{"id":8022,"date":"2016-08-29T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:30:10","slug":"moving-a-container-redneck-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=8022","title":{"rendered":"Moving a container &#8211; redneck style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was called in yesteday by my neighbour to help out two guys getting an old container on to a trailer. Turned out to be a bit more work than expected, but we had a lot of fun and several good laughs (and just ot mention it from the start, it all went well)<\/p>\n<p>Can it be lifted? Yes it can!<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont1.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont1.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The trailer is ready to be pushed underneath<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont2.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont2.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Had to level the tractor<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont3.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont3.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Time for a break<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont4_break.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont4_break.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Phase 1 done &#8211; mounted on the trailer, now phase 2 &#8211; Pull it out. Good thing I have more than one tractor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont5_towing.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont5_towing.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We needed to level the trailer as well<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont6_level.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont6_level.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Testing it on the car. We did not actually believe it at first, but the container was in perfect balance, so we could actually lift it from the trailer hitch with no help at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont7_testing.JPG?mtime=1472461938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont7_testing.JPG?mtime=1472461938\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Phase 3 &#8211; Securing the load<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont8_securing.JPG?mtime=1472461939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont8_securing.JPG?mtime=1472461939\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Phase 4 &#8211; Getting ready to go<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont9_1_ready.JPG?mtime=1472461939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont9_1_ready.JPG?mtime=1472461939\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Volvo equals tractor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont9_2_ready.JPG?mtime=1472461939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2016\/08\/cont9_2_ready.JPG?mtime=1472461939\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was called in yesteday by my neighbour to help out two guys getting an old container on to a trailer. Turned out to be a bit more work than expected, but we had a lot of fun and several good laughs (and just ot mention it from the start, it all went well) Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}