Just an information thread rather than a question!
Skip folks came and replaced my skip but left the new one in the middle of the driveway - I'd asked for it to be put on the grass as I wanted to use the drive for our car.
After a bit of googling only I had found out that an empty skip weighs the same as 2 kangaroos and a sheep, or a single donkey, but I couldn't actually find any info of how/if I could move an empty (8 ton) skip easily.
After a bit of messing around trying to lift/push the skip, I took inspiration from the druids / Stonehenge and used a wrecking bar and a block of wood to leverage the skip to lift it, then I simply moved it using a rowing motion.
If a picture says a thousand words, I'm guessing a video says a million. Here's a little sped up video of me doing the deed.
Hope it helps someone else
Skip folks came and replaced my skip but left the new one in the middle of the driveway - I'd asked for it to be put on the grass as I wanted to use the drive for our car.
After a bit of googling only I had found out that an empty skip weighs the same as 2 kangaroos and a sheep, or a single donkey, but I couldn't actually find any info of how/if I could move an empty (8 ton) skip easily.
After a bit of messing around trying to lift/push the skip, I took inspiration from the druids / Stonehenge and used a wrecking bar and a block of wood to leverage the skip to lift it, then I simply moved it using a rowing motion.
If a picture says a thousand words, I'm guessing a video says a million. Here's a little sped up video of me doing the deed.
Hope it helps someone else