From: none@none.com99   
      
   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.   
      
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   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
      
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