The overall quality of the shipment looks solid and heavy but it was delivered on a pallet, and bolted to a steel cage (inch and half flat bar steel) that totally surrounded the finish mower deck for shipment. There is considerable assembly required for the unit and the need to have tools to cut the steel cage away, mechanical know-how to assemble the unit, and a tractor loader to hoist the 500-pound deck while assembling all the pieces, are required. The package was delivered in the back of a semi, had I not had pallet forks for my front-end loader to off-load it, I am not sure how the driver would have delivered it to my residence. I did have all the tools needed, such as battery-powered band saw to cut away the cage, impact-wrench, full supply of hand tools such as ratchets, sockets, box wrenches, etc., tractor with front-loader and pallet fork attachment, and skills to assemble it all. But if you don't have the requirements, and you are having this delivered to your residence without a loading dock, be prepared to be frustrated with having to outsource it all to a contractor before being able to mow with it.