Re: Moving a 40ft High Cube

On Sun, 4 May 2025 21:36:41 -0500, Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> wrote:

On 5/4/2025 5:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

A buddy of mine hauls containers from the coast and sells them locally.
He picked up 3 for a customer and after he got back with the third one
they decided they only wanted two right now.  He offered it to me
delivered for a couple hundred bucks less than the before delivery and
tax price of the local yard full of ex border wall containers.  I didn't
take advantage of my buddy.  I know what he pays for them.
 
The concrete slab behind my shop is where I want it, but it was
completely full of scrap, so I had him drop it next to the slab on some
timbers (old guard rail posts) that would leave it sitting above the slab.
 
I spent all day yesterday and most of the day today moving steel, old
machinery, and trash.  It even inspired me to put several large pieces
in the dumpster that I had been keeping just in case.  An old utility
trailer body, an old DeWalt industrial radial arm saw the last of the
steel bins full of stuff that came with the steel work bench John Apple
gave me.
 
I thought I might be able to push the container onto the slab with my
little tractor, but that just wasn't working.  I'd push one end in and
the other would swing out.  I kind of expected that.  At about 8500 lbs
it far exceeds the 750 rated load of the tractor bucket, so lifting one
end and carrying it into place was definitely out.
 
I ran a chain through the foot on the container, ran another chain
around the safety bollard (concrete filled six inch well casing) by my
rear overhead door and stuck a come-a-long in between the two chains.
Doubled up of course.  With the chains and cable anchoring one end I can
bump the other end with the tractor buck and it moves several inches.
With the tractor up against the container at that end, the tires spun
down into the dirt, the bucket dug in, and the parking brake on I can
move the end with the chains an inch or two at a stroke with the
come-a-long.  It feels like the more of the weight that is on the
concrete the easier it gets.  By that I mean it feels the same, but my
arms are getting weaker and I can still move it so...
 
I've got it about half way in the slab right now.  Had to take a break
and get some water.  Well that's enough screwing around.  Back to work.
 

>
  I - and 4 of the best neighbors that ever walked this earth - spent
the last 2 days putting 1X10 rough cut pine board siding on my house .
>
  It looks fuckinawesome .
>
 One of these neighbors runs a home repair/construction business . I
told him I wanted to hire him to do this job , next thing I know he's
telling me he's organizing the neighbors to come help , for free . It
seem charging only for parts when I fix stuff they broke has earned me
some karma . Balance is everything . Having a machine shop can shift the
point of balance ...

Which proves my father right in that "neighbour are wat you make
them!"