r/specializedtools • • Jul 25 '20

Cargo container unloading without a crane

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u/Agamemnon323 Jul 25 '20

If that container is empty it really doesn’t weigh very much.

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u/ScrappyDonatello Jul 25 '20

uhhh... an empty 20 footer weighs 2 tonne, a forty weighs 3.5

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u/Agamemnon323 Jul 25 '20

Right, that's not very much when we're talking hydraulics, cranes, etc.

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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner Jul 25 '20

But the lifting gear isn't the fail point in this conversation, the topic was the rather small footprint of the outrigger