dalmatiangirl61: It is an SUV. Seller does not have any suitable equipment to load it.
The mill is only 5' 8" tall with the motor. If I remove the motor it will be probably a foot shorter. I can probably get access to a pickup truck. Would it be discouraged to try and put the mill in the bed of a truck rather than a trailer? If I put it in a truck, I realize I will need to use a forklift or hire a wrecker. Right now, I think using a rented trailer and an engine hoist is best.
Skids are ALWAYS good. "Average" 1500-series pickup is prolly a far worse choice than a trailer. Sorry deck, poor payload, tall load sits too high, bed-box has poor attach points. And then it flexes.
I'd not go NEAR it with an "engine hoist", either. Not "best" at much of
anything, not even hoisting engines!
Wrecker @ $100 to load onto trailer gets you off the PO's premises and onto the backhaul fastest, is worth the spend, both counts.
Find a used TIRE you can drop over the top of it and you have good tie-down points, all sides.
For the unload, I'd use a timber roadway blocked up on grillage, slide it rather than skate it. Skates or rollers just make it harder to safely control. Sliding or corner-walking works well at easily twice and more that modest mass.
A rigger
(usta bee I cudn evin spael "rigger", but then I WERE one!) could ALSO single-handedly put it INTO even a non-drop-deck trailer working entirely from the base with nought but timber, bottle jack, grillage, and pry bar. Come-along optional.
Downside is that method is a tad time-consuming. Also risky if you aren't already well-used to doing stuff that way.
I do cheat with "many" skates and a pair of decent toe-jacks in me old age, but you can get the timber - or extra/supplemental - at pickup site from any Big Box, 7 days a week. First cut, their saw, is free, more cuts are cheap enough. Coupla sheets of galvanized, you can slide or corner-walk it across even very rough concrete and/or softwood timber.
Carry a hand "bow saw" rather than a power saw to make on-site and/or en-route "adjustments" so lack of a power outlet nor flat batteries are not an issue. Raggedy cuts are OK. You ain't makin' fine furniture nor framing a roof.
No "cardboard" BTW. Shit basically disintegrates into a lubricant in the rain, weren't much use even dry.
Five-buck recycled rubber doormats from the dollar store. Uncut, they'll find plenty of use once to-home. Money is tight ONE mat can be cut up for "many" pads with a box knife. Radiator-hose repair tape (water-resistant adhesive cousin of duct tape) to keep 'em in-place.
Put bungees on your ropes or flat-strap tie-downs to pull a side-strain so they don't flap and work loose.
Put LOTS of cordage AND bungees to keep a rain-tarp in-place. Count it a consumable, even so. The slipstream beats them all raggedy-ass.
CHECK ALL THIS S**T, early, then often. If mere movement down even a glass-smooth road CAN f**k sumthin' up? It will do, and more than once. Lybarger's Corollary applies.