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Here is a link to our progress on the home
we are building in Nanawale:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kaptkimo/BUI...SEINHAWAII It seems like it is an uphill battle sometimes, but it will be worth it.
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Great progress. Love the pics.
Good luck.
Aloha
Wyatt
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Hi Wyatt - just looked at your pics. Great looking house. And I thought a slab was a lot of work.
Jim
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Congratulations on pursuing your dream. I wanna use that pool!
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Jim, How was the container dropped off? Forklift(s) or were you able to get a tilt trailer and slide it off.
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David -- Unfortunatly the drop off of the container did not go nearly as smoothly as the pick-up in Portland. No one that we could find had a tilt trailer strong enough to do the job (39,000 pounds). So .... the container was transported to our site on a regular chassis and then lifted off by a barely adequate crane. We, of coarse, had to pay for both rigs. Total cost for the move to our lot was about twice as much as the pick-up in Portland and the travel distance was about half as far. Oh well, it all worked, we still saved LOTS of $$$$$ plus we got all our stuff over here. I'd do it again even at that price. Incidently -- Anyone want to buy a ocean certified container?
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Great job. Thanks for the pics and best of luck.
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Thanks for the info Jim.
We want to ship two 20 footers & use then to make a work area and for storage. Setting them is my big worry.
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David - you should be concerned. The whole unloading and placing of the container was a problem. If I was to do it again I would place some heavy items near the doors. We could then have them removed and set on a rental truck. This would make the containers light enough for the available, affordable cranes to handle. As it was we had to get a bigger crane than we needed and keep it longer than we should have had to. Our box was so heavy that once he got it off the chassis he couldn't extend his boom out enough to place it right where we wanted it.
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David
You might want to give Conen's a call. We shipped a twenty ftr in 2005. They had a large fork lift capable of the lift and placement, which meant driving down our cane road. I'm not sure of the max wt, but perhaps 35K. I was very pleased with their service. I had the actual shipping weight from Horizon, so there was no doubt. Good advice to perhaps have some stuff you can off load, but I'd try to balance it also.
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