Adam Marshall
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if anybody knows where I can find specs and drawings for an 8 yard skip could you please let me know.
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Walk out door with tape measure, pencil and paper in pocket. Find nearest house that is being renovated. Apply tape measure to skip and pencil to paper.
It weather is bad, take two sticks of a known dimension. Carry to skip in street. Lay one horizontal on skip. Stand one vertical on skip. Take out phone. Snap picture. Print out. Use a scale rule.
It weather is bad, take two sticks of a known dimension. Carry to skip in street. Lay one horizontal on skip. Stand one vertical on skip. Take out phone. Snap picture. Print out. Use a scale rule.
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Where is this drawing from please?
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Spot on Chris, never knew that at the time. It was an ebay purchase and I needed six four yard skips fully welded so I could float them in the river, company said no problem and they turned up a week later painted in our colours for £180 each, that is a lot of steel, folding,welding , painting and transport for £180 all in. He also pointed out they were made in a high grade steel
Bob
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Google images. Search 'skip technical drawing'.
Looking at the logo on the LHS, it came from:
http://sellerscontainers.co.uk/
They appear to have technical drawings on their site but it won't work on my browser.
See also:
https://www.beringer-behaelter.de/en/translate-to-english-produkte/skip-container/
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Ive spent quite a bit of time in Polish Metal Fab companies in Gdańsk and Łódź.
Easy to see why they are so cheap
Its not a new thing - over a decade ago a I designed a machine base that went to a UK companies Polish affliate - had to do a rapid redesign to take advantage of the lower cost by swopping out UK imperial sized channel for metric. Something like £3000 from memory.
Recently had a nibble about another - quote from a UK company - well over £15,000 . . .even allowing for the decade, thats quite a jump . . .
Recently had a nibble about another - quote from a UK company - well over £15,000 . . .even allowing for the decade, thats quite a jump . . .
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...they turned up a week later painted in our colours for £180 each, that is a lot of steel, folding,welding , painting and transport for £180 all in. He also pointed out they were made in a high grade steel
Bob
What!! That is crazy cheap. They really would have to have a tremendous throughput to make any money on that....
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Spot on Chris, never knew that at the time. It was an ebay purchase and I needed six four yard skips fully welded so I could float them in the river, company said no problem and they turned up a week later painted in our colours for £180 each, that is a lot of steel, folding,welding , painting and transport for £180 all in. He also pointed out they were made in a high grade steel
Bob
OK, I have to ask, why would you float them in a river Bob?
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Because he's Bob
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Spot on Chris, never knew that at the time. It was an ebay purchase and I needed six four yard skips fully welded so I could float them in the river, company said no problem and they turned up a week later painted in our colours for £180 each, that is a lot of steel, folding,welding , painting and transport for £180 all in. He also pointed out they were made in a high grade steel
Bob
Holy cow, we paid £700 for two 1-tonne lifting bins and that was a good 5 or 6 years ago.
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Because they don’t float so well down the road ....
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sink if it didn't bobIf your name is Bob what else would you do?
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Would assume there used as tow boats for clearing scub etc on river and lake islands from pictures Bob's posted previously
