Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[mitsisigma01]

Would you get a 40ft'er in the gate and round the bends ?

[Crackers]

Two barns and an Astravan, and you still want more storage?! 

What the hell have you been buying this time?

[High Jetter]

Who's in the dog house, you or @Mrs6C?

[AnthonyG]

You need a Luton body that fits* on the back of a Bedford CF recovery truck, that would be ideal. Or maybe not.

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Would you get a 40ft'er in the gate and round the bends ?

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

[mitsisigma01]

I know I was there ! 

Just get 4 twenty footers !

[Crackers]

I think the only way you could get a 40footer in would be to crane it over the hedge, but depending on where you want it that could be difficult as you'd have to go over the barns or orchard. 

2x20ft would probably be easier and could be brought in one by one with a big HIAB wagon that would get round the gate corner. 

[Saabnut]

Prices down your way are cheaper than here. A 20ft costs what you have been quoted for a 40ft, and that will only get you a battered one!

[High Jetter]

9 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

and that will only get you a battered one!

That chippy's going to be busy! 

[davidfowler2000]

25 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

 

Sounds about right. It was a 11.3m variant

[Crackers]

I bet they're cheap in the States. Time for a collective container collection caper?

[High Jetter]

You missed out 'camper' 

[wuvvum]

48 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

Ah, but with a container you wouldn't have that problem - you'd simply* use the JCB to lift it over the hedges.

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Ah, but with a container you wouldn't have that problem - you'd simply* use the JCB to lift it over the hedges.

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

[Talbot]

Prices are high as the 'rona virus has severely limited the number coming into the country for the last 2 years.  8 years ago they were cheap and plentiful as they were not wanted back in China:  it cost more to ship one back than it did to make a new one.

Of course this meant that a load of self-storage compaies popped up, having bought 100 containers, thus hoovering up all the supply of them.  Now we've got a shortage of them as they're all in yards full of people's tat.  I suspect prices will remain high until we get a glut of them in the UK again after we've imported a load of crap from China.

[warch]

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, warch said:

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

Do you think our current boat would do the job!

Edit - updated photo with less green for @wuvvum.

 

[tooSavvy]

57 minutes ago, warch said:

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

If, perchance, it's is full of would be immigrants.... Chuck It Back (don't tell UK Border Force if they come sniffing....)

😱

[wuvvum]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do you think our current boat would do the job!

There is far too much green in that photo.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

Easy solution to that - buy a bigger JCB.

[AnnoyingPentium]

5 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

Easy solution to that - buy a bigger JCB.

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

45 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Easy solution to that - buy a bigger JCB.

or better yet use it as an excuse to buy 4 JCBs and put them in a RAID array

redundant array of inexpensive diggers

(see also the Redundant array of inexpensive Dumpers already installed at the FoD ) 

[Six-cylinder]

I think this might be the answer!

A decent bulldozer is over 100 tons so should have no problem dragging 4 tons and if a hedge gets in the way!

[Dyslexic Viking]

This got me to check and the cheapest Bulldozer in the UK now is this 1975 CAT D5

 

But it is expensive 10,999 plus vat

https://www.mascus.co.uk/construction/used-crawler-dozers/caterpillar-d-5-lgp/oiukugxo.html

[wuvvum]

I reckon the tractor would drag 4 tonnes if you put it in low range 1st.

Or it might just sit there spinning its wheels really slowly.

[mitsisigma01]

How far into the site are you hoping to get them ?

[puddlethumper]

Get some nice round tree trunks and roll it in using the JCB to drag it. 

[DeanH]

I know of someone looking to find storage for a 20 footer. If nothing comes off it might be for sale. It's in West Yorkshire though!

[wuvvum]

Would you be able to balance a 20' container on the car transporter trailer?

[Dobloseven]

Hope you're going to cut some holes in this here container so as Slowsilvers got some ventilation!