Expanding my outside / inside storage capacity project

[Landslide]

I currently have three semi trailers setup for storage. First one I got is a 48’ reefer trailer close to 20 years ago now. I have it backed up to my shop like at a shipping dock. I have double wide 6’ steel doors in my shop I open to gain access into it. It has shelving setup in it from the floor to the ceiling 24” deep on both sides plus some other storage things. This trailer is loaded too.

Second trailer I got is a 53’ dry van trailer parked next to my reefer but it’s opening is where my shop leanto ends. It is full of stuff with shelving floor to ceiling down one side of it.

Next is a pup trailer parked out back. I need to repair the garage door in it as the tracks and rollers are fawked. It’s full of stuff mostly all on the floor. A shit ton of steel is stored in it.

Now I’m getting a free 40ft low shipping container that I’m clearing out an area for it to rest. I’ve decided to set it along side the pup trailer and my woods, it’s pretty flat ground there. I’ve kicked around moving my old beat up canopy and putting the container there also snd that may still happen yet. I need to lower the canopy back to its original height (I stretched it up for when I had a slide in camper on a deck over gooseneck trailer that I no longer own. Poor canopy has been moved several times and it showing it’s west and tear. I keep my 88 Sami under it so lowering it would be better for that.

I moved a huge wood pile I have to make room for for the container and I need to get it stacked when I have time.

Some current photos

 

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Moved firewood to temp location

 

[PAE]

My storage trailer has a 6500# rail lift gate but I paid $$$ to get it from liberal land (Portland Or a gun) to my neck of the woods so it wasnt real cheap.

The lift gate makes it easier to bring on drums of fuel and etc.

 

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My storage trailer has a 6500# rail lift gate but I paid $$$ to get it from liberal la d (Portland Or a gun) to my neck of the woods so it wasnt real cheap.

The lift gate makes it easier to bring on drums of fuel and etc.

It’s actually been a bit rough finding someone just to move mine. But I’m looking for like a hotshot with a trailer able to handle a 40’. It’ll be rough getting a lowboy tilt deck back there to unload and get back out. Worst case I’ll have them set it next to my shop and I’ll drag it back into position

 

[PAE]

Was planning on buying my own tractor to move mine with as had a class A CDL also found a bypass exemption for the medical card but its not worth having to do the road test all over again.

Too costly to rent a tractor or buy a tractor and insure it.

The exemption is cool but not all states interpret the CFR the same way, 35 or so out of 50 accept the CFR as its written other states pick and choose which parts they accept.

I didnt check the middle or east coast states as I never had plans to be licensed there.

 

[Landslide]

Was planning on buying my own tractor to move mine with as had a class A CDL also found a bypass exemption for the medical card but its not worth having to do the road test all over again.

Too costly to rent a tractor or buy a tractor and insure it.

The exemption is cool but not all states interpret the CFR the same way, 35 or so out of 50 accept the CFR as its written other states pick and choose which parts they accept.

Interesting, I have my class A license and I had to take a “special” ride n drive with an official after I passed getting my license. I don’t drive a road tractor but if you’re pulling a company or business trailer with the capacity of 10,000lbs empty or loaded you need a class A.

I can drive a road tractor as I drive OTR for a year in 1987.

 

[tracyb]

fucking semi trailers, white trash hillbilly hoarder shit. bringing the neighbors property values down and shit.


and i'm about to join the club also i'm on a 3 acre lot surrounded by 1mil+ homes. haha, fuck 'em. whiney ****s bitch when my dog leaves the property. (but oddly enough not a peep from anyone about me doing my metal shop things here. even when i'm hammering plate at 2 am tryin to meet a dead line) other than some 80's hoa write up thats never been a thing, as everyone violates it. but was part of the signing docs, i'm legal/ legit.



supposed to have 2 40fts (swifts) and 2 28ft (fedex) coming in 2 mondays. the source was supposed to find a way to deliver, they failed. luckily i know some shady folks with big rigs. i gotta check brakes and tires next week.


