Moving a 20' shipping container 20 feet by hand

Soft ground?

Harold

Moving it from an asphalt driveway onto a concrete slab of an old garage.

Stuart

Empty or full?

If empty, once the rollers are under it, it should be easy if the surface is hard, and hard if the surface is soft !

AWEM

Container will be empty, moving it over asphalt and concrete. Stuart

I moved a 60' packing line this way. The idea started with the Egyptians and huge stones for the pyramids, worked for them, should work for you.

Karl

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To protect the asphalt use some one-bys or two-bys to roll on and be careful if you have any downward pitch to travel. With smooth rollers and a smooth surface to roll on the container could get away from you pretty quickly.

And watch out for those fingers. They can get caught beneath larger rollers in a flash.

dennis in nca

Moving "BIG" stuff like that needs a bit of planning. Youll need some means of jacking it up, like a foot jack . you may nede to put this in a hole so you can get the foot under a corner. jack up till you can get say a 6in block of wood under the corner. Repeat with the other 3 corners. then get your rollers under neath ,if possibe on some steel box section. Re jack up , remove blocks so container is lowered on the rollers. Have more rollers ready to put in front. Have a go at barring the container forward. if it moves youll be ok. If not get abn extra pair of hands to add leverage. Have extra box section ready to put infront of the container.

when in place jack up, remove rollers and box section and put on your timber blocks. You might just want to move it again. Ive moved heavy generators over 2 tons this way, using 2in water pipe rollers and angle iron laid on the gravel of my drive. Let us know how you get on.

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While I think your pry bar should be about a foot longer, I also think a pry bar will be a really tedious way to move the thing. My first thought is using an all-wheel-drive vehicle to tow it; secondly, a winch or a comealong, eg devices like

How many rollers do you plan to use? Is the surface flat?

When my neighbor moved a storage building, he temporarily took apart his chain link fence to use the posts as rollers.

It is not possible to get a 4x4 to the other side to tow it in but I do have a Tifor winch and I guess I could rig a ground anchor to pull against but as the container is not that heavy I was hoping not to have to bother, I have a toe jack which should do the trick when it comes to lifting it. As for the roller I have about 12 and was intending to have about half under the container at any one time. The surface is flat and level apart from a sight fall to aid drainage.

Stuart

=============== With a little luck and a down hill pull you may not even need rollers if the container is empty.

I would try sloshing a few buckets of strong soap [not detergent] solution solution [used water soluable coolant?] under the container and using a come-along, possibly attached to a trailer hitch on your truck or car.

If you can put a few holes in the container, mount a 2 X 6 across the end to attach the come-along to.

"The tare mass of containers may vary due to the different construction techniques and materials used in the container. A

Actually, it sounds like great fun and I don't think it will be hard to accomplish. Others have given you good advice, so I won't bother to repeat it.

Please return with your war story when you get the job done.

Vaughn

And take pictures if possible

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I'd substitute the pry bar for the bumper of my truck, and I would tie it off to the truck so it can't get away.

Empty..or full? Empty it should be doable.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

That's a piece of cake unless you're worrying about scuffing up the asphalt/concrete. Jack it up, slide some pieces of pipe under and slide it around with a lever, and call it a day. Make sure the the asphalt isn't soft (from the sun) and no stones that'll hinder movement.

Karl, Karl, wrong, wrong, wrong! Have you NEVER read Erick von Dänikin? It's quite obvious that the Egyptians had extra-terrestrial help in the form of anti-gravity devices - which is what the OP should Google for. When checking for "anti-gravity devices" also try "Israelites". :-) VBG

Mike in BC

I was planing on emptying it first.

Also consult Rev. Farakan for Black Flying Carpets.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:29:33 +0100, with neither quill nor qualm, "Stuart Pearson" quickly quoth:

The asphalt would probably get torn up by the pry bars, but it's probably doable. 2" rollers likely wouldn't work very well on asphalt, though. See below.

I'd call a tow truck and have them dolly it up there. Prolly take an hour to lift one end, put it on the dolly, lift the other end, back 'er up, and drop both ends. Find a local guy who's not busy and he'll likely charge you fewer Pounds Sterling.

That's if it's empty. If it's full, you're in for a bit more trouble and cash.

- Metaphors Be With You -

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:51:22 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Michael Gray quickly quoth:

Or buttered cats?

Asking the mystic Oracle...

Question: If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter side down. If a cat is dropped from a window or some other high and towering place, it will land on its feet.

But if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on its feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat can not smash its furry back.

If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore, it simply does not fall.

That's right, you clever mortal, (well, as clever as a mortal can get) you have discovered the secret of *ANTIGRAVITY*! A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height where forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by scraping off some of the butter, or removing some of the cat's limbs (not recommended, as it produces an unfavourably high demand for fresh cats), allowing descent.

Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this very principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system. The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFOs, is, in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies.

The one obvious danger is, of course, that if the cats manage to eat the bread off their backs they will instantly plummet. Of course the cats *will* land on their feet, but this generally doesn't do them much good at all, since shortly after they make their graceful landing several tons of red-hot starship and pissed off aliens come crashing down on top of them.

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