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Permalink Reply by Ron Simonsen on January 4, 2024 at 10:43am

I arranged to pick up my kit at the shipping depot. They loaded it on my utility trailer for me.

This may save you the cost of home delivery.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Simmons on January 4, 2024 at 12:01pm

If you have, or can borrow, a trailer, I suggest you do what Ron did. Estes has a terminal not far from you in Eighty Four, PA. I imagine that's where it will go. Parkersburg OH is another option, but further away. Once you get it on the ground you won't be moving it without a forklift or pallet jack, unless you have a lot of really strong friends on hand. I just unpacked mine right from on top of the trailer in front of my workshop. It only took a couple of hours, and most of that time was spent trying to figure out what to do with all the packing materials. You'd have to call Estes and see if this is possible though. I picked my kit up at the factory. You're free to borrow my trailer if you want to drive to Tennessee to get it. LOL!

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Permalink Reply by François Balaux on January 8, 2024 at 2:13pm

Mine came in a box truck with no tailgate. The box is too long to use one anyway.

I called a tow truck to take it from the delivery truck. The driver was able to get it in my garage. Timing was easy to manage, tow trucks are always called when they are needed, never in advance, so it was something like a 15 minutes delay.

If you chose to use a forklift make sure to have extra long forks as the box will be long. For my 701 it was 12 feet long.

The first thing to do when you receive the box is to empty it to make sure all the parts are there and in good condition so as long as the tow truck can put it close to your garage you should not have to move it.

Francois

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Permalink Reply by alan smith on January 21, 2024 at 9:53am

I built my table before the kit arrived. the top came off the table and unloaded the parts onto the bottom two shelves under  the removed top. It  took two days to check every part in and put the parts away. I cant stress this enough, leave the parts on top that your  gonna work on first. I spent half my time looking for parts, I'll be so happy when all parts are in and done, and I get some of my garage back.

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Permalink Reply by James K. Allen on January 29, 2024 at 3:01am

Matt, I had to deal with the same issue for my kit. Best solution was renting a big Penske truck (uhaul won't work as truck box is too low for truck terminal dock). I picked up the kit at the Estes truck terminal and they put the crate in the truck for me. Brought the kit home and off loaded by removing the crate contents into the garage a piece at a time. Took myself and 2 others about 2 hours to do the off load. Then I slid the empty crate out of the truck and into the garage. Worked out great. Beware of fork truck. When I checked on fork truck rental with long forks, rental place warned that the fork truck would most likely break up my concrete driveway because of it's weight.

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