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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #30 on: October 16, 2011, 06:24:51 PM »
I solicited suggestions for the top three feet of the container and waste chip oil has been suggested.  Still working.

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #31 on: October 16, 2011, 06:33:43 PM »
Hilarious!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #32 on: October 16, 2011, 09:34:58 PM »
Was looking at the location in Blackpool Snowdon Road, Lytham Saint Annes,We or I have a few engines at that spot.Ade will be taking 8 or so engines to that location.After the box is loaded The LOT will then need to go to Port at Liverpool as I understand it?

This is just some shipping co I found on line google

The Dock
Maritime Centre, Port of Liverpool. L21 1LA
Tel: +44 (0)151 949 6000     

This place is closer to Ades place I think?

Soooo we may want to find a place closer to Ades and Liverpool to do or loading
 Who has Mates close to Liverpool to do our loading someone with a big forklift and strong backs
Just a thought!

Looks like Lowgear has some oil to add to the BOX ???
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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #33 on: October 16, 2011, 10:23:26 PM »
Engine weights should be available from Lister documentation - I'd suggest that Peter Forbes (listerdiesel, both here & on the Stationary Engine Forum) might be your best source. We can guess heavy for some of the additional bits.

Location wise, yes, Liverpool is closer to me than it is to Lytham St Annes. I may be able to rent enough land where I used to be based to put a container down for loading; we would have access to a fork-lift at that site for no extra cost.

However, I'd like to point out I'm no expert at loading, securing, correct weight distribution, etc. etc. I might be able to find someone who is, but anyone who can offer me any clues as to what sort of person to look for, I'm all ears.

My availability for the next 2 weeks is completely fubar - I'm out of town thu-fri this week & all of next week. Things should be calmer after that.
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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #34 on: October 17, 2011, 04:11:48 PM »

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #35 on: October 17, 2011, 05:22:21 PM »
Does anyone know what the cast iron Start-o-Matic bases weigh, and the alternators?

Fuel tanks, etc., I can probably weigh accurately enough here, but big stuff is beyond my bathroom scales setup...
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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #36 on: October 17, 2011, 06:28:11 PM »
I've seen figures for the tanks but not the bases and generators... quite heavy little guys I believe!

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #37 on: October 17, 2011, 06:38:04 PM »
I can just lift a cast base, about 1/2 inch off the floor, for about 5 seconds, which would suggest it weighs about the same as 5 minutes of football or 1.5 miles of hard cycling....  or it might suggest that I'm a feeble weakling who's been driving a desk for far too long.


Q: If I were to use 4x bathroom scales (one at each corner), would the weight of the object be the sum of the 4 readings?
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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #38 on: October 17, 2011, 07:29:48 PM »
why not just stand it up on edge and use one scale?

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #39 on: October 17, 2011, 07:41:01 PM »
Insufficient capacity in the scale!!! :o

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #40 on: October 17, 2011, 08:20:19 PM »
Hmm, he has a point....

[five mins go by]

92.4kg is what it weighs :)  That's a cast base on its own.

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #41 on: October 17, 2011, 08:50:47 PM »
Insufficient capacity in the scale!!! :o

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Most bathroom scales in the US will go to at least 250lbs. 

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #42 on: October 17, 2011, 09:05:18 PM »
Base is about 300 lbs, alternator (2.5kVA) about 180-200lbs.

I'll check the SOM data sheets later.

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #43 on: October 17, 2011, 11:18:13 PM »
Well, that is considerably less than what I would have guessed! All to the good!

(expected that large iron base plate to be at least 500#)

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Re: Container shipping out of England
« Reply #44 on: October 20, 2011, 01:03:46 PM »
Shipping weights:

6/1 SOM - 1516 lbs or 682 kgs
8/1 SOM - 1367 lbs or 616 kgs
VA SOM  - 1405 lbs or 633 kgs

All are net weights.

You can extrapolate the rest of the set parts weights from that info.

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