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We bought a home in Ainaloa and will be moving from Honolulu next year. Does anyone have advice on how to move household goods and power tools cheaply. It would all fit in a 20 foot Pod but Pod doesn't go to the Big Island. The moving companies are giving outrageous quotes based on weight not cube.
Box it up and take it to Young Brothers and put it in with General Freight. Or you can rent a small G-van (is that the name they use? It's a small 8' x 8' x 8' shipping container) and it's not that expensive to ship inter-island. Of course, you'll have to load it in on one end and unload it at the other.
Anyone know what a G-van is, I can't find anything on Google about it. U-haul U-Box only goes to Kona and they won't let you truck your containers to your house to unload them, you have to bring a truck to their warehouse and unload the containers into a truck and then take them to your house and unload again! I'm looking for a company that will bring the 20' container to the house, let us pack it full and then pick it up and take it to the dock and then in Hilo truck it to Pahoa. I just don't want to be charged $1 a pound to have them pack it all for me and load and unload it, we would rather do the work ourselves and save the money.
I think we rented a container directly from Young Brothers. A trucking company brought it out and parked it for a day or two at the house, we loaded things in. (hand trucks and a ramp are really good things). Then it was shipped to the Island of Hawaii, and another trucking company (I think it was Conen's) brought it to our new house and we had several days to unload it. I think we had them drop it off on a Friday and they came to pick it back up on Monday. If it takes longer, then they charge some additional rent for the container.
The other option is to buy a container from those folks down near Sand Island and then either keep it (although Ainaloa lots are pretty small and some subdivisions have rules about keeping containers on your lot) or sell it on Craig's List afterwards. If you get a high ceiling insulated container, there's a demand for those over here. Then you'd be able to take a lot longer to unload the container and if it were something you could keep on your lot, it could also be used afterwards for storage or a shed or whatever.
20' containers are in such demand here that many of the ones available are 40' containers that have been cut in half and had doors added. At least, that was the case 5 years ago.
If buying a container, make sure it has a valid engineer's certificate or the barge company won't touch it. Many of the ones for sale are for sale because they are considered past or nearing their end of seaworthiness.
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