What is the largest, heaviest, or just plain most ridiculous/absurd thing you've ever had shipped to your place that was DIY related? With some of these free shipping deals you can find online there's not really a reason not to order ridiculous crap and have it sent to your doorstep. I've ordered a 6x26 mill from Harbor Freight, a couple engine short blocks off e-bay. Eight 18.4-38 tractor tires at one time and several other sets of rear tractor tires 4 at a time. My old man bought a 2 post lift, tire machine, and log splitter from Northern tool as well as a couple of bandsaws from Grizzly and a box and pan brake from Enco. Most of the big stuff comes on a freight truck, but the smaller stuff is a lot of times just your standard UPS or Fedex driver. Have ordered quite a few sets of 4 pickup tires. Sometimes 3 or 4 sets at a time. Those always came Fedex. Had the UPS man deliver five 1/2" thick SSQA plates. Bet he loved me for that. Ammo is always heavy as hell, as well as steel and lead bought off the internet. Might have just outdone myself this time though. Just ordered twenty-two 235/85/16 load range F trailer tires from Wal-mart.com... Might have to give that poor bastard a Christmas tip.
A lot of times when we purchase something particularly large we have to arrange shipping ourselves and freight quotes are absurd. Old man drove 600 miles to pick up a dozen 24ft portable working-lot panels for cattle before. Probably the largest thing we've had shipped was a $1200 Amazon tire machine. For whatever god forsaken reason none of the tire shops around us will do implement tires, and we were tired of wrestling them with tire spoons. Split the cost with with the old man, and to my mild surprise it works really well.
>>2963957>For whatever god forsaken reason none of the tire shops around us will do implement tiresThat is absolutely retarded. The tire shops around here probably pay most of their bills on implement tires alone. I still do 99% of my own tires. Once in awhile I'll call in a mobile guy to tackle some retarded shit. Rim clamp machines work amazingly well. Here's an ancient pic of mine. I've gotten pretty damn good with the spoons and a slide hammer bead breaker though too.
>>2963929this one looked pretty silly to me when it showed up. came from pennsylvania all the way to the left coast on ltl freight about a week before yellow inc foldedfree shipping on ebay from a truck wrecker yard
>>2964025Nice, what'd you have to give for that bad boy? I should probably put something like that on my service truck. What kind of hydraulic flow does it take to run it?
>>2964122i think like $1700 circa 2021i wasnt very impressed with it. it was an overdriven 4 cyl recip and 6 months after i sold the truck the guy that bought it came and asked about it because it had locked upnot sure on the pump size. it was a good sized load sense that would run that compressor at rated 1350 rpm = 11gpm @ 1100 engine rpmhttps://fleettruck.net/products/american-eagle-30p-30-cfm-hydraulic-drive-single-stage-air-compressor
