Thank you for taking the time to make this video, and edit it. I realise that it would have taken untolds of time to do. It tickled a lot of fond memories for me. The countryside in this video looks a whole lot like parts of North West Queensland in Australia, were I used to work on remote sheep and cattle properties, building sheds and stockyards. I had a '71 model Ford F 600 Petrol truck that had a humungous 2 speed Eaton diff out of an old Bedford, Yep, just like your old faithful, she was flat out at about 50 miles per hour. a beautiful ol' dinosaur, left over from the days of cheap fuel.

@eliteman7685

9 ай бұрын

The USA Midwest is sort of an odd place. Lots of green in areas but can also look pretty desolate. But…plus side…lots of two lane blacktop to take a ride out, open her up and a bit and smoke the tires silly for a while and have proper fun in “flyover country” 🤣

Good call on the office door. Anything space with doors on opposite walls automatically becomes a hallway, losing half your storage space. Glad to see the Dolly worked out even with the snafu!

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

It worked. That's really all I could have asked for. :)

@benjigray8690

9 ай бұрын

@@WideVisionMetalFab My Father told me that the only folks that never make mistakes are those that never do anything.

@roberthughes2665

9 ай бұрын

@@benjigray8690 exactly

Gotta love guys who show up, never having studied the problem, and decide how it should be done🙄

I've spent many hours taking back roads to get home with large or overloaded trailers across ne Kansas. Sometimes slow and steady is the way to go

Respect! I bought a 40 foot 10 high after my mother passed to store her belongings. Had the gentleman drop it and of course it wasn’t where it needed to be. I moved it by myself with a mobile home axles with ratchet straps and chains. It wasn’t the safest way but hey it worked😂

Interesting build. I made a similar dolly a couple of years ago, using mobile home axles and tongue. So far I've carried 3 aluminum conex boxes with it (slightly lighter than steel). In my case, I just drilled the aluminum bottom rail, and bolted the dolly to the container. My tongue part fit under the container, and was connected with chains and straps, and maybe bolts. I really like your design with the tongue pins and just attaching to the front, with weight holding it in place. Mine was designed so that the dolly could be bolted to the tongue for transport, wheels on the ground. I did connect the lights and brakes, and even removable fender covers. I made a light bar that could be attached to the back of the container, and had really long wires that went to the dolly. I just wire-nutted them together, for dynamic reconfiguration although if I was hauling more, I’d go ahead and design plugs. I like the mid position of the dolly/axles for towing and maneuvering into tight spots.

Awesome buddy thanks for sharing

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Awesome idea, plan. If everything went to plan it makes you wonder what could go wrong on down the road.😊

What An ADVENTURE!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Found this looking for container moving tips, stayed and subscribed cuz your truck is an awesome build!!

That’s a great, practical build for solving the problem of getting the container home. Fantastic.

It's been a very interesting build and thanks for letting us see it in action. Looks like it performed great. I couldn't tell if your truck has a 2 speed axle or not but if not it might be something to think about.

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

Not a speed axle, just a 10 speed transmission. I did buy an auxiliary transmission a while back (brownie box) with an overdrive, and I hope to add that someday... in my spare time. :)

I move shipping containers every day. I have mostly trailers that move them. But i also have a small truck that does just what that one does to set them in tight places that you can't get a truck and trailer into. Its busy every day. Nice work.

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

I'm seriously thinking about adding moving shipping containers to my business. I can't believe the interest this has generated! There's a demand.

@Jacob-zd4gj

9 ай бұрын

No kidding, I got into it by accident also. With four trucks now I stay very.

Awesome move! Well the songs about eastbound and down but they never sing about the way back. 😎 Oh my the sun! 🌅

If you get a second container you can build a roof between them for a big outdoor work area.

@woodennecktie

9 ай бұрын

you can do that with one shipping container too

@Nath8737

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@woodennecktieYeah but you need to put down some decent footings to anchor it instead of just using the weight of the second container. Plus he spent all the time building the dolly might as well use it again.

What ever you do for a foundation to set the contender on make sure it's *_up off the ground_* and has a *_4 to 6 inch_* air space under it otherwise the steel floor beams will rust out and the wood flooring will rot, *_BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!!!_*

Interested in you ever decide to make another hitch setup I would like one and have been looking for various designs then glad to see your work. I have to move a 20ft unit

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

I've been drawing up a true gooseneck design, and even working on a self loading design. For more information, email Matthew at wide vision metal fab (all one word) at the gee mails.

It looks like a great addition to your business.

Seeing you run the back roads makes me want to go back out there and go pheasant hunting.

