[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

Richard Fink Sr rfinksr at verizon.net
Sat Oct 1 13:28:38 PDT 2016


Charlie that will happen have all them problems. my mind says i can body 
says i can,t.


On 10/1/2016 3:49 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Not yet but time, money and to a degree health seem to be giving up on me.
> It's still on my list.
>
> Charlie
>
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> From: Richard Fink Sr
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 5:15 PM
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> Charlie you are not giving up that easy are you.
>
> R Fink Sr
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> PA
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>
> 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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