On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:37:59 -0500, the infamous "Pete C."
scrawled the following:


Jon Anderson wrote:

Pete C. wrote:

I've not seen any portable side load rigs that will handle real ISO
cargo containers, only the rigs for the tiny little "PODS" or similar.

I've not seen one either, but as I'm looking into moving my shop to Oz,
I wondered how the heck to get a loaded container down to port. Guy that
sells containers locally came out to see my location, due to the narrow
and downhill nature. He can drop off and pick up an empty 20' container
no problem with his tilt bed. But he assures me there's a guy in
Sacramento that has a side loader that will pick it up with 20,000+
loaded, in addition to the weight of the container! That, I am going to
be -very- interested in watching! Here's one link I found to this type
of rig: http://www.cdkmobile.com/steelbro.htm

Cool. I wonder what those run, pricewise.


Nice rig, I expect they are a bit difficult to find. Of course you can
always have a regular crane come out for an hour and load the container
onto a standard container chassis.

Yeah, for only $500 or so, unless crane owner/operators are having a
slow day, too.

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