I did buy the trailer pictured on the second page of this thread. I looked at renting the JLG drop bed trailer but in the end settled on buying the tilt bed trailer. The jury is still out on whether or not it's gonna work for the heavy 6000lb lathe.
I do have some fears about moving some of this stuff since a lathe fell on me last month and I have a broken leg to show for it.
I got lucky that I didn't get crushed, the leg was a clean break, it could have been much much worse. Freaking lathes and mills are so gosh darned top heavy as to be really scary items to move. At this point, I'm rethinking the best way to get my machines down to TN. I got a quote from a local rigger, that would load my machines onto a flatbed trailer and ship it out to Tennessee for $2600, but i still need someone to unload the stuff and place it in TN, If anyone knows of any riggers down in the Greeneville TN area that could unload some machines off of a trailer for me, that would be really helpful.
Marcel