[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

[charlie hill]

Not yet but time, money and to a degree health seem to be giving up on me.
It's still on my list.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Fink Sr
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 5:15 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

Charlie you are not giving up that easy are you.

R Fink Sr

PA


On 9/30/2016 12:02 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Dennis, a true container trailer is just a chassis with 4 locking pegs 
> that
> stick up at the corners.
> the 45, 48 and 53 foot containers are built just like 40 foot containers
> except with an extension
> on the ends.  The holes where you lift them are on the same 8' x 40'
> (approximately) pattern on all of
> them.  If you search the container sites you will sometimes find the
> trailers for sale too.
> Locally a lot of folks use long, roll back, low boys to move containers 
> but
> those trailers weight too much
> to move loaded trailers on.   So you get into one of two situations with
> containers, you ship them on someone
> else's container trailer and have to find a facility equipped to lift the
> container off (not all containers can be
> safely lifted in the middle with a fork lift. the ones that can usually 
> have
> fork slots cut in their frame.) or you
> buy your own trailer so you can unload at your leisure and then get rid of
> the trailer.  I suppose there may be
> a way to lease a trailer as well but I doubt that would be cheap.
>
> With all that said,  I've never bought or hauled a container but for a
> couple of years I did a lot of research into them including e
> exactly how they are made down to the centimeter for a project I was 
> hoping
> to do.  I'm at the point now of knowing what
> I need, I just have to find the money to buy several identical trailers.
> That might never happen.
>
> Charlie
>
>


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