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[Landy62]

Can anyone please advise any good courier companies that will pick up a tub and deliver it?

[Moogling]

Your best bet is Shiply for something that size!

[diffwhine]

I daresay any courier would charge like a wounded bull if they have any risk of damage to deal with.
What about doing it yourself? I take it needs to get to or from Basingstoke, but where to?

Everyone I've moved, I've dropped onto a small box trailer and moved it myself

[GHOBHW]

I've had people collect station wagon roofs from me before using shipley, usually 2 men and a van. one said it cost him £60 to have it sent to him. not bad for going from yorkshire to the south coast.

tubs are a bit more difficult I am guessing. all depends on what van is passing and what space they have spare.

[Landy62]

This post I put up in April and now sorted sorry should of put on there a few months back.
I did use Shiply in the end

[geoff]

    I did use Shiply in the end

  I have a tub for sale also .... can I ask was shipping an easy affair ?  pallet needed ?  Can you give an idea of cost ??

   Cheers   

[Landy62]

Yes it was easy, I put in the place of pick up/ destination and size and people quoted me it was picked up in Lancashire and delivered to Hampshire for £150. It was good service no pallet needed and they put padding round it/ strapped it down in van

[geoff]

Great thanks for the reply 

[w3526602]

Hi

I have transported tubs, inverted, so that the tub gunnels hang down the sides of the trailer ... best if the trailer is narrow enough for the inverted tub floor to sit on the trailer gunnels, so it can't shift sideways. LWB roof panels are more "interesting".

If you are moving a lot of tubs and roofs, it might be worth extending the draw-bar with a length of 50x50x3mm (2" x 2" x 1/8") RHS (Rolled hollow section aka "Square pipe"  ). Google STEEL STOCKHOLDERS NEAR ME, or check EBAY for STEEL OFFCUTS.

Back in the day, I moved a lot of pianos in a vintage horse transporter trailer ... easier for two men to load than a Transit van, and probably cheaper to buy. No VED, and my 1957 S1 was insured for haulage. I also kept an ANIMAL MOVEMENTS book (from HMSO). Horses, donkeys, goats, and pigs.

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[Smokey 11a]

Transported a 109 tub. Took the canvas roof of and sticks. I had 2 bits of wood just long enough to go across the tub, we then lifted the "new" tub and placed it upside down on the existing one ans strapped it down with the ends of the wood sticking out a couple of inches each side.
Worked well in the sunshine, might have been a different story if it was raining.

[w3526602]

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OT ... but a LWB tub will sit, inverted, and backwards, over a 4ft by 3ft wide trailer, with all the weight taken on the trailer gunn'ls, and tub floor.

I'm not sure about a SWB tub ... it will depend on the width of the tail-gate gap.

I increased the length (overlap and nuts and bolts) of the tow-bar, when delivering a LWB roof panel, on the same trailer. It would probably have taken a full LWB hard-top subject to which way it was mounted.

Remember that the rear quarter panels will obscure most trailer rear lamps.

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PS. Two blokes can carry a fully LWB roof, or a LWB tub.

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