I need a 781 head and found one on craigs list. What's the best and cheapest way to ship? 76lbs each!

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Chris,
Even though it is right at UPS limit without an extra charge, they are the way I would go. I dont know how far away it is from you though. UPS has always seemed to do the best overall job for the price. The Post Office will probably be cheaper, but I just dont know if I would want them handling a cylinder head.

I would use UPS

I've shipped heads...big and small...and other heavy items using UPS numerous times.
Never any problem. Double box them if possible.

Go UPS, I shipped an entire SS dash, pad, radio in a home made crate that was 100lbs. It was extremely well packed and it got there without a scratch. Shipped it from MD to TX on a five day ground trip for $156.00. Heads should be a lot cheaper.

I'm a Fedex kinda guy, usually alot cheaper, just as fast.

I'm a Fedex kinda guy, usually alot cheaper, just as fast.

Check on Fedex Ground.It will take longer,but it might be cheaper.Also box it up really well, the last thing you want is it to break out of the box.

Fedex ground. Take 5 minutes and open up an account and you will save even more.

I've been selling off alot of my spare Charger parts and some of them are sizable. I've been using FedEx Ground. Usually cheaper than UPS and Saturday counts as a transit day.

I had something heavy shipped via Greyhound bus. It will be delivered to any terminal you choose and was 1/3 the cost of truck freight.

+1 on Greyhound. Cheap and fast and they don't have those crazy markups and costs for "oversized" boxes!

UPS totally destroyed a cast iron cylinder head for me. It was half of a matched set from a 65 vette. It was wrapped in a lot of bubble wrap, taped, then wrapped in heavy cardboard, then double boxed. It looked like it was dropped from the roof of a building down to a concrete floor. It bent some of the rocker arm studs over on top of the valve guides. My machine shop said it would make a good boat anchor.PS; I am retired from UPS. FedEx all the way

UPS totally destroyed a cast iron cylinder head for me. It was half of a matched set from a 65 vette. It was wrapped in a lot of bubble wrap, taped, then wrapped in heavy cardboard, then double boxed. It looked like it was dropped from the roof of a building down to a concrete floor. It bent some of the rocker arm studs over on top of the valve guides. My machine shop said it would make a good boat anchor.PS; I am retired from UPS. FedEx all the way

I worked at USP loading trucks at first, and then sorting packages in the unload side for 3 years. some crazy stuff happens in those places. i do have to admit to dropping cranks on computer monitors out of frustration... "it's insured, who cares" was the attitude. i feel pretty guilty about it now. was almost killed a couple times and saw some death there too. pretty heavy work environment.

but based on what i saw and did there, wrap it 4 times as bulletproof as you think it needs to be. then wrap it again!

ps. i did see car parts etc. fall from the top belts about 2 stories up on the concrete (or someone's head).