Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-09 Thread harry watkins
@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment That seems like a good price Harry. I keep passing on small tractors that I'd like to have at the farm because I figure it'll be expensive to ship. We'd be looking at around 450 miles. If I could get it done

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-09 Thread Mitch Haley
Curt Raymond wrote: That seems like a good price Harry. I keep passing on small tractors that I'd like to have at the farm because I figure it'll be expensive to ship. We'd be looking at around 450 miles. If I could get it done for $600 I'd be pleased... You could also rent a 5k flatbed and

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-09 Thread Curt Raymond
... -Curt Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:15:28 -0400 From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net Subject: Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: 4a7ebde0.3010...@voyager.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Curt Raymond wrote

[MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread harry watkins
I bought a John Deere backhoe off craigslists from a location about 250 away. I went to uship.com, input what, where, when etc and waited for haulers to bid for the job. I accepted a $365 bid, fully insured, pickup and trailer, will deliver Wednesday. Real simple and I thought it was a fair

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread Mitch Haley
harry watkins wrote: I bought a John Deere backhoe off craigslists from a location about 250 away. So, did you check it out before you hired a shipper to fetch it for you? My dad once bought a tractor/loader from a dealer who had run it through the shop He told me he didn't need to check it

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread WILTON
So it drove THROUGH the shop just fine. Wilton - Original Message - From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment harry watkins wrote: I bought a John Deere

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread harry watkins
Mitch wrote So, did you check it out before you hired a shipper to fetch it for you? H, let me get back to you after Wednesday. Then I'll know it it will be a parts backhoe or not. I recently traded a golf cart for a parts Toro dump truck (gas) and it turns out to be better than my

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread Curt Raymond
watkins harry...@bellsouth.net Subject: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: 011c01ca187a$2d0cc9d0$4d514...@d4w8p421 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I bought a John Deere backhoe off craigslists from a location about 250 away. I went

Re: [MBZ] FYI, shipping equipment

2009-08-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
And if you have any questions about that sort of stuff ask here http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/index.php , I am a member and they are in the most part a nice bunch of folks as you might say. Hendrik with light equipment harry watkins wrote: Mitch wrote So, did you check it out