Looking for someone to move 20' container

[~wow~]

We are looking for someone to move a 20' container about 100' on our property. Please contact Bruce or Jennifer @ 982 9294

[David M]

Might try Conans. They moved mine years ago. They had a big fork lift.

David

Ninole Resident
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[lquade]

keaau services (kurtistown gas station) if that is closer than hilo for you..

[john the architect]

Yes, the boys with the forklift. Moved two 20's for me that were loaded up. That big forklift came from the Hilo area to central HPP and cost $500 about 5 years ago.

John Maloney
310.562.0362
johnmaloney3@me.com
Hawaii Architect AR8082
www.jmagreenbuilding.com

[MarkP]

I moved my 40 footer about 100' by hand with jacks and a come-a-long. Should have payed Conan's to bring their forklift back.

[Wuzzerdad]

The guys who do delivery for our Home Centers (Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards) have big all terrain forklifts/trucks combos, and if you were not in a hurry and they would move it when they had a delivery in the area for a lot less, or if you had some things delivered they may do it while they are there for a little bit extra. Talk Story and a case of beer? Who knows?

I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
Mahalo
Rick

[terracore]

We also need to move a 20' container, so I would be interested to hear how this turns out. We were planning to drop the container onto steel pipes and tow it with a Jeep Wrangler (moving the pipes as we go). I know a guy who moved a container by himself using two 10' pipes and a hand winch (come-a-long). I figure a Jeep will be easier than just arm strength. Some people grease the pipes but I don't think that really matters. The contact between the bottom of the container and a few round surfaces is only a few millimeters.

[terracore]

Need to add, Conen's has delivered two containers for us on two different properties. Both were incredibly difficult deliveries. I would hire them again if I need them. On the second delivery they elevated the home's electrical connection using a wet mop duct taped to a broom while standing on a tire (do not try this at home).

[MarkP]

The ground at my place has been ripped but is still pretty rough. Rollers did not work. What finally did work was to get two 16' 4" x 10"s plus two 16' sections of steel channel with 9" webs that fit snugly over the 4x10s. I leveled the area where the skids were to go with gravel first to fill in the lowest spots, then put down the wood with the steel on top. I tried first with the flanges of the channels up to make guide rails for rolling floor jacks. The jacks wouldn't roll and ended up bending and breaking. I finally settled on putting the flanges down so that they grabbed the sides of the 4x10s snugly and so that the top was nice flat steel. I jacked up the container and positioned the armored planks underneath the solid corners. I then hitched a 1 1/2 ton hand chain winch (chain-a-long?) to an old ohia stump with a 20' hardened chain from home depot, the kind with hooks on each end. I had a total of 3 such chains. The other chains I threaded through the openings in the cast steel corner fittings. A 130' length of 1 1/4" nylon hawser that was retired form towing barges made up the difference between the stump and the container. After that it was many, many hours of winching, jacking, shifting the planks which must have weighed 150 lb each, shoveling gravel to fill in low spots, digging up rocks that projected in inconvenient places, and repeating.

I tried drilling holes in the ground for steel o'os to act as anchors but if they didn't rip out they bent. I tried using logs as rollers but between the crushing of the logs and the roughness of the ground there was no rolling effect. The jacks on wheels just didn't work. I tried pulling with my truck. No effect. Flat steel on flat steel worked. Jabbing the tip of the o'o into the ground and levering the planks around worked. Patience and a certain insensitivity to pain was necessary.

Be extremely careful to not drop the container on your hand. Keep a cell phone handy in case you do and even then don't drop it on both hands at once.

Frankly I probably shouldn't encourage anyone to try this. I was probably lucky I didn't get anything pinched off.

[Rob Tucker]

"Be extremely careful to not drop the container on your hand." - Good advice...

Hard won experience is a good thing to share. Let me ask you... would you do it this way again?