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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.

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>>2963957
>For whatever god forsaken reason none of the tire shops around us will do implement tires

That 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.

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>>2963929
this 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 folded
free shipping on ebay from a truck wrecker yard

>>2964025
Nice, 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?

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>>2964122
i think like $1700 circa 2021
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 up
not sure on the pump size. it was a good sized load sense that would run that compressor at rated 1350 rpm = 11gpm @ 1100 engine rpm
https://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 up
Well that's disappointing...

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Tires showed up today...

>>2963929
A 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.

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>>2965314
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 behind

>>2963929
Extension for my garage, I had to put it together.

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>>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 behind
Nice, 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

>>2968987
I’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

>>2968987
I'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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my mail-order bride ha ha

>>2963929
a mini lathe
a heat exchanger for my brothers AC unit.
A shed

>>2969142
Why do I have the feeling she's never used those tools or tools even remotely like that in her life?

>>2963929
Several 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

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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 doorway
the 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

>>2963929
his/her fuck machine kit

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>>2963929
i sold thealoris ca quick change tooling that came on my lathe to some dude on a messageboard for $750. just fit in a flat rate box and weighed 68lbs of the 70 max which pissed off the counter guy at the post office. wish i saved the pic the guy sent when he got it. looked like ace ventura delivered it. filthy and crumpled all over but completely intact because everything was wired down to a sheet of plywood in the bottom and taped baler twine around all the outside faces so it couldnt pop open
it pisses me off when people do a nigger lazy halfass job packing shit

>>2969142
From where

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>>2972310
Nice. I built a nice crate to ship some Dually Dana 60 front hubs to a guy once. Then he threw some Dana 60 front hubs from a SRW pickup back into the crate and shipped them right back to me.

Also built this model log cabin and shipped it to a guy using Greyhound's package service way back in the day. Lol. I dunno how but it got there in one piece. I'm sure those bus drivers fucking hated me...

>>2972496
Home Depot

>>2963929
I’m in an apartment so I can’t really do anything too crazy.
A hydraulic press was the worst I guess.

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I handed a guy 100 bucks to pay a third party to buy an engine and 2 days later a 351w c6 was set in my driveway on a pallet.
never even met the third party he was gone before I noticed.

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>>2974544

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>>2974545
Nice.

>>2974545
Was it at all usable or a POS?

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>>2974724
no but i used the block

>>2974731
I got a free 351HO, C6 transmission, driveshaft, steering box, front suspension, etc out of a mid 80's ford van for "free" from a guy. I just had to pull all the stuff I wanted and then weld a hitch to the front of it to turn it into an enclosed trailer for the guy... I was young and retarded so it sounded like a good deal at the time. Actually still have that engine rebuilt on a stand in my garage.

>>2974767
my first grade teachers son got into a wreck on the edgde of town, t-boned by a late model suburban and it broke his jaw 3/4 the way across his mouth.
anyways I got his truck sitting in my yard and the 302 became the donor for the car this 351w was meant to be in.
ended up having stars in my eyes and money in my account so I finally had this one built into a 408w and just bought a whole 'nother car to put it in.

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>>2974836
I remember it was 250k on it, changed nothing on it other than bearings, cam bearings rings and a dingleball hone.
didn't even change the cam it was a fuel injected truck cam in it and put a 650 holley on it.
the same guy also procured a t5 but it had bearing cages exploded in it, I got some wack story that he had a nitrous run-away in his garage and had no oil in in the transmission.
I rebuilt that, it recently started knocking teeth off the cluster gear recently and has been rebuilt again.