[rescue] How would you ship this

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Cookie wrote:

> After seeing this on e-bay
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3031167872&category=11216
> my mind immediately drifted to how I would ship such a
> machine to NYC.

I just received an SGI Challenge GR in a "Terminator" chassis, which is
almost the same size as an E6000.  The E6000 might be a little wider,
but I'm sure that the Challenge is a little deeper.  It was shipped on a
pallet by truck to a freight depot, and I rented a box truck to get it
to my house.  If it weren't for the liftgate, I wouldn't have been able
to unload or load it.  Big computers are -heavy-.

>    Does anyone have an idea what shipping might cost, or
> even how you go about finding a company that will pick
> it up.

Yellow freight shipped my Challenge from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to
Austin, Texas in about three days at a cost of about $250.

> I figure there is no point researching if the seller/item is
> real, if I cant get it home.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke   )  "Leave your lawsuits at home.  I have guns."
Elgin, TX          (                      --"Kountry" Mike Lundgren