@cmleoj

9 ай бұрын

People say the pheasant meat is a strong flavor. They mix it with pork to make sausage. Did you ever do that?

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

@@cmleoj ??? Mother would batter & fry. Just has a lot of small tendons tough as the few in a turkey...

@cmleoj

9 ай бұрын

@@charlesangell_bulmtl Thanks for responding. That’s interesting. I knew a couple in Denver who had a getaway place in Nebraska. The husband had been hunting Pheasant for over fifty years. His second wife was the one who told me about it having a strong flavor. I’ve never tried it. I might get around to trying it one of these days. Down here in Texas I used to hunt squirrels. No shortage of them to fry up or put in a gumbo. I can see how they might take some getting used to!

I used to have a '73 Duster with a 318 and a 4 spd but a 4.56:1 rear end. I feel ya with a screaming engine to go 50mph.

Great work, well done.

Just watched this, and honestly, great job! Having that ole rig with the crane, amazing how well it worked. I’m up in NE Kansas and as soon as I seen that, made me realize I don’t have the right equipment to do some of the stuff I want to 🤣 Also reminds me I REALLY need to get some plates plasma cut to reinforce a car hood… I should be resting and I just want to go wrench on my stuff in 100 degree midwest fun 🤣

good job. next time put plywood under container it will slide better on the ground. the guy that delivered mine taught me that trick.

Very cool build. Gotta love the KS backroads. Curious what you think the tongue weight was?

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

I would say very close to the 2,000 lbs I estimated. (In the dolly build video, in case you missed my math explanation.)

Lol, not going on the highway because of the DOT. Beautiful country. Prop the container up off the ground for air circulation. The floor is wood and will rot with out good circulation.

Can I ask what gear ratio the truck has? I have a 1988 international S1654 rollback truck with a 538 rear differential and it barely reaches 55 on a good day with the wind behind me which sucks. I only have a 7.3 idi diesel with a 5 speed.. ty for your help, time. Love the setup you built, designed. If I lived closer to you I would have loved to help build and retrieve the container.

Better not let the yuppie overlanders see this. Or they're all gonna run out and buy shipping containers and make overlanding trailers out of them.😊😊😊

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

Bet most of them would bail...

nice work. glad to see it worked well with just a few kinks in installing it. I don't know about the lathe and how the weight will affect the floor, might want to reinforce ti a bit so it doesn't sag or start bouncing if you use it in there.

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

I'm thinking about setting the lathe on a 3 inch square tubing frame. This will lift the lathe a bit, as I'm just tall enough I find the lathe handles a bit low to reach, and then I wouldn't have to worry about how strong the floor is.

Glad the move was uneventful.

We are really dry here in NE Texas too, lots of fires and hungry cows

When are you gonna start up a container moving business? Hire that hardware out!

What she was too proper to say was, You welded it in place so it GD sure wasn't moving...👍 Doesn't 7018 run so nice?😊

Cool back roads but I’d bet you don’t want to be on that sandy road in a driving rain.

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

Drains better than the black high clay in north and central KS where he's from... Stepfather told a story of sinking a tractor mid field during a cloud burst to it's axles not knowing....He'd come from around Wichita where that sand was more forgiving...

How you make the hitch. Can make a video. Great videos. Thanks

Let us know when hitches are forsale. Get in touch with Reese Hitches.

Nice move…my machine room is 8x33…almost the same size as your container

Look out everybody. Steer clear of that one . Good luck.....

Curious...you didn't have to put brake/signal lights on the end of the can?

Nice job on your bill bro I like your truck by the way I got a question what state do you live in cuz I never seen dirt roads like that for a long long time

@cmleoj

9 ай бұрын

I think he’s in the middle of Kansas.

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

Coming out of SW KS with that container judging by the sand soil content...

@cmleoj

9 ай бұрын

@@charlesangell_bulmtl That does look like that thin soil of West Kansas/Eastern Colorado. Let’s see: we know he started in Palco, drove east, then went under I-70, driving south then turned east. Driving back he had the setting sun in his eyes until he turned north/northwest. I’m guessing the container was somewhere like Susank, almost the center of the state. We need Matt to chime and let us know if either one of us is close. There weren’t many landmarks in that country to rely on!

Neat idea, but it takes all of the equipment that you have to use something like that. You certainly couldnt manhandle the dolly off of the back of a truck. The front tow bar assembly looked way too heavy to lift by hand as well.

A shame they didn’t have the regular doors still for the container.

Id like to purchase that dolly system. How would i contact you?

