Shipping Container HITCH BUILD!

Airbag jack. This thing rules!! It would have made moving the shipping container easier. (I did a review video on it)
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We needed to move a shipping container, so we did it ourselves! In this video, which is PART 2, I build the hitch that pins on to the front.
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[@shanejongebloed3590]

Having lived in Oklahoma for 12 mths and spent a little time in Kansas I always look forward to your content, an individual just trying to make his way in the craziness of this days. Just Honest content. Keep it up from Oz 🇦🇺

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

I appreciate that!

[@x.x..x.x]

Great to see an Aussie here. I'm from Oklahoma but lived in Australia and New Zealand 4 times since 2007 up to 2017. Lived and worked in Syd, Toora, Darwin, Perth, and Shepparton. Spent time in Alice, Adelaide and Brissy as well. Where in Oklahoma did you live?

[@sixtyfiveford]

Awesome. I've sketched out and toyed around with this idea for probably a decade now.

[@greenshedfabrication9355]

You’re the man! Around here, there are mobile home axles always for sale. They are handy for building stuff like this.

[@thebeardedone1225]

Great build. Excellent welds. Looks strong enough to lift any fully loaded container.

[@jackrichards1863]

CLEVER idea to move those containers. Considering they have the structural strength to support their own weight. There's really no need to have a skeletal trailer and all the load and licencing and taxation involved just to shift a steel box section. (which is the container profile) You have all the greatest machinery to make the dolly and towing jig. I'm just curious how your channel hasn't come up on my home feed years ago? I don't expect you personally possess the answer. But i like your presentation and work style.

[@kimazbell460]

Looks fantastic. You get a lot of use out of your plasma table and the way things fit up shows that it's pretty spot on.

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Amazing. Just watching you create this with such ease.....just amazing. Looking forward to your next projects!

[@jimzivny1554]

Great project. Heres an idea when you need pieces of DOM tubing. If you find a shop nearby that builds off road or drag car chassis or roll cages they use mostly DOM tubing. They all have a barrel of shorts and cut-offs, you could probably get some cheap or even trade. Just an idea

[@tiredofthetyranny9874]

I NEEDDDDD that plasma table!!!!

[@davidelswick3309]

Great job , awesome design,now set it up like a Lady slipper with hydraulic jack and Porter power you can connect & disconnect easy, also raise up to remove axles and Carry them with you

[@bcbloc02]

Well executed. Looks good to me! Wouldn’t we all like for it to be 6” longer. 😂

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

LOL! YEP!!

[@joeg7755]

Awesome build, great videos but short circuit MIG is not good for that heavy plate. MAX thickness for short circuit weld is typically 3/8, anything above that needs proper plate preparation and use spray transfer, stick or TIG. Possibly your machine can do spray transfer? Please, always do a test plate with cut and etch to check your welds. I think you will be surprised and horrified at the lack of penetration on that heavier plate with short circuit MIG. Cheers Joe

[@woodmanengineering9708]

Designing up the same thing... Concluded a mobile home tongue will work perfect.

[@SeppoVataja]

I had a thought about your comment regarding keeping the slug out of your annular cutter. If you can predrill the center hole you could then flip the plate over and meet the slug half way.

[@Beartrap70]

So very awesome 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For a pure engineer 😊 great job 👍 👍 from one engineer to another

[@Ihbinder14]

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy your videos, and glad to see you making more videos.

[@hubertrobinson8825]

Job well done as always

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

Thanks!!

[@seansysig]

This is an ingenious design. If the axle carriage could turn by hydraulics you could turn anywhere.

[@tarbeau8561]

Awesome idea for the hitch on the container!!!!

[@briceman7377]

Should have cut slots for bent pass through fishplates to reinforce the end plates. I know, 20/20 hindsight.😂👍👍

[@MarkBlackman-q3y]

You could save your scribe time and add a drill process into your g code. It will pierce the center of the holes that you want to drill.

[@robertwikeljr-1522]

Cut out a square to match "inside of cross tube" find a second tube to fit inside both tube and the end plate. Weld in place OR make it slide in and out, drill hole through it "top and bottom". Weld a nut inside for a large diameter threaded rod. Weld a large nut on top making a leveling Jack. Use it to level unit on ground back off and remove whole unit.

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo.........I was thinking of useing the top holes to .......a frame ......cheers

[@MuzzahA1]

Great work 👍

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

Thanks ✌️

[@angelmatos5987]

Excellent work friend, have you not thought of manufacturing to sell them as well?

[@diggindiggenit6540]

Just subscribed, amazing build and the boy toys you use is fantastic, the plasma cutter, the hydraulic bender, the cool welder, looks like a millermatic 250 couldn't quite tell, let me guess you must have some type of steel roller as well? very cool

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

I have a small roller I built. Only 3 inches wide. I big 60 inch one is on my wish list! :)

[@ninja2353]

Brilliant, thanks for posting 👍🏻

[@darcam]

Wonder if it would have been easier or more adaptive to have designed it like the military style hitch or "C" hitch style.

