Shipping a Clausing 8520 Mill?

If Forward Air will do it and you don't mind dealing with a PITA company, they may be cheapest. You will have to bring it to their terminal, prepay the exact amount in cash and your customer will have to pick it up at their terminal in Florida, if they have one close enough. Otherwise Yellow Freight is very flexible and accomodating, or perhaps a shipping broker. Not sure where you can get specs for prepping it. Between the prep and the shipping, will it really be worthwhile?

How I packed a Clausing 8530 mill a week ago:

The buyer paid me $970 for packing it and delivering to a terminal (in addition to selling price). He paid freight also. So I tried to do a "real good job". He is a very nice gentleman. It took me and my FIL a whole day to do.

i

oh, and call Frank at freightquote,

Frank, Freightquote.com, 800-323-5441x1386

i

VERY NICELY DONE.

And this coming from someone who has shipped machines professionally. VERY nicely done.

Gunner

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stewart Mill

I appreciate the compliment, especially coming from you.

The packing photos that I make, are mostly made to cover my ass in case something happens. They also force me to do a better job since there is accountability. In case of this mill, I kept the buyer apprised of the packing process and he made a few suggestions. For example, he told me to put wood under the knee.

i

Very nice job but lots of "overkill", especially since most trucking companies you would usually use, such as Yellow, use enclosed vans meaning the outer crate was not needed. The company I worked for shipped machines of this and larger sizes on a regular basis but only used a full crate if the machine was going overseas; all others got an open/partial crate. Was the overarm removed because of loading height constraints? I've never seen any mills,during my 13 years as a machinery mover, with an overarm removed for any other reason. The block under the knee was a nice touch although probably not needed as it's rare to see this on a new mill (at least 20 years ago). Nice pictures. The main issue should always be safety and it looks as though you had this well rigged. I would also add something like Rust Veto to all bare metal surfaces before covering the entire machine with plastic. It also helps to have a flat, closed surface on your shipping pallet to staple the plastic to in order to keep out as much of that warm moist Florida air as possible.

dennis in nca

Well, it was up to the buyer and he decided that he wanted it. Remember, also, that a crate offers protection not only from elements, but also from bumping, things falling on the machine, etc.

Well, that was part of it, but more importantly, I wanted the mill to be less top heavy.

Well, that was not a new mill. Not sure how being new is relevant here.

Thank you.

I did that, and used CorrosionX HD.

I did not do it, but I agree that it is a good idea, without the crate.

i

I have a friend with several large CNC do-all machines - he had shipped in from ?Penn? - one came in rusty because it wasn't in a box, only an open crate with tar paper on the outside! - naturally it was cut just enough to let in rain and then steam up under the Sun to rust.

One machine was accepted, the other turned around. He got the second in a double box. I guess someone got in trouble.

Martin

I would rather prefer not to risk anything...

i

In order to risk "nothing" you'd have to take out an insurance policy to cover all phases of the move. Generally this would be considered impractical unless you're a moving professional or the replacement cost of the item demands it. Makes me think of the time I worked in a bosun's chair dismanteling a large piece of equipment. I would double check all the rigging every morning before I "went up" and again after lunch before we started again. Even though I was confident in all details of the rigging, in the back of my mind was a small picture of what the result of stopping suddenly after a 6 story fall might be. Even though I knew I had made myself as safe as possible I felt, deep down inside, there was still a risk I would have to put up with.

dennis in nca