Lowboy,
They are great for storage, I like the storage boxes because they sit right on the ground. I have a 48' van trailer and it's a pain in the backside. It still has the running gear and everything you put in it you have to try and get it up 4'. When i first got it I built a ramp with rocks and soil right up to the back doors. That was great , but I have since had to move it and haven't had time to make stairs or anything.
By the way your new truck is awesome. I guess I am a day late and a dollar short for your old Transtar. You said a guy from Buffalo bought it? is he going to take it to shows?
Martin
I have an old 40 ft. fiberglass storage trailer here too that I agree, is a PITB as well. I've had it 20+ years, and it's starting to deteriorate from the weather. I've had to move it twice in 20 years around this yard and neither time I had a tractor to hook to it, plus where it was I couldn't anyways, so I moved it the first time with a Ford 555 TLB and almost flopped it over doing that. Then the next time was with a 320 Cat excavator which was way easier. As you said, it's way too high and tends to be inconvenient, but at least it's dry in there and houses a lot of valuable "collectibles" I would have otherwise had to tarp on the ground which leads to no good either. This has a side door which I use 99% of the time, the rear roll up door stays open for bigger stuff to get heaved into. Problem with that one is it's all of 5 feet off the ground with the slope it's on.
Yeah, the old Cornbinder went 50 miles south of Buffalo to her new home. The buyer is a great guy. He and his 18 yr.old son are into antique tractor pulling and a fan of "red" tractors, so he wanted an IH to pull them with to the events. He came here and looked it over and said I was dead on with my description on the phone, no surprises, as I don't want any when I sell something. He drove the old girl all the way home with his son following him, which is about 325 miles from here, hahahaha. I only put 26 miles on it since I got it running and straightened out, so I was a little nervous about that but he kept in touch on the way and said it ran better as he got closer to home. He's got a great old truck with only 131,000 original miles on it that will last him forever now. That sale brought me to the next level, which is this Kenworth rollback that actually makes money, rather than consumes it on me, lol.