[@outsidescrewball]

Enjoyed….great discussion/build

[@liveweyeractual]

How did it pull? I am contemplating doing something similar. I need to get a 40 ft high cube somewhere where a tractor trailer cannot go. I have an 86 f350 flatbed, seems like for what the container weighs it shouldn't have any problem going the short distance that I need to go.

[@jamesrawlings8493]

Is the weight of the container and both hitches depending on 4 bolts between the truck hitch and the truck frame? What size bolts are used? Very interesting design, worked very well.

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

Yep, the truck hitch is bolted on with 4 bolts. They are 3/4 inch diameter, grade 5. IIRC that's about 33,000 lbs of shear for each bolt, which is 132,000 lbs (ish) of shear. That should be enough! :)

[@Mr.Donahue]

We need a collab with Tom Stanton. He can build a light weight plane.

[@gerryoneill8881]

Great work well thought out.

[@allamerican1248]

Nice work!

[@peetky8645]

I heard somewhere that DOT requires 5 bolts on each side of a hitch to frame connection

[@ervinst.germain3886]

I'm wondering how much this was to make and if you considered selling them?

[@CncObsession]

Damn fine fab work.

[@dandailey1857]

Wish - build & bolt an extension that will bolt between coupler and trailer?

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

I tried a piece of 3x5 inch rectangle tubing, and it slides in there nicely. Should be an easy fix. :)

[@dandailey1857]

@@WideVisionMetalFab 👍👍

[@gearheartscott]

I like your band saw . what brand is it?

[@tacticalrabbit308]

Sounds like your lathe could use some oil in the head stock!

[@stevenbrown5695]

Any chance of purchasing a set of plans for plasma cutter?

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

The CNC plasma table? That table was purchased from TruCut, but they have gone out of business.

[@dinoprather1254]

Why did you place the side braces so low? You have picked up so much more strength by placing them almost at top, then it would be a triangle.

[@andrewrobinson2869]

Why not run some flat bar along the outside of the centre bar so you can extend or even angle up both side but only halfway on the bottom so you can weld one either side then you could extend a good foot longer easy. Without making it weak.

[@popapoco]

You selling plans for this hitch?

[@Utubegofukurself]

Guy builds a over the top heavy hitch and bolts it on with four grade 5 bolts!!!!

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

The shear strength of those 4x 3/4 bolts is over 130,000 lbs. That's a pretty good ratio for a an 8500 lb load. Also, I looked at flatbed gooseneck bolt down plates, and DOT only requires 4x 5/8 bolts.

[@MrSmithDotShop]

Is your scribe spring loaded? Is that something you made or purchased?

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

I bought it, It's called EasyScriber. It's over at "theeasyscriber.com"

[@leshenderson5746]

Got more money in that shop than most people have in there homes.. 😅

[@darcam]

Yep, it's great to have the room and equipment to carry out various projects

[@SomeTechGuy666]

Nice truck hitch but by far the weakest part are the 4 bolts that attach it to the truck. If you ran FEA on it you would see what I mean.

[@KittyBatSeth]

2 Questions. what kind of truck do you have and do you have a CDL?

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

It's an International S1900.

[@robsdeviceunknown]

What's sad is i may have to do this. I have called no less than a dozen transport places here in Georgia to move my 40' container, not a one would return my call or e-mail. It's like people dont want to make money. only problem is I currently don't have a truck capable of hauling it.

[@dudleycornman1624]

I've seen them called swan necks when they come from under...

[@jackdawg4579]

short A frames are the bane of my life! So many caravans and trailers are built with A frames that end up in the rear of your vehicle on even mild turns, tight turns just cant happen.

[@SegoMan]

I added a foot to my goose builds, what would ding the rear sides door is now up front doors on the contact area..

[@ericchevalier6260]

I’d like to know where you got that press? Did you make it? This is something I need badly. Great video!

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

Yep I did.

[@kyletreichel7871]

Can you make a video going over that press?

[@WideVisionMetalFab]

@@kyletreichel7871 I filmed the build, but my camera at the time was having some technical issues, and I lost most of the footage. I've had enough requests to show the build, I should just do a walk around and overlay some of the footage... might be good enough?

[@kyletreichel7871]

@@WideVisionMetalFab That would be great. Looks like a cool build!

[@edshedrestorations]

Only 4 bolts??

[@sandyjoseph9880]

You tend not to find Diesel Dectives on back roads

[@johnjon6349]

You are quite aggressive with milling and lathing speeds

[@albertorozco5981]

Looks alot like a tow bar 🤔

[@2exiw]

Can you just move the ball back. And keep the original design

[@MasterOfSpaceTime]

I hate to say this but I have to because it's my pet peeve there is no such word as acrost...

[@guttasnipe4702]

Got a real hang up about GOOSENECKS……..