my issue is final placement, going to get a big excavotor to do that... and they are full trailers. full of new unused bottles from a buddies boutique distillery (fucking guy doesn't even drink, just likes the process, rich people hobby turning a profit). he's changing bottles and labels, needs these gone. its all about weird WA liquor rules. i dont know what the fuck imma do with them, my first thought is dump everything out and use the excavtor i get for final placement to run them over/ crush em up and put in the corner i'm trying to build up with fill dirt. same dudes other operation is a granite shop, at same location, and he does have a plate crusher for the granite drops, might float the idea of mashing the bottle there. but i dont have much free time to run it and everyone here is operating on half a crew. no labor to be had.

when empty all the 28ftrs will be used be used for steel storage. sheet goods will stay in the shop all else in the trialers.

wtf does anyone do with 4 trailers of glass bottles? could flood the ocean with messages and see where they go? maybe start a moonshine operation? i'm in the middle of yuppie-ville things could get interesting.

 

[arse_sidewards]

wtf does anyone do with 4 trailers of glass bottles?

Call every small business that needs glass bottles until you can strike a deal.

 

[Lilyota]

It’s actually been a bit rough finding someone just to move mine. But I’m looking for like a hotshot with a trailer able to handle a 40’. It’ll be rough getting a lowboy tilt deck back there to unload and get back out. Worst case I’ll have them set it next to my shop and I’ll drag it back into position

So you don't have anybody to move it yet?

I might be able to help you out if that is the case.

 

[tracyb]

Call every small business that needs glass bottles until you can strike a deal.

that would be a good idea.
i think the amount is either to little or too many. no liquor shops are going to want them, theres not enough, the license to bottle the sauce is tied to the label and bottle. thats why these are going away, the dude is ending two lines of booze. when he licenses a new line he buys all the bottles he thinks he's going to need, because most often its hard to buy the exact same bottles twice. hard to think of who else might need them.

i believe they are all 1/5, most clear and one trailer i was told has blue colored glass.


i might see if i can get my old lady or someone to. aint no way i'm calling anyone, i hate doing salesman type stuff.

 

[Landslide]

So you don't have anybody to move it yet?

I might be able to help you out if that is the case.

I have some companies that’ll move it but all are semis with tilt deck lowboys. I’m looking for a guy with a one ton dually and a tilt trailer with a winch that can maneuver in tighter quarters. It’ll help get it closer to its final location, but if not then I’ll have it dropped next to my shop.

If you have a contact with a hotshot type truck setup that can move it PM me. Thank you.

 

[Landslide]

that would be a good idea.
i think the amount is either to little or too many. no liquor shops are going to want them, theres not enough, the license to bottle the sauce is tied to the label and bottle. thats why these are going away, the dude is ending two lines of booze. when he licenses a new line he buys all the bottles he thinks he's going to need, because most often its hard to buy the exact same bottles twice. hard to think of who else might need them.

i believe they are all 1/5, most clear and one trailer i was told has blue colored glass.


i might see if i can get my old lady or someone to. aint no way i'm calling anyone, i hate doing salesman type stuff.

I’d advertise it with a bunch of photos. Who knows who’ll want them. Some artist wing nut might want them too.

 

[Lilyota]

I have some companies that’ll move it but all are semis with tilt deck lowboys. I’m looking for a guy with a one ton dually and a tilt trailer with a winch that can maneuver in tighter quarters. It’ll help get it closer to its final location, but if not then I’ll have it dropped next to my shop.

If you have a contact with a hotshot type truck setup that can move it PM me. Thank you.

It's not a tilt but it's 40' long

I've moved a few containers with it.

The first container I unloaded I just hooked the box to a tree and drove out from under it.

That one I used a small telehandler to unload it.

No tree to use

 

[Lilyota]

I don't think we're so far apart that it couldn't happen.

