<human>: Hi all! Fishing for some advice here from anyone in the know....

I am a recent fine arts graduate from Wisconsin with a focus on woodworking / furniture making. For the past four months or so, I've had to put off my work due to a lack of a shop. I've managed to get some odd jobs here and there with people who have some tools that have been generous enough to let me use them, but it's generally been pretty sparse and I haven't been able to do a lot of (nay, any) satisfactory work. Also, being a recent graduate who's accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in debt without the slightest promise of a vastly lucrative career awaiting me after graduation, I'm shit out of luck when it comes to being able to start my own shop.

Anywho, last week, out of the blue, I was given a call from my mother's 2nd cousin (whom I've met only once, when I was two) whose husband had recently passed on. She had ran into my mother at a family event, heard about my situation and decided (in the absolute goodness of her heart!) that she would like to donate her husband's wood shop to me, no strings attached. After recovering from inevitable shock-induced coma, I decided to research the available options regarding the transportation of a wood shop's worth of power tools from Arizona to Wisconsin. Much to my dismay, it seems that a truck rental for the 4000 mile trip is about as financially debilitating as purchasing the tools myself (admittedly, this may be an exaggeration, but I''m looking at rates of $0.60-0.70 a mile which comes out to around $2500 for the rental alone!) I don't own a vehicle, and at the moment, I can't conceive of any that I might be able to borrow that wouldn't tip right over backwards at the sight of a trailer hitch. Does anyone have any suggestions / recommendations / funny anecdotes that might be useful for my aforementioned debacle? Clearly, even the U-Haul ass-raping puts me well ahead of where I'm at presently, but I'm the kind of guy who likes to have his cake and eat it too...

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<bot>: >>    Need to move a lot of woodworking equipment 2000 miles across the US, but am discovering that moving truck rental is well out of my price range....advice?