I was curious if anyone here has shipped a manual horizontal boring mill without removing the table. Our company just bought a 4" Shibaura BT10b with a rotary table in Pennsylvania and we need it shipped to Jacksonville Florida. The rigging company and a few other sources have said the table is usually removed and the head is blocked up with cribbing/dunnage before shipping the unit. I was told this would help keep the table from getting slammed around and possibly damaged during shipping. I don't understand why the head wouldn't be removed as well, and why the table couldn't be locked and strapped around the bottom of the machine to limit any movement. I was also told the table is usually removed to avoid any issues with permit loads. After doing a little research the permits with this particular unit wouldn't be a problem at all. My problem with disassembling the unit before shipping is having someone else put it back together not knowing exactly how it was taken apart. The person putting it back together would most likely be me. While I'm confident I could do it, I'm not so confident I could do it correctly in a reasonable time frame. Right now I want to take a chance shipping it assembled. Does anyone have any opinions/input on possible solutions for a move of this type? Is there something I'm overlooking here?