Experience shipping heavy supplies

[TacticalBlade]

After spending a while making sure I'm not breaking any rules asking this, this seems the best place to ask. I'm waiting for my Gold membership to take effect since I have a few things to sell. On top of some knives I'd like to move to be able to finally purchase my "Grail" knife, I have a large slab of aluminum. It is 1 inch thick, I believe it to be ground flat, or at least faced, 6061, and since it is at home and not with me here to measure, it is either 22 or 24 inches wide by 36 inches long. Yes, 1 X 22 or 24 X 36 inches. I can pick it up by myself and just manhandle it around, but it weighs somewhere around 100 pounds. These are expensive to buy new and I'm going to make a pretty good deal on it, but before I post it for sale, does anyone have experience shipping something over 70 pounds which seems to be about the maximum standard weight shipped? I dont know if a rough cost can be posted but if you have advice on a route to take to be able to ship it since I dont want to limit myself to just my local area for pickup I'd very much so like to hear them. I used to be a driver helper a few years back for UPS around the holidays and remember delivering mini bikes etc weighing over the 70 pound limit so I know you can do it, I just dont know how.

PS. when my membership gets put in (hopefully soon as its been 2 days since paypal went through) I will be selling this in full. If i had the means to cut it, I would. And I would be machining kick @ss wheels on my lathe or an all aluminum frisbee etc.

If you have advice that may violate being posted i.e a price or something, feel free to email me, it should be able to be done when clicking my username.

 

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Why not start by advertising on Craigs List, or whatever, try to sell it locally.

If the price doubles with shipping, it's not that good of a deal anymore.

 

[TacticalBlade]

I've been on Craigslist and I just get completely Lowballed. I'm not selling $750+ worth of aluminum for 100 bucks. I'm going to significantly discount it, but I'm not giving it away. My buddy and I got these really cheap a few years back when a plant closed. Some we were able to turn around and sell because they were ALCOA plates and printed on there etc. the un-stamped plates though arent wanted by most machine shops. they are written on though as they have been cut from even larger plates, probably ALCOA's but I cant confirm. I may repost on craigslist though.