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
>>2964131>i 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 upWell that's disappointing...
Tires showed up today...
>>2963929A gun safe from Walmart.It was a limpy negro and his fat white companion who tried unloading it.One of those where they deliver it from a nearby store.Other than that, a tractor from a used equipment lot. Around 5 tons with the loader. Owner brought it over with his dually and unloaded it in 5min. Solid guy.
>>2965314rumor has it old ties towed with a chain make the best drip torch for burning ditch banks and grass fields. the chain loop keep the wire cords from being left behind
>>2963929Extension for my garage, I had to put it together.
>>2965463>rumor has it old ties towed with a chain make the best drip torch for burning ditch banks and grass fields. the chain loop keep the wire cords from being left behindNice, might have to give that a try. Scored this liquid propane weed burner with a hydaulic boom for $300 or 350 at an auction many years ago. Had to do a bit of work to it, but it straight up kicks ass.
>>2963929> 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.Relevant to my interests, I’ve been trying to think of how to safely descend a 10x22 into my garage that is down like a 50 degree decline
>>2968987I’m thinking a combo of a wince and engine crane for getting it around. My garage is pretty tiny though, this may be more trouble than it’s worth, I just wanted a proper mill to learn on.
>>2968988*winch
>>2968987I've seen plenty of photographical evidence of people sliding machines up or down ramps with winches to get them into or out of basement shops. Luckily I don't have to mess with accessibility issues like that myself, but it can be done. In my personal experience your typical engine hoist can pick up a smaller 9x49 table style bridgeport style machine a bit off the floor to allow you to wheel them around. It can be done, just think it through step by step and use what equipment you have on hand to safely get it done.
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>>2963929a mini lathea heat exchanger for my brothers AC unit.A shed
>>2969142Why do I have the feeling she's never used those tools or tools even remotely like that in her life?
>>2963929Several thousand LEDs A bunch of 1/4" steel spring/coils Several thousand capacitors Various bearings Threaded rods Nothing too crazy I just like having the option to go balls to the wall on small projects and machines
not quite shipped to my house but i picked it up from a local shipping center that it was sent to and spent all day getting it into the doorwaythe most ridiculous thing i had sent to my house was a hundred pound anvil, which the delivery guy carried to the doorstep on his own, which he was clearly annoyed by
>>2963929his/her fuck machine kit