 

[[486]]

i dont know what the fuck imma do with them, my first thought is dump everything out and use the excavtor i get for final placement to run them over/ crush em up and put in the corner i'm trying to build up with fill dirt.

sounds like how my grandpa got rid of a couple semi trailers full of flourescent bulbs his buddy was stupid enough to buy at auction
when the doors are welded shut there isn't likely to be anything good inside, lol

said it went well, dozed a slot trench, tossed them in there in a few lifts, pushed the dirt back over top
gone

 

[ridenby]

wtf does anyone do with 4 trailers of glass bottles?

Build a wall using bottles and mortar.

 

[arse_sidewards]

Build a wall using bottles and mortar.

Probably wouldn't be any weaker than those glass window bricks you can buy.

 

[bgaidan]

wtf does anyone do with 4 trailers of glass bottles? could flood the ocean with messages and see where they go? maybe start a moonshine operation? i'm in the middle of yuppie-ville things could get interesting.

I'd bed you could find some local yuppy farmers that are making infused essential oils or gourmet mosquito honey to sell on etsy that would take them.

 

[tracyb]

i got the trailer at my place now, and have the word out i need them gone...

i think the ones i keep are going to get the tops cut off and i'll have a matching set of cups.

but anyway something like 10-20 thousand bottles of these;

 

[[486]]

It’s actually been a bit rough finding someone just to move mine. But I’m looking for like a hotshot with a trailer able to handle a 40’. It’ll be rough getting a lowboy tilt deck back there to unload and get back out. Worst case I’ll have them set it next to my shop and I’ll drag it back into position

ain't shitting
containers are somewhat easy, there's a company local that's got tilt deck rollback trucks with winches, they move enough of them that they've got the balance point for 1x20', 2x20' and 40' containers marked out on their decks
junk dry vans are tough to get someone to hook up to

I think everyone I call thinks I'm some DOT guy looking for some easy entrapment or something

 

[ridenby]

junk dry vans are tough to get someone to hook up to

I think everyone I call thinks I'm some DOT guy looking for some easy entrapment or something

Most do not want to chance trailer having flat, axle problems.

 

[[486]]

Most do not want to chance trailer having flat, axle problems.

Suppose chaining up an axle or pulling the sidewalls of a blown tire off the wheel don't make money, and with good paying work everywhere today...

 

[billybob_81067]

i got the trailer at my place now, and have the word out i need them gone...

i think the ones i keep are going to get the tops cut off and i'll have a matching set of cups.

but anyway something like 10-20 thousand bottles of these;

Procure or build a crusher and crush/screen them into sandblasting media.

 

[tracyb]

Procure or build a crusher and crush/screen them into sandblasting media.

another idea i just got from a fried is to crush them and tumble... sell as cobalt beach glass.

looks like than stuff goes for $85 per 25lb bag. i'm not sure how much weight i got, but i couldn't lift the tongue of the trailer with my forklift. lift easily pics 8k lbs. so i have at least 16klbs of glass and packing materials in that trailer i even tried a floor jack with the forklift and it wouldn't budge. has to use a 10ton porta power to lift the tongue. (i had to get some cribbing under the landing gear to get the trailer level.)

 

[arse_sidewards]

another idea i just got from a fried is to crush them and tumble... sell as cobalt beach glass.

looks like than stuff goes for $85 per 25lb bag. i'm not sure how much weight i got, but i couldn't lift the tongue of the trailer with my forklift. lift easily pics 8k lbs. so i have at least 16klbs of glass and packing materials in that trailer i even tried a floor jack with the forklift and it wouldn't budge. has to use a 10ton porta power to lift the tongue. (i had to get some cribbing under the landing gear to get the trailer level.)

Even at $1/lb that seems like the obvious ticket. Shouldn't be too hard to rig up a machine that takes bottles in the top and spits out suitably artsy sized pieces out the bottom.

