Having lived in Oklahoma for 12 mths and spent a little time in Kansas I always look forward to your content, an individual just trying to make his way in the craziness of this days. Just Honest content. Keep it up from Oz 🇦🇺
Great to see an Aussie here. I'm from Oklahoma but lived in Australia and New Zealand 4 times since 2007 up to 2017. Lived and worked in Syd, Toora, Darwin, Perth, and Shepparton. Spent time in Alice, Adelaide and Brissy as well. Where in Oklahoma did you live?
CLEVER idea to move those containers. Considering they have the structural strength to support their own weight. There's really no need to have a skeletal trailer and all the load and licencing and taxation involved just to shift a steel box section. (which is the container profile) You have all the greatest machinery to make the dolly and towing jig. I'm just curious how your channel hasn't come up on my home feed years ago? I don't expect you personally possess the answer. But i like your presentation and work style.
Great job , awesome design,now set it up like a Lady slipper with hydraulic jack and Porter power you can connect & disconnect easy, also raise up to remove axles and Carry them with you
Great project. Heres an idea when you need pieces of DOM tubing. If you find a shop nearby that builds off road or drag car chassis or roll cages they use mostly DOM tubing. They all have a barrel of shorts and cut-offs, you could probably get some cheap or even trade. Just an idea
I had a thought about your comment regarding keeping the slug out of your annular cutter. If you can predrill the center hole you could then flip the plate over and meet the slug half way.
Just subscribed, amazing build and the boy toys you use is fantastic, the plasma cutter, the hydraulic bender, the cool welder, looks like a millermatic 250 couldn't quite tell, let me guess you must have some type of steel roller as well? very cool
Is the weight of the container and both hitches depending on 4 bolts between the truck hitch and the truck frame? What size bolts are used? Very interesting design, worked very well.
Yep, the truck hitch is bolted on with 4 bolts. They are 3/4 inch diameter, grade 5. IIRC that's about 33,000 lbs of shear for each bolt, which is 132,000 lbs (ish) of shear. That should be enough! :)
Cut out a square to match "inside of cross tube" find a second tube to fit inside both tube and the end plate. Weld in place OR make it slide in and out, drill hole through it "top and bottom". Weld a nut inside for a large diameter threaded rod. Weld a large nut on top making a leveling Jack. Use it to level unit on ground back off and remove whole unit.
How did it pull? I am contemplating doing something similar. I need to get a 40 ft high cube somewhere where a tractor trailer cannot go. I have an 86 f350 flatbed, seems like for what the container weighs it shouldn't have any problem going the short distance that I need to go.
Why not run some flat bar along the outside of the centre bar so you can extend or even angle up both side but only halfway on the bottom so you can weld one either side then you could extend a good foot longer easy. Without making it weak.
The shear strength of those 4x 3/4 bolts is over 130,000 lbs. That's a pretty good ratio for a an 8500 lb load. Also, I looked at flatbed gooseneck bolt down plates, and DOT only requires 4x 5/8 bolts.
What's sad is i may have to do this. I have called no less than a dozen transport places here in Georgia to move my 40' container, not a one would return my call or e-mail. It's like people dont want to make money. only problem is I currently don't have a truck capable of hauling it.
@@kyletreichel7871 I filmed the build, but my camera at the time was having some technical issues, and I lost most of the footage. I've had enough requests to show the build, I should just do a walk around and overlay some of the footage... might be good enough?
short A frames are the bane of my life! So many caravans and trailers are built with A frames that end up in the rear of your vehicle on even mild turns, tight turns just cant happen.
