To hual or not to hual

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Well it looks like me and the family are headed to Spokane area near the end of summer. Trying to decide on how to move my shop if at all. Most everything I have could be replaced but what a pita. Then again if I try and move everything that would be an even bigger pita. :( Right now it looks like we will be driving our car down and getting rid of everything we can. I can ship my shop down in a crate for $900 but then I would have to meet it in Seattle with something big enough to unload the crate. I'm thinking I may just have to sell off everything but my coote and just send the grinder part down and get a new motor for it. Man thats alot of things I will have to rebuy when I get there though.

Who's moved there shop from state to state and how did you manage it?
Wish me luck.
 
Dustin,
It depends on the cost of replacing everything. If replacing everything is more than $900 + the cost of a uhaul truck and a car hauler, you could have it shipped to Seattle and meet it there. Then rent a uhaul and a car hauler in Seattle. Put your car on the car hauler and then tow it with the uhaul to Spokane.
 
Yeah, I could also just have the wife drive the car from there and skip the car hualer. My equipment is nothing special but it would be alot of stuff to purchase. I'm sure between selling it and rebuying I would lose some cash. I guess it's math problem time.

Cant wait to have that beer and pound some steel Scott. On a side note whats the best wader boots for WA? Felt or sticky rubber?
 
I prefer the felt. I have both, but the felt works better on the very slippery smooth stones of the rivers in WA.

The forge and brewery will be open when you can make it down to visit. It's about a 5+ hour drive from Spokane to my house. We have a guest room for you and the family to stay in.
 
If you have very many tools at all, I think you'd be better off going with the shipping container. Equipment costs are rising every day, and any specialty tools you have to buy online as replacements will also have shipping costs. Add to that the loss you take selling the used equipment, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were out half the value of your equipment. Some tools, like anvils can be very hard to find without laying down big money on a new one also.

How are you moving the rest of your stuff down? Seems like however its getting moved, you'd be able to squeeze in the more important things from your shop too :confused:
 
That's quite a quandry! There are two things I never sell: Science fiction books, and tools. Or I should say, I never sell a book unless I've replaced it with a nicer edition and I never sell a tool unless I've replaced it with a better one. Suffice to say, I use tools every day that I've had for 40 years. And that's been a lot of moving, sometimes over vast distances... ;)

One alternative might be to mail the smaller things that would be harder to replace or those things that would cost a lot more to replace. Or that you'll want to use right away when you get set up again.

Once I mailed all my books to St Croix, and back a couple years later - and I still have them! :D Yeah, tools too.
 
What about those PODS? (I think that's what they're called.) Those shipping containers that you load, then the company picks them up and delivers them to your new address and you unload it.
 
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