How to Move a 45’ Shipping Container up a Mountain with a 22’ Truck

No one would haul this container up to my mountain property. It has 30% grades, no guard rails and the turns are very sharp. A 40’ trailer would never have make it around the corners. My freightliner weighs 17500 lbs empty. The container weighs 10000 lbs. I figured that the weight of the engine and fuel would be enough to hold it down. It didn’t stay down all the time since sometimes the front wheels would lift up, but then it couldn’t go over backwards too far. The container overhang was 23 ft over the tru
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