Shipping Tractors

[GlenPettit 1,717]

Fastenal stores can ship a Garden Tractor for you, from one store to another Fastenal store.

If you ever need to ship one, well worth checking into, they make the process quite easy,

very helpful, taking care of all the logistics & paperwork for you, and I think the rates are very

fair (you must secure the tractor to the pallet):

 

http://www.fastenal.com/web/en/22/third-party-logistics-(3pl

[AMC RULES 37,196]

Awesome, Glen.  

     

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,122]

Good to know, theres a Fastenal near where I work.

Mike...........

[stevasaurus 23,274]

How many horses you want Sparky???

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,122]

How many horses you want Sparky???

Ship em all! Dont know how I'll pay ya but lets not sweat the small details!

Mike..........

[stevasaurus 23,274]

I like your attitude Mike...    If you find something this way...I can bring it to the next show for you and save you some money.

[squonk 43,716]

How many miles per gallon of Rock n Rye do you get anyway?

[stevasaurus 23,274]

I have not charged anybody anything...yet.

[AMC RULES 37,196]

I can attest to that.    

[perry 82]

A tractor buddy of mine sent me this shipping info .

 UShip: Door to door...using private carriers. Can be super cheap, or kinda pricey. Takes patience to list an ad (kinda like reverse ebay), and wait for lower and lower bids. Then you have to work with the carrier and person shipping or taking delivery, to get things scheduled. It's a PITA, really, when compared to other methods, but if you get a cheap bid, it can save money. The good thing is, the carrier goes door to door, and nobody has to take an item to a terminal or ship point, and doesn't have to pick up there either. Doesn't have to be on a pallet, and you can build a big 'ol load, and even ask for them to make additional stops to grab more crap. I throw a lot of stuff on Uship, just to see if I can get a great deal...I throw things on there for tractors and attachments I'm interested in that are on CL, pretty much anywhere in the country. Several times, I've gotten cheap quotes and then lined up a deal with the seller. Had stuff come from the Atlantic coast, Washington state, Kansas, Virginia...even Indiana and Ohio. If the buy is a great deal, and the freight quote is cheaper than my gas to drive it, I book the shipment. Once you have a carrier's email and ph#, you can work directly with them, too, without paying Uship fees.

Unishippers: Great rates for longer shipments or heavy/bulky items. They ship between truck terminals or docks. The service finds you a commercial carrier who will take the load for cheap, then you have to drop it off at their terminal, and the guy on the other end has to pick it up at his local terminal. Nice thing is, they have hilo's, etc to help out, but the bad thing is, you have to have stuff on pallets, and you have to go to the terminals. In Grand rapids it is very easy, but if someone is out in the sticks, it could be a pain. I recently sent 2 pallets stacked with attachments, from Grand rapids, MI to Minnesota, and the guy paid $190 in freight and it was delivered to the dock where he worked. It was probably 1000lbs worth of stuff.

Fastenal: My new favorite. Ships store-to-store, and costs are cheap. I have a pallet with mower deck and weedcutter coming from Massachusetts to Michigan this week for $120. Again, you have to take your stuff to a Fastenal store, and it has to be picked up at a Fastenal store, BUT...they usually have a dock and/or HiLo to help, and there are Fastenal's literally everywhere. there are 3 I can get to in under 20 minutes. They prefer stuff on pallets (I kinda like it that way, anyway), but will ship small items you can carry, or rolling items (like a tractor) without a pallet.

UPS: Anything I can carry, I ship UPS. Grader blades and moldboards ship just about anywhere for around $40. 42" Dozers blades...$40-50. It's a PITA to break them down, build a box around something, and pack it, but it ships very fast and relatively cheap with tracking #'s. If I have 2 or more items going to the same place, I grab a crap pallet from work and ship it through Fastenal instead. But for a single item, UPS is easy and they pick up at your front porch.

[dclarke 4,082]

I can attest to that.    

Me too!

[AMC RULES 37,196]

If you ever get the opportunity...

the Dino express it the bomb...

drop off is the trailer or tent...

the rates can't be beat.   

[boovuc 1,090]

I always liked K&L Carriers. But.................like most any chain enterprises, there are good depots and bad ones. I've used K&L three times from the mid-west to Central PA without incident or delay. Lift gates on their trailers make taking deliveries at home a breeze. I never thought about Fastenel before and will look into it in the future. We have a store about 6 miles away considering how rural we are.

Good information, Glen! Thank You!

[rmaynard 16,289]

Just tried to ship something to Colorado today, and found that Fastenal has a ban on shipping there. Nobody at the local store knows why, and the 3PL shipping department has not graced me with an explanation yet.

Edited April 19, 2014 by rmaynard

[squonk 43,716]

I may have a tiller to ship. I can get a bazillion pallets at work but we don't have any strapping eq. Not sure how I can get it fastened to the pallet. Ideas?

[AMC RULES 37,196]

Ratchet straps are a fairly cheap option. 

[cleat 7,239]

Yep, just get the cheapest straps you can or even tie it down with rope.

 

Cleat