 

[aczlan]

another idea i just got from a fried is to crush them and tumble... sell as cobalt beach glass.

looks like than stuff goes for $85 per 25lb bag. i'm not sure how much weight i got, but i couldn't lift the tongue of the trailer with my forklift. lift easily pics 8k lbs. so i have at least 16klbs of glass and packing materials in that trailer i even tried a floor jack with the forklift and it wouldn't budge. has to use a 10ton porta power to lift the tongue. (i had to get some cribbing under the landing gear to get the trailer level.)

Hammer mill and the right size screen followed by another screen to keep just the bigger pieces?
Something like this to test?

Mighty Mac Shredder - farm & garden - by owner - sale

Mighty Mac hammer mill shredder. These machines are made for shredding yard & garden waste, great for compost/mulch. This is NOT a chipper, but handles branches +/- 1/2". Used for approximately...

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Aaron Z

 

[arse_sidewards]

Hammer mill and the right size screen followed by another screen to keep just the bigger pieces?
Something like this to test?

Mighty Mac Shredder - farm & garden - by owner - sale

Mighty Mac hammer mill shredder. These machines are made for shredding yard & garden waste, great for compost/mulch. This is NOT a chipper, but handles branches +/- 1/2". Used for approximately...

olympic.craigslist.org

Aaron Z

chipper will probably be way to fast stock. Needs a bigger pulley. Get it going nice and slow so it just shatters the bottles without shredding them

 

[aczlan]

chipper will probably be way to fast stock. Needs a bigger pulley. Get it going nice and slow so it just shatters the bottles without shredding them

Good point, would probbaly also want to mount it on some kind of container vs blowing glass on the ground, then tumble it in a cement mixer with water and sand:

Cement Mixer - tools - by owner - sale

Kushlan Cement Mixer. Includes stand.

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Might also need to add some weight to the rotating mass when slowing the rotor down to give you more flywheel capacity (depending on your feed rate and final speed).



Aaron Z.

 

[tracyb]

Even at $1/lb that seems like the obvious ticket. Shouldn't be too hard to rig up a machine that takes bottles in the top and spits out suitably artsy sized pieces out the bottom.

Hammer mill and the right size screen followed by another screen to keep just the bigger pieces?
Something like this to test?

Mighty Mac Shredder - farm & garden - by owner - sale

Mighty Mac hammer mill shredder. These machines are made for shredding yard & garden waste, great for compost/mulch. This is NOT a chipper, but handles branches +/- 1/2". Used for approximately...

olympic.craigslist.org

Aaron Z

funny how the right thing triggers a thought.

the guy i got the trailers from also has a granite shop..... he has a crusher for all the stone remenants. two plates that smash together with a feeding conveyor belt everything drops into a pit. could drop the pallet at the feed side and park the dump trailer in the pit to collect.

that or i need to make a scrap bin anyway and have a stack of 4x10 and 5x10 10g steel (from a job that got too needy, i told them to fuck off and shelved the material. i'm very well set up for 4x8 sheet, the 10' stuff in a hassle, and only order it job specific) i can fill the container and use the forklift to drop an ecology block on the glass. then sift it thru a sheet of expanded steel, and tumble the rest to sell. all the fine crap i'll dig a hole out back and bury. make the scrap bin so i can crush and all other moving of material by bucket on the tractor.

at minimum should pay for my time invested (my goal is to earn 1k/day), but could net a nice profit above that? my wife already sells a ton of little plasma crap i cut for her on etsy, would probably be even less effort to bag and pack galss than sheet metal.

i've also got hundreds of out of service propane tanks out back it wouldn't take much to make a large volume tumbler... that i'd like to have anyway for parts off the cnc plas. (propane tanks i payed $10 a pop for and when work is slow cut the ends off and use the tank bodies to make an artsy base; turns into a fire pit people pay $600+ for around here ican do 5-10 in a day, but its not really fun work, flooding the local market tanks the price too)



i'm liking this. i'm still probably 2months out before putting a plan in action. but i think this has the most promise yet.


should have made a diff thread sorry bout the hijack