Container full. Loaded? With that hitch you

Those look like 3500 # axles. I play an engineer on TV. I think you should have used at least 5200# axles. It would have cost an additional $14.79 per axle. Otherwise, a beautiful setup.

@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195

8 ай бұрын

I was worried about using 5200 # axles for a 10k conex so I am happy he used them since now there is proof the light ones held up, heavier axles will be even better and no flattened out springs for me.

I would like to see your door to your office install

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

Working on it. Hopefully I'll have the video uploaded in a few weeks.

I’m curious if you need a cdl for that I don’t know how much a empty container weighs

@WideVisionMetalFab

7 ай бұрын

This 40 foot container weighs about 8,000 lbs. In Kansas, if your truck is rated for less than 26,000 lbs (Axle rating, not "tow capacity") then a Class A CDL shouldn't be needed. (In Kansas, the weight of the truck can be 26,000 and the trailer rated for 10,000 before a CDL is needed.) However, it's best to consult a DOT inspector. :)

Very nice. What do you sell

Lots of great fabrication, good design. Only thing I see “wrong” is the 3,500# axles. 40’ containers weigh around 8,000#. That’s not including the weight of the carriage.

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

In my video of the dolly build, I go over the math. It's fine because I'm putting 2,000 lbs of that 8,000 lbs on the hitch.

@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195

8 ай бұрын

Every 40 foot conex I have seen and both the ones I own say right on the box they weigh 10k when empty but the maximum they can weigh is 67k so maybe they have all been heavier boxes.

Do you think your idea could be modified to retrieve and offload a lightly loaded(say 5-7k lbs of contents) in a 20 or 40 ft. I have several ideas one similar to yours but since I don’t a heavy truck with cedar and outriggers a semi self contained hydraulic system possible air over hydraulic fluid. Have a livid ideas. Want to live my household possessions about 450 miles mostly interstate. It’s either a desk and or an older trailer that’s still road worthy.

@WideVisionMetalFab

9 ай бұрын

If the axles are rated for it, and set in the correct place, I don't think it would be a problem. I've been playing with a self loading design, which there seems to be a lot of interest in. I think it could be lifted with a couple jacks and 4 jack stands. It would just take a while.

Honestly it's better to be wider than narrow as you never know what you might need to use it on! Unless ALL shipping containers are the same width.

@NTM2009

9 ай бұрын

Yes all shipping containers are the same width and they also have the lock pockets at a couple standard lengths regardless if container is longer then those lengths

Make another set and sell them.

You would go straight to jail in Australia with that one. R. T. A. would have a feild day with you .

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

Sounds quite Euro bastard of them...In some US places considered backwater, common sense prevails... 🤨$afety legi$lation?

@rudychacon7175

9 ай бұрын

🇺🇸

@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195

8 ай бұрын

Yep less restrictions on our freedoms and we got our guns here as well. The potato is trying to turn the US into a communist/socialist society like Europe and Aussie land but 380 million + guns are going to make sure it don't happen here !!!

👍👏

No brakes no lights and definitely overloaded. You are a tragedy looking for a place to happen. Would have been nice to see you get DOT inspected😩😩

@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195

8 ай бұрын

Not gonna happen on a dirt road but yeah the Dot man would break it right off in him over that entire situation. I have done some very unwise oilfield moving jobs over dirt roads and slowly made it with no problems but I NEVER would have risked it on a paved road........well not for more than 5 miles....shhhh

@holmes1956O

8 ай бұрын

@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 I have dont a lot hard to believe shit too. However the secret to not getting caught is to look like you are 110% legal. If the man thinks he wont get write some good tickets he wont stop you. This guy was an ass fucking looking for a place to happen

You can sell that dolly you make just now

Change the gears to a more friendly ratio

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

He has plans, see above comment...Brownie gearbox👍

Did you have any tail lights or turn signal/brake lights? Nice try on making us feel sorry for the landowner. She ain't going to sod shit. Probably at BEST, will rake the gouges "level" and just let the grass take over.

@charlesangell_bulmtl

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣"She ain't going to sod shit."👍Right

@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195

8 ай бұрын

The wife followed and was the brakes and taillights as that's as organized as this adventure was going to get.

@ryebarrell1869

5 ай бұрын

Kansas is probably like Oklahoma, If you are trying to be safe and respectful. Stay off the Highways and the State Patrol won't bother you. And on your county dirt roads, the County Sheriff will probably just wave as you pass and say to himself...... At Least the Farmer wasn't pulling a 14' Hay Cutter down the road... I like your hitch and dolly setup. Well done and proven Theory now!