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Dirk,
If you choose to build your own crate for consolidation into a container shipment bear in mind that a container has 92" net inside width. Make a crate 90" wide and forklift able from the long side. It will fit in neatly.
I recommended 3/4" ply because the ply in that thickness has a multitude of uses after the fact.
It's not that big a deal. Shipments of the type and size you describe have been going over the water since the dawn of man. Good luck.
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Just another by the by. I don't know what type of wood tools you are shipping but at this time tools here are pretty cheap if you are paying attention. If you could sell yours there and get a better price and rebuy here you could save tons.
Examples;
Yard Sales in HPP are phenomnal, people come from all over because the people who are giving up or who got foreclosed on and selling everything and moving back. Some ship back to the mainland but not most. I'd bring no furniture unless they're antiques or heirlooms.
I think the only piece I brought the first time was my roll top desk and it's a mini.
I got a "wood shop" at auction. Table saw, lathe, moulding spaper w/knives, joiner/shaper, planer/sander, industrial shop vac with hoses to all the big equipt. and more.
All way cheap, and no shipping.
Other equiptment, backhoes, bobcats, trucks, D-9's are all over the place for sale. Benifits of the housing boom, contractors go back to the mainland but they bought this stuff here so it stays and gets passed on.
On the plywood, 3/4 is heavier than you'd need because they ship pallettes naked, no covering. Wrapped in plastic. You could reuse it but it's an added cost up front. Seriously I've done 3or4 out of 1/4 ply with 0. zero breakage.
But grease that stuff down, 1 week at sea is a lot of nasty salt air rusting those tools surfaces that aren't protected.
Another idea you may use is hit every flea market in your area and buy every trunk you can spot. Foot lockers, hump backs, military, steamship trunks or wooden ones. I collected 24 different sized ones. organized those brakables into the trunks, stack the trunks on the pallettes and then put the 1/4 wrapper around it, ok that's my trick to beat Matson. DIY
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Reviving this thread.Piano, a couple of bikes, about 20 boxes of household goods, a garden shed, a bed, a bench, some other things to be determined. Too little for a 20 foot container. More like a ten foot. I am not handy in the least (in that way) and could not build a crate. Does someone do this?
Relocube wants $3800.
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What size is their container? If you can get all your stuff in the cube, sounds reasonable Kelena. As I posted above, it was 3700 bucks 6 years ago this month and the 3 creats probably equaled just over half maybe just shy of 2/3 of a 20 footer.
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Horizon is charging me just under $8000 for a 20 footer from Baton Rouge to Hilo port.
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You may also be able to share space on a container....
Couple of years ago I found a great 7' kitchen counter sink in the East Bay area & there was someone in the Mission Dist who was shipping a 40' out & looking for people to share.... It was a good deal for me (the most expensive part was getting someone to truck the sink from East bay to SF....)
You could look on Craigslist (both where you are & where you are going... or here in the wanted forum... or even check with some shippers...
PS....Does this mean you have decided it is time???? The nene are still flyin' over....
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Relocubes are 7' wide x 6' deep x 9' high. About $4500 from the seattle/tacoma area to hpp. Mine should be here any day now.
actually, you can get quite a bit into one, especially if you have stackable boxes or something flat to stack on top of. One could easily buy some plywood, drill holes around the edges with a hole saw, and then get some hooks from Home depot and strap them to the supports on the sides of the cube, and thereby have a shelf to stack on. You could make several shelves if need be. If you needed maximum time, have ABF deliver the cube on a Friday afternoon, as they don't count weekend days as part of the three days you have to load it (though they seem flexible on the time issue).
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We also used ABF a year ago. They have a website and the 800 number is very helpful. Just call them. We shipped all oour stuff from Tacoma to Hilo in two of the small ABF containers. They were great. The ABF folks will deliver the container to your address if you are nearby a city. Thought the price was fantastic and the ability to call during transit and talk to folks about where and when my containers would be where and when was a great feature.
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