Best option for delivery if truck can't make it to your house

[beetlespin]

The big fancy FF delivery truck will never make it to my house.

How'd you get the chassis and boxes to your house?

Do all the boxes fit in the back of a 6.5' bed truck?

How many people needed to get the chassis off a trailer?

[Higgybulin]

I have never had one delivered but the drivers are top notch. Are you sure they cant back down the road? If not have you made a frame dolly yet? I believe they have a frame cart with them as well. Even if it takes you 2 loads in the pick up for the boxes, the drivers are very easy to deal with. Throw him a fifty and a bagged lunch for the road!

Higgy

[narly1]

I picked up my kit at the factory. I was able to get all of the boxes it came with into the 6.5' box of my pick-up.

I used a landscaper's style trailer with a metal mesh flip down rear ramp to haul the body & frame home. Everything sat on a couple of timbers to clear the wheel wells.

Once home it took 3 of us to easily unload it and get it set on some wheel dollys. Pulled the body off first and set it aside. Then several iterations of lift, move back, lift, move back until we were well clear of the trailer. If the ramp was wood we could've probably rolled it down that once clear of the timbers...

If there's no way the truck can get up your driveway I think it would be quite possible to set the frame/body on dollys at the roadside and then drag it up/in with a garden tractor and rope, along with a couple of helpers spotting/steadying/steering the load.

Earl

[Waterman]

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I used a little help. Made it easy. See pic. The body on frame is not very heavy. My 30HP tractor lifted it easy.

[KayzDad]

I had the kit delivered to a local towing company, where the Stewart driver loaded it onto my chassis dolly on a tilting flatbed tow vehicle. At my house the tow driver just rolled the body/chassis off the tow vehicle; no additional help needed. I rented a small U-Haul for the boxes (the tow company was also a U-Haul franchise.)

I spoke to the tow company beforehand and set things up. The Stewart driver called the night before as well as the morning of delivery to confirm delivery time, so I knew when to meet him at the tow company.

I used the same tow company when my crate engine was delivered.

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[JohnK]

Like Geoff, I also had the Stewart driver meet me on a larger local road. I hired a local tow truck driver with a flat bed truck to meet us there. Everything was loaded onto the flatbed from the Stewart truck.

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[Wizbangdoodle]

My driveway is 800' of narrow gravel. Truck driver didn't think he could make the turn from the road onto the driveway with out a rear wheel going in the ditch. I brought my truck and flatbed trailer down to the road and just off-loaded everything there. Used my tractor to pull the chassis off my trailer. The nice thing is, the driver helped with everything until the very end. Didn't just dump the stuff on my trailer and leave.

[bartock]

The big fancy FF delivery truck will never make it to my house.

How'd you get the chassis and boxes to your house?

Do all the boxes fit in the back of a 6.5' bed truck?

How many people needed to get the chassis off a trailer?

The driver couldnt get to my house. The turns in the neighborhood were too tight to get all the way but he got as close as he could. I used 5in casters for the chassis dolly but they have one. he lowered it from the truck to my dolly and we both pushed it around some corners, about 200yds to my house and into the garage. The boxes took 2 loads in my truck, but it has a small bed. They review the route before delivery and I was told to be prepared if I needed to rent a trailer to meet somewhere and get it home. The frame is light. 2 people can move it if need be.

[Jeff Kleiner]

Like Geoff, I also had the Stewart driver meet me on a larger local road. I hired a local tow truck driver with a flat bed truck to meet us there. Everything was loaded onto the flatbed from the Stewart truck.

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You had your delivery done by my friend Scott Bell, the World Famous Honey Badger! :cool:

Jeff

[Sarcasticshrub]

Boonies delivery. Same here.

No road remotely close to the house is wide enough for that truck. Had him meet me at the County Fairgrounds where the parking lot was big and inviting.

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