mike93lx
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With a crane, not a tractor being dragged
Moving a sea container on the farm
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racecougar
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Exactly. They're not rolled around on telephone poles.
Youngandfree
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It will be fine, just send it.
RPH
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It seems to me that contacting container moving company’s would be a start. Plenty of independents moving sheds and containers. Most using rigs like this
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juddspaintballs
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It might be worthwhile to just wait and build a shop first and move the sea container later after it is empty. I wouldn't mind using it and my other container to build a carport for my tractor or something between them in the future.
backupbeeper
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I’ve had em dropped , hard , on my 18 wheeler .
And I’ve seen they way they bang them around at the port and on the railroads .
I'd just weld up a set of these and move it with a tractor. This pic is from an eBay listing if to you it's worth the money VS time to build.
Probably really handy if you need to move one from time to time and not going far or fast.
Spareparts
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If you can weld get a couple of front axles from old farm truck's cut them in the center widen them out so the spring pads
sit on the corner pads of the container. Weld the spindles so the rear axle tires are straight. On the front do the same thing
except don't weld the spindles, hook the tierods to a center tongue attached to the center of the container, like an old farm
wagon steering. Tow it where you want it.
sit on the corner pads of the container. Weld the spindles so the rear axle tires are straight. On the front do the same thing
except don't weld the spindles, hook the tierods to a center tongue attached to the center of the container, like an old farm
wagon steering. Tow it where you want it.
Monza Harry
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I say build them if you are dead set on "DIY" with some scrounging you should be able to aquire the implement axle stubs cheaper than these choices: https://www.google.com/search?q=imp...id-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 [they have really gone up lately!]
The cube rental places used to be attached to towing companies in the past [around here anyway], but the business of rental cubes has exploded so now other moving options now exist. Like these things: [tilt free] https://www.csrcoxons.com/
pay the price and follow the instructions and be onto building your "shop" I have moved garages when I was young and poor, not easy, and no longer as cheap as it was [literally and/or adjusted for time (inflation)]. So as a thing to consider, moving the 10' telephone poles required for "DIY" isn't light work either, to turn, you just rotate the logs as you wish to turn (pry bar and sledge work at the 12-16,000# load you are dreaming about. Like mentioned the ~9000 empty weight listed above is outside 2 high- lift/jack-all's to even lift one end for wheel/roller placement. Hire it out or adjust your longr term plans accordingly. This is just my experience, 3-4 garages, [#1 I was 10- 12 years old and just did as I was told/yelled at to do] countless metal sheds, and many dead vehicles/trailers. In short weigh out the price, timing, and the possibilities of injuries to yourself and more importantly your helpers and those financial risks. Again hire that out lots of specialized equipment and some matching skils, and they will be done in less than 2 hours if set up specifically for cubes/seacans. Harry
The cube rental places used to be attached to towing companies in the past [around here anyway], but the business of rental cubes has exploded so now other moving options now exist. Like these things: [tilt free] https://www.csrcoxons.com/
pay the price and follow the instructions and be onto building your "shop" I have moved garages when I was young and poor, not easy, and no longer as cheap as it was [literally and/or adjusted for time (inflation)]. So as a thing to consider, moving the 10' telephone poles required for "DIY" isn't light work either, to turn, you just rotate the logs as you wish to turn (pry bar and sledge work at the 12-16,000# load you are dreaming about. Like mentioned the ~9000 empty weight listed above is outside 2 high- lift/jack-all's to even lift one end for wheel/roller placement. Hire it out or adjust your longr term plans accordingly. This is just my experience, 3-4 garages, [#1 I was 10- 12 years old and just did as I was told/yelled at to do] countless metal sheds, and many dead vehicles/trailers. In short weigh out the price, timing, and the possibilities of injuries to yourself and more importantly your helpers and those financial risks. Again hire that out lots of specialized equipment and some matching skils, and they will be done in less than 2 hours if set up specifically for cubes/seacans. Harry
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Bill T
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Packed full is one thing. Laid in a shed is quite another. Unless you are only storing bags of feed or something similar, by the time you get the container to your final position, you are gonna tear up a lot of stuff in the container, jostling it around.
Spareparts
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Don't leave us hanging, are you making progress
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