be home during the day, blah, blah, blah.

I travel from Portland to Seattle every week and might be willing to pick your shaper up in Oly, bring it to Portland and strap it to a pallet. I can deliver it to a local freight depot if it's not too far away. I travel in a pickup and have all the strapping tools necessary.

I'd just have to figure out how to get it on the pallet. Does the seller in Oly have the ability to set the shaper onto a pallet sitting in the back of a pickup truck? All I'd have to do is strap it and wrap it in some plastic.

Oh, the trick to getting the freight discount with Yellow Freight rests with some verbage that the shipper HAS to write on the freight bill on the shipping end of thingsd. That's important. They'll give you a quote number that has to be transfered to the bill of lading as well.

I'm not looking to be paid for this. It might work as long as I don't have to spend a lot of time in Olympia running around trying to find the place. If the shipper can have the machine strapped to a pallet and can deliver it to a Yellow Freight depot in Oly (or any other agred upon freight company) you should get the best freight deal possible. I shipped a 500 pound milling machine from the bay area to Portland for about $285. using that "depot to depot" trick. Works well but you have to ask for it, they won't volunteer the information.

Good luck.

Michael Roeper Portland, Oregon snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net

About a year ago I helped a friend sell and ship a South Bend 7" shaper. We took it to the ABF terminal in Springfield, ILL and it went to a business in the Sacremento, CA area. The gal on the phone that quoted me the shipping price asked if this was an internet sale and I told her it was. The price for the shipping was 137.00. That was even better than forwardair and I would have had to of went farther to deliever to a freight dock.

For a close estimate forwardair has always been just over 30.00 per 100lbs. to ship and that is just about from anywhere to anywhere in the continental US. Of course that is you deliver and pick up from their terminal. A word of warning, forwardair is finicky on payment. They will only accept money orders from "off-the-street" type customers. So if you are going to ship via forwardair you should get a hard quote on shipping so that you can have a money order made out in the amount of shipping before going to the terminal. The guy at the forwardair terminal at St. Louis told me that they liked the smaller type stuff. It allows them to pack a trailer to the roof.

tim

Thanks all for the offers and info. I am going to have to put this on the back burner for a couple of days. I am in the middle of two fires at the moment and things are pretty dicey. For the now everything looks OK but it will be a few more days until the fires die out.

Jake > About a year ago I helped a friend sell and ship a South Bend 7" shaper. We