Last
update on: May 6th, 2006Here's
what's changed:
#1. Although I am not in the crating and shipping
business -- nor do I know any transport companies or
private truck driver/owners who could deliver your crate
of 8 or 9 blades, and it's just about all I can do just
to load up 8 or 9 blades on my trailer and drive them to
the loading yard to meet the Buyers and make the transfer
--- on some days I do feel that I could be persuaded to
build a crate for someone who really needs some blades
shipped for their private turbine project. However -- I
still can not be bothered with contacting the Transport
companies for your purchase. (sorry)
#2. My blades are as cheap as
they are because of their age, and because I have no
possible way of determining their true condition. I only
have the visual to go by - and the necessary restoration
is minimal -- (in my own personal paint and body work
ability's opinion).
So -- the cost of building a
crate and a steel hub support headboard, PLUS your
shipping costs -- would most likely run about 3 to 4
times more than the blades themselves. The reasons: I am
NOT a business and there is no one here to build the
crate besides myself -- and all the materials are a long
ways from my location. I would have to charge at least
double the cost of the crate -- PLUS a handling fee for
the blades -- since I'd have to load and off-load the
blades at least twice as much as normal (than in a
self-pick-up purchase). And again -- I am the only one
here to do ALL the work. And one thing you may not be
aware of about the Desert -- it's either too hot or too
cold or too windy to work outside. The number of
available work days is very limited -- and even more so
because I work nights and sleep days.
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So here's the deal on Shipping:
You make all your own shipping
arrangements and send me their On-line contact
information where I'll acquire all their crate shipping
requirements -- and then I'll work up the cost of crating
and handling and E-mail that information to you. And as
soon as I receive your U.S. Postal Money Order Deposit in
the mail, I'll begin the crating process. You will be
inquiring about a flatbed trailer and a crate that's
approximately 20 feet long by 8 feet wide by about 4 feet
high/tall. And the total weight is unknown at this time
because I've never built and shipped one, and I suppose
the weight will have to be estimated since I wouldn't
want to have to load the package on my trailer and haul
it to a truck stop scale -- and then return to my yard
and off-load the package, and then drive back to the
scale to weigh the empty trailer. I can get a blade's
weight and multiply that times 8 or 9 -- and it's
probably possible for your shipper to estimate the weight
of the crate based on their own crate construction and
material requirements.....but I am just guessing about
that last point.
That's it for now on the
self-shipping points. Amendments will be added with the
first (crate and ship) project. And I am sorry that I can
not get involved further or provide any information about
shipping costs. Once that information is provided to me
by a Blade buyer/Self-shipper -- I may post it here for
others to take advantage of.
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