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Cat D-6 with a ripper on the back or bigger lift the front of the container and you won't even have back the dozer down the road or raise it with the blade and pull it in reverse . By the time you buy a tractor and a specialized container trailer you could build a pole barn cheaper. You can grade the road on the way out.
I grade roads for my job, I know full well how fast steel wears out dragging on a road surface. Dragging a container like that with one end lifted and one end dragging will destroy the container quickly. No way in **** I'd drag it like that if it was my container. Its a Bad option and the least desirable.
I've seen similar things recently. I had a design for that in my head already. I'm annoyed that someone's already building them. haha
Yes, dragging with a dozer isn't even in the list of choices.
Who says I won't need it ever again? There's a demand for people that can put a container in a difficult location. It might be cheap to hire a dozer, but extremely expensive to fix the road once it's completely torn to shreds.
I do appreciate the attempt to help and I probably didn't provide enough information in the original post. I assumed my point would be more clear since I posted this in the "trailers" sub forum. I've been over all of the available options in my head a thousand times and I was looking for a new one. I already had a professional company deliver the thing to the bottom of the mountain but they couldn't get up the hill because they showed up in a OTR semi. I'm using this as an excuse to convince my wife to let me get into a truck and trailer. I'll plow with whatever truck I end up with and I might sell the trailer after I use it. Who knows. I'd rather spend $20k buying my own stuff and doing it myself and then sell the stuff than trust someone else to get it done the way I want it. We can consider this thread closed since I now have the info I was after.
