How do you ship things?

Re: How do you ship things?

Dick Coers

Never used them, but understand folks use Fastenal and Greyhound buses to ship freight. No idea how Covid has affected bus service.

Re: How do you ship things?

David Bassett

No personal experience.

Chris Schwarz & Megan Fitzpatrick have both written tidbits as part of other posts at Lost Art Press blog. Apparently it depends on size & weight. Small and light enough it's like we're used to. Bigger depends on how much bigger and other variables. As I recall they've used small lot freight shippers and piggy-backed on moving company vans for different things. You may want to search for their posts.

Re: How do you ship things?

Barry Irby

I can sympathize. At a recent freight auction I bought a huge stuffed dog and then shipped it to my grandson. From VA to SC. I spent $10 on the dog and $60 on shipping. The box was 30" X 22" X 22". Only weighed 9 pounds, so it was all about the cubic inches. FedEx. I expected the shipping to be closer to $30. It was worth it. What are Grand Dads for?

You can also try U-Ship. They bid in reverse, lower and lower, on the job. They prefer to ship to commercial addresses. These people are sort of the UBER or Lyft of the shipping world, but lately we have noticed the big freight companies have horned in on their gig. Check their ratings, you might want to pay more for someone with five stars than someone with two.

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Jerry Gibbs

Had a friend who made rocking horses. He used greyhound, which most people don’t consider.

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Jim Matthews

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William Duffield

…by boat. That's why they call it "ship."

Seriously, since the COVID19 pandemic, we like to stay away from as many people as possible. We live in a rural area where all the big malls and the FedEx office are at least 45 minutes away. So my wife got her own FedEx account. She does it all via her PC and printer, and leaves packages on the back steps, where the FedEx driver just makes them disappear. When we receive stuff we've bought online, it just as magically appears in the same place. Now, if we could just train the UPS drivers to leave packages on the back porch instead of the front porch, everything would be practically perfect, at least until Antarctica and Greenland complete their self-disassembly.

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TomD

Can't help you on the shipping. I made two versions of the Rocking Cradle designed by Simon Watts. It knocks down and uses little wood. It would be compact and lighter to ship than most any other cradle.

The only thing I would change is to close in the bag that forms the sides as there is a gap you can see in the picture, that might pose a danger. A lot of kids have gone through ours and no problems ever.

You might also be put off, when viewing the picture above, by how high the quilts appear to be. That is not what it looks like in use. Today you would not put a real baby in the photo, and a doll is cheesy. It must have looked weird with the bed made and nothing in it. But at the same time, if you imagine that teddy is your kid, you would think it would fall out immediately. It is in real life an entirely normal cradle with a low center of gravity.

It is just the two end pieces and 3 1x2s.

At the time that I made it, there were so many cradles that were so much more impressive that this one, but this one is still beautiful as most people do not commonly encounter well finished solid wood. People like the fun of wedging it together; appreciate that it does not hurt their back moving it around; and when they realized how little a cradle gets used, they appreciate the fact this one is easy to store.

Watts realized how little cradles are used, so he has another one that rather than breaking down, you can flip over and use as a bench seat. I started building that one, but by the time I had just the end boards glued up, I was shocked at how heavy it would be when fully tricked out. I switched to making the second knock down version.

I think the plans are on this site somewhere... In projects maybe? You can also look on his site:

http://simonwattsfurniture.com/rocking-cradle.html

Re: How do you ship things?

Mark Nowicki

I find a service that finds me the best rate.

https://gmxworldwide.co/

He shipped my bicycle to Poland for about $400 with DHL, FedEx internet quote was over a $1000.

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