spanners and hammers
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the correct machine with the correct planning will do the job correctly
How to shift a 23 ton shipping container?
- Thread starter wasted years
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wasted years
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I thought Corners Transport could do it but they can only do 20,30 and 40 foot , not the 32 foot that mine is (or might be if I still buy it).
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- North West Wales
Nobody’s mentioned welding an axle under the container 
The twist locks and bracket off a skeletal trailer and weld a drawbar on.....
The twist locks and bracket off a skeletal trailer and weld a drawbar on.....
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
FFS my hiab has a bigger hook on it than that 1,
looks like the hook wont last long going by the rest of it
What you going to lift it with to put axle underneath?Nobody’s mentioned welding an axle under the container
The twist locks and bracket off a skeletal trailer and weld a drawbar on.....
The Crane that costs £1200 a day of corse
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- North West Wales
Well four jacks out of an old Vauxhall Astra of course!!!
spanners and hammers
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david copperfield ??
wasted years
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Finally got the container onto site yesterday on the second attempt.
The first time we tried to transfer the 'tainer onto a plant trailer near the site but the trailer was too short and the tractor was being lifted into the air.
Yesterday we tried with a 34 foot flat hay/straw trailer and large massey tractor and it managed easily.
I made a 30 by 40 foot pad on site for the crane and we backed the triler along side , lifted up and swung it through 90 degrees to get to resting place, then cowling and silencers on top.
Silencers were 2 ton!
The first time we tried to transfer the 'tainer onto a plant trailer near the site but the trailer was too short and the tractor was being lifted into the air.
Yesterday we tried with a 34 foot flat hay/straw trailer and large massey tractor and it managed easily.
I made a 30 by 40 foot pad on site for the crane and we backed the triler along side , lifted up and swung it through 90 degrees to get to resting place, then cowling and silencers on top.
Silencers were 2 ton!
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
any pictureswasted years
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H'mm. dare I?
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
so after 7 pages you got a crane in
wasted years
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Don't have a go at me for taking advice you twit!!!!!!!so after 7 pages you got a crane in
I couldn't do it with a self loading truck as they can't handle 34 foot, only 20, 30 and 40.
In the end it was just practical (especially this time of year) to do it this way, it would have been easier if we could have got the crane when the frost was on but life is like that.