38banana

finally she arrives in phuket thailand after a world trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-t...ad_owner-smbtn

picture ; on a wooden trailer over the highway i did get a few years older in 1 day.

ham_r_down01

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Shoulda bought the tractor and trailer too. Lol

f_inscreenname

1, That's a wooden trailer? Wow!
2, The boat in a box thing ....that's f_in unreal. Never saw one in a container or one taken out of one before, thanks for the vid. Getting it out is one thing. The real question is, how did they get it in there in the first place???

Drake22.250

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Pushed it in!!!

f_inscreenname

but how? Not like dragging something out. Maybe a forklift with really long forks?

scippy

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Trailer is (or appears to be) a steel I-beam w/wooden bunks -no rear brake lights on trailer visable or any electrical connection to the pickup truck.....pretty scary!
A container with 2 open ends would solve the problem of loading it.......no push just pull it through, but I doubt that's the case..........glad it's there in one piece!

Drake22.250

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We have loaded heavy pieces into semis with three fork lifts, 28-30 ft machines. One fork on the front near the back end one fork in the middle. Back fork is at end, all three lift same time. The one at the end pushes and it slides on the other forks. Middle backs out when pusher is close and slides right in. Pretty scary but easy to do.

rak rua

Congrats on your new arrival!

That trailer will be a timber Thai style trailer, no brakes, no lights, just a cradle with wheels. They use them for just about everything here. Cheap and easy to fix.

Couple of questions, we don't have big pick ups here for towing so the Nissan pictured is around the limit in terms of size. Without engines and drives the boat is pretty light, how did the Nissan cope towing (dragging) home slowly? I'm thinking about what I can tow with a Wildtrack or a Hilux (3500kg/7700lbs rec max) just to get to the marina and back.....?

Secondly, who's your shipping company in the U.S. that provides the wider than normal container?

There's a yellow cat (sail boat) here in Pattaya named "Gluay Yai" (Big Banana). I might ask him to change the name out of respect now that we have a REAL banana in Thailand,

Enjoy the project, looks great.

Jon.

38banana

would like to have them but to expensive to ship and 200+ % import tax on cars here,boats 7%

38banana

like this ..............they flipped the container on his side put the boat in and then straight up again,what i did not know was that after 25 year in storage there was still a lot of gasoline in the hull that leaked out,this container was a bom.