Shipping container ramp
#1
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Shipping container ramp
Hi Everyone
We are moving back to the Uk from the USA.
This may seem like a simple question but I don't want to be caught out on the day.
I have a shipping container booked but the ramp doesn't come with it, any ideas on where to get a ramp to get up to the container.
Obviously one that won't slide off when I'm climbing it and one that won't overlap at the top too much.
Is there one specially designed for this purpose I can get?
Thanks in advance
We are moving back to the Uk from the USA.
This may seem like a simple question but I don't want to be caught out on the day.
I have a shipping container booked but the ramp doesn't come with it, any ideas on where to get a ramp to get up to the container.
Obviously one that won't slide off when I'm climbing it and one that won't overlap at the top too much.
Is there one specially designed for this purpose I can get?
Thanks in advance
#2
Re: Shipping container ramp
Hi Everyone
We are moving back to the Uk from the USA.
This may seem like a simple question but I don't want to be caught out on the day.
I have a shipping container booked but the ramp doesn't come with it, any ideas on where to get a ramp to get up to the container.
Obviously one that won't slide off when I'm climbing it and one that won't overlap at the top too much.
Is there one specially designed for this purpose I can get?
Thanks in advance
We are moving back to the Uk from the USA.
This may seem like a simple question but I don't want to be caught out on the day.
I have a shipping container booked but the ramp doesn't come with it, any ideas on where to get a ramp to get up to the container.
Obviously one that won't slide off when I'm climbing it and one that won't overlap at the top too much.
Is there one specially designed for this purpose I can get?
Thanks in advance
#3
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Re: Shipping container ramp
It may come with one but I'd rather be safe than sorry especially with that charge for extra hours.
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Re: Shipping container ramp
Had a better idea!!
Going to get some trailer steps, like the kind you would use to get into a singlewide and load it that way. Should be way safer than a ramp anyway.
I called the guy at Rinkens and he said most people do it by getting some 2X4s,
Yeah I can see me and somebody else climbing the 2X4 with a dresser and the wood snapping in the middle and humpty dumpty never getting put back together again.
Going to get some trailer steps, like the kind you would use to get into a singlewide and load it that way. Should be way safer than a ramp anyway.
I called the guy at Rinkens and he said most people do it by getting some 2X4s,
Yeah I can see me and somebody else climbing the 2X4 with a dresser and the wood snapping in the middle and humpty dumpty never getting put back together again.
#5
Re: Shipping container ramp
We never had a ramp on our move and we wound up using a lot of 2x4's and 2 x 6s. ......We also used a couple of extension ladders......most things we just slid up the makeshift ramps. The few heavy things we brought, we had friends around to help get them up the ramps or just lift into the container.