Tried to message Darcy about this, since he has a fair amount of experience buying and moving stuff, but it appears he cant receive PMs. Also wanted to let him know about a Bentel and Margedant jointer on Facebook. Anyway, i just purchased a machine about 6+ hours away from me, and the seller doesnt have a forklift/means of moving it onto a trailer. Ive shipped 6 900-1600lb machines across the country in the past, but in each instance the seller was able to bolt it to a pallet, or they had a forklift to lift and load the machine. That left me to wrestle the machine off a trailer on my end with a pallet jack. It wasnt always easy, but it worked. Now, i am facing a situation where the seller doesnt have any means to put the machine on a pallet jack, and he doesnt have a means of loading the machine. This makes it difficult for me to work with a national carrier to pick up and deliver a machine. They are picky about how freight is packaged--understandably. This leaves me to think Uship is my only route, but ive never dealt with a ushipper in the past that was capable of loading and unloading a machine on their own. It always involved the seller on a forklift loading the ushipper and the ushipper watching me unload it on my end. Is there a service i dont know of that can independently handle a 1300+lb machine pickup, or go crate a machine for a national freight carrier to later pick up?