Moving shipping containers without help from a crane is challenging! But fortunately, the NEVA shipping container wheels come into the picture. That makes it easy for you to move large-sized and heavyweight containers flawlessly from place to place. Also, ISO shipping container wheels allow for manoeuvring in narrow spaces.
What are Shipping Container Wheels?
Shipping or ISO container castor is a Heavy-duty wheel system specially designed to mobilize shipping containers, tanks, equipment or structures with ISO castings on the corners. The wheels are normally equipped with polyurethane treads to carry the heavy loads, also cast nylon or forged steel wheel,Pneumatic tyres are used depending on the surface.
What is unique about shipping container castors?
To connect a shipping container wheel to the ISO corner casting of an intermodal shipping container, the top plate of the castor wheel is equipped with a twist-lock mechanism. This allows the clamping and unclamping of the castor to the container. As shipping containers are used for shipping goods all around the world, the castor wheel systems need to be robust and heavy-duty.
On what type of shipping container can wheels be attached?
On every container, we can fit wheels; our standard off the shelf container castors all fit the corner castings of standard 20 and 40 feet containers. If you have an irregular container, please contact us, and we will find a custom solution for you.
For what application are shipping container wheels used?
The invention of the intermodal shipping container is the biggest revolution in logistics. The standardization of the containers optimized the handling and storage of cargo on ships and on the shore. Most businesses use nowadays shipping containers for the logistic of bulk goods over long distances.Our customers of container wheels mainly use the containers not for long-distance shipping but for in multiple ranges of applications like storage or as a short-term mobile unit for equipment.
- Harbour and Maritime transport.
- Workplace storage.
- Tiny container homes.
- Storage applications on the factory sites.
- Mobile hospitals.
- Mobile telecommunications installations.
- Military use.
With high-quality wheels being offered at affordable prices, carsuncastor.com is a great choice when it comes to buying shipping container wheels without breaking your bank.
How to Put a Shipping Container on Wheels?
Putting shipping containers on wheels might sound like a troublesome process, but it is not as tough as it sounds - Watch the below video.
- Make sure the surface and planned path is flat and free of obstacles.
- Lift the container by means of container jacks, a forklift truck or a crane.
- Our shipping container wheels fit in every ISO corner casting.
- Place them from underneath in the corner casting of the container. And secure them with the twist-lock system.
- Please note that a load of a container might not be equally distributed over all 4 wheels in case if:
(1).The container is loaded unequally.
(2).The surface is not flat but skewed.
(3).There are obstacles or thresholds on the surface. - As a safety factor, we urge you to double-check the loading of the container and contact a qualified engineer if you have any doubts about the needed load capacity.
- In any case, never go under the container.
The entire installation process of heavy-duty shipping container wheels takes only about a couple of minutes per castor to get completed. And once you're done with the entire installation process, you can flawlessly move the container.