How to shift a 23 ton shipping container?

[wasted years]

Thinking a wee bit latterly here, could you put the crane down the track with enough reach to lift of the artic on the road, swing the container round 170 degrees and lower to ground, resite crane and repeat till on site?

That's what I thought but crane firm said they wanted their machine next to genny site and wagon right up to it.
Given that they are W. Cumbrian I thought a bit of graft might not hurt but lifting , setting down then shifting , restrapping and moving again isn't what they do.
I'm going to be honest and say that I am starting to tire of folk saying I'm not doing this and I'm not doing that and by the way its £1300 a day.

 

[wasted years]

RAMS = Risk Assessments Method Statement,
Surely if you are supplying National Grid this would all be relevant, ?

The only RAMs I've heard of are running with other sheep this time of year.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I'm going to be honest and say that I am starting to tire of folk saying I'm not doing this and I'm not doing that and by the way its £1300 a day.

I can come over Russ and charge you £300, and say I am not doing this, and I wont do that, save you a grand if you want,












sorry i know its not helping, but have to see the funny side

 

[Sharpy]

That's what I thought but crane firm said they wanted their machine next to genny site and wagon right up to it.
Given that they are W. Cumbrian I thought a bit of graft might not hurt but lifting , setting down then shifting , restrapping and moving again isn't what they do.
I'm going to be honest and say that I am starting to tire of folk saying I'm not doing this and I'm not doing that and by the way its £1300 a day.

You would think that if you were paying for a days hire they would do as you asked. No wonder you are getting fed up.

 

[wasted years]

I can come over Russ and charge you £300, and say I am not doing this, and I wont do that, save you a grand if you want,












sorry i know its not helping, but have to see the funny side

Have you ever worked for £300 a day?
Why should I spoil you?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Have you ever worked for £300 a day?
Why should I spoil you?

you would be saving more than my profit

 

[puppet]

you would be saving more than my profit

Could you not just put the genny in a large marquee? Useful for weddings and wild clamping so easily get you money back

 

[wasted years]

Could you not just put the genny in a large marquee? Useful for weddings and wild clamping so easily get you money back

You sir are a genius.

 

[puppet]

I may be but got my glamping and camping mixed up.

 

[Sharpy]

I may be but got my glamping and camping mixed up.

Just had a vision of khai clad traffic wardens creeping round a forest........

 

[wasted years]

Corners transport can do it link Corners just messaged him to see if he could and he has the capability. Good professional firm.

Is he located around your way?
If he is he did a job for my local engineer but he couldn't remember his name when I asked on friday.

 

[wasted years]

Is he located around your way?
If he is he did a job for my local engineer but he couldn't remember his name when I asked on friday.

I've just followed your link and it will be him I'm sure.

 

[multi power]

I can come over Russ and charge you £300, and say I am not doing this, and I wont do that, save you a grand if you want,












sorry i know its not helping, but have to see the funny side

I can do all that, for just £250 , bargain

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I can do all that, for just £250 , bargain

must be a contractor, in the race to the bottom

 

[Chuckie]

Low loader with a winch like this looks easy enough

 

[Renaultman]

Is he located around your way?
If he is he did a job for my local engineer but he couldn't remember his name when I asked on friday.

Yes just up the road a bit, have known them forever.

 

[Turra farmer]

I've got a 23 ton container 10 foot 8 inch wide by 32 foot long to move from Chesterfield to CUmbria.
Because it is wider than a standard container I am told that a double hiab truck won't handle it, even dropped to the ground right next to the wagon.
I don't really want to hire a crane if I can due to the cost (quoted over a grand a day) , does anyone know of a wagon that could handle this load or have any good ideas?
The container contains a a large diesel generator and is worth quite a lot of money so dropping the clutch and setting her onto tyres is out!

Can't you empty it so it weighs less ?

 

[wasted years]

Can't you empty it so it weighs less ?

Might lose a ton with oil and coolant, its all either engine, radiator or the alternator, and I'm not touching them.

 

[Dry Rot]

25 tonnes over a 100m shouldn't be too difficult, after all it has all been done before. But I don't know about the road trip!

Rather than lifting the container in one go, could one end be levered up (or hydraulic jacks), then supported? Repeat for the other side...an inch at a time... until you've reached the required height? Then back a lorry under it?

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Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world".

https://www.livescience.com/22427-stonehenge-facts.html

The biggest of Stonehenge's stones, known as sarsens, are up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall and weigh 25 tons (22.6 metric tons) on average. It is widely believed that they were brought from Marlborough Downs, a distance of 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the north.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

just out of interest,

will the company your buying it off, not deliver to site for a set price ?