Lifting and Supporting the Container with Jacks and Blocks

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Leveling MASSIVE shipping container get's interesting!

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What happens here

The presenter positions the farm jacks, along with the newly cut wooden pads, at each corner of the container. He uses a hoe to clear and level the ground where the concrete blocks will eventually be placed. He then begins to operate the farm jacks, raising the container incrementally. As the container lifts, he slides concrete cap blocks (6-inch) underneath the corner castings, creating a stable foundation. He demonstrates placing both single and stacked blocks to accommodate the ground's unevenness. During this process, one of the jacks bends due to lateral movement, demonstrating the extreme forces involved.

Goal: Raise the container and place concrete blocks under the corners for leveling.

Tools and materials

Concrete Cap Blocks — Creating a permanent, level foundation for the container
Hi-Lift Jack — Lifting the container corners
Hoe — Clearing and leveling the ground for block placement
Strongway 3 1/2 Ton Farm Jack Strongway — Lifting the container corners
Wooden Pads Homemade — Providing stable bases for the jacks

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you'll get a better look at them we're going to start jacking this thing up so this again is a strong way uh adjustable top clevis position blah blah blah farm jack um this was purchased at northern tool we'll get rid of some of these boxes here um pretty well packaged i've never believe it or not i've never used one of these farm jacks so there might be a little bit of a learning curve i very seriously doubt it pretty darn simple little jack system so this part of the jack will go up underneath the building so it's going to sit just like that and the farm jack as a handle comes down and all we do is just crank it up now i bought two farm jacks i bought one 40 inch and 160 inch why'd i do that well never know if i'm gonna need a 40 inch or a 60 inch so i thought might as well have the two different kinds they're both this is a high lift uh brand and the other one is a strong way brand we'll go ahead and get both these jacks in position now you can see the platform that the jack sits on you can buy a platform for it it costs like 40 bucks but i'm just going to take this wood i'm going to cut two sections that are big enough to hold this jack up and this is white oak so it shouldn't bust but if it does we'll know in just a minute first thing i need to do is make sure yep i can fit it under there i needed to make sure that so we need a platform a good platform i've got the steel ms-140c electric chainsaw [Music] [Applause] heavy thing weighs about 30 pounds i think we better cut three just in case remember a little bitty chainsaw will hurt you quicker than a big one be smart yeah baby so i'm not real concerned uh about the ground right here this will settle a little bit we just want to get down to where we got a good clean spot and try to level this out as best we possibly can for our block to go right right there what a beast [Music] oh macaroni it's heavy all right it's time to let her down let's see what she does here both of these have a release on them oh you raise up ever so slightly ah and release should go down there we go all right operation should be exactly reverse of what we just did we'll do both at the same time there we go well that jack's down and that jack's down wow that's easier than i thought now is it level that's the question and the answer is no all right we gotta jack it up again that is not level looks like i only need one jack oh i can see something stupid happening right now to get the leverage i need to get oh that's a lot of butt…

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