I put this off and now its a swamp and they are going to tear the buildings down buy it. There is a storage tank that i want to get i think its 20' long and 8'tall 1/4 thick. It has a door way in one end and most of the floor 6' 16' cut out. Its behind a shop thats going to be torn down so its about 75 feet from the road. Its about needs to be pulled out from behind the building then its a strait shot to the street but there is not alot to winch off of. Some thing else is to winch off of a tree that is beside it several feet and roll it over so it would be out of the way and leave it tell it drys up. I have a single axle truck with a 60.000 #winch its a swamp and its going to rain more so i cant get far from the street. I am going to look at it agin tomorrow am i wasting my time or can i slid it? I want the tank to make a place to store my skidsteer.
Tank is around 6000 pounds originally about 1000 missing in the floor and door add in sticktion in the dirt and friction a 6000 pound winch with snatch block for double line pull might do it uphill on the truck might need another snatch block and probably a winch motor by the time its done I assume someone is going in with a trackhoe to take down the building might be worth it to pay them to help at least get it to the street
My crawler in the Avatar lives in a 20' long, 8' diameter tank. Both ends were cut out when I got it. Mine is 5/16" thick. Mine included 502 square feet of 5/16" steel. My tank is 502 square feet. At 5/16" thick it is 1/38.4 feet thick . Roughly 14 cubic feet of steel. Steel weighs 490 LBS per cubic foot, or 6533 LBS. I transported mine on a 4 ton trailer. I bought the tank with both ends removed. It hauled fine as a cylinder. I got it home, cut it lengthwise, and spread the seam to a full 8 feet leaving the sides as vertical walls. I made frames of scrap steel for each end, and buried the bottom crossmembers. Mine would have been over 13'6" sitting on top of the trailer. So I backed the trailer into the tank, and chained it up under the trailer frame. That worked fine. I was a little over the allowed 10' wide so I worried about police. Made the three miles without being caught.
I have a 12000 winch on my car trailer i bet it wouldnt move it. My 1830 case wouldnt even jar it. I tore down a bulk fuel station i ended up hauling 2 tanks on my gooseneck trailer the biggest was 10' tall and 20' long. I had to go down the main street because of how tall it was. It was in the afternoon i didnt like it but thought it would be ok. I pulled on to the main drag and there was people every were they were geting ready for a parade. I think the police were haveing a meeting about the parade because i didnt see a one any were . It felt funny trying to get away with something while the whole town was watching me.
Assuming you are going to haul it on it's side, flop it over to begin with, put a roll on it and roll it to the road.
I got it to the road today. It was a muddy mess. I broke a 3/8 chain and a pulley. I am going tomorrow and load it i bet that will not go easy.I hope this thing turns out to be good storage after all the trouble it has been.
It rained and snowed so i put it off for a day. I lifted the one end and backed my trailer under it. It was in a bad spot 10' from a light pole and it loves to roll. I tryed pulling up put it was to muddy then i tryed pulling the pickup with my winch truck but the dovetail dug in i stopped and lifted the back from the side and pulled it on farther. I tryed winching it on but that only pulled the trailer sideways witch was ok because that got it out of the ruts. I then pulled forwards and lifted the end agin so it could be pulled up to were i had some toquge weight.
I parked my skid steer in it last night finly. It was a job to move it and then build a pad up to set it on then i had to do some welding on it so i had to drag out a couple 100' of leads to use the shops welder. I steal need to replace some skylights and build a door for it. It will be great to get 2 things out of the shop so i can work on a truck in there and i did a lot of cleaning so i can park 2 trucks and a trailer beside the tank. I all so want to put up a chain rack in it this will be a easyer to get to place for chains and free up some room in a storage trailer.
Sounds interesting..any pics taken of all this?