I just bought and had delivered a 40' shipping container to my block. Spend yesterday moving my workshop into said container.
They look so big when you first get them but then a shed full of crap and they fill up quickly.
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I just bought and had delivered a 40' shipping container to my block. Spend yesterday moving my workshop into said container.
They look so big when you first get them but then a shed full of crap and they fill up quickly.
Get another one and build a roof between the two.
Al :U
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Originally Posted by ozwinner
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Speaking of containers and sheds....
When we first bought our house, on one corner of our block we had on old 11 by 4.5 metre steel framed gal shed. It was poorly made, having been dismantled on another property and brought here by the previous owner. From what my neighbour tells me, when they re-erected it they had a working bee with plenty of alcohol. The influence of the alcohol could clearly be seen in it's "new" design. It wasn't the place to try out a new spirit level.
Not long after we moved here my brother asked me to look after a container of furniture, and we winched it into this shed. One day when I was driving home I glanced at the shed and noticed that it was leaning over and had all but collapsed on the container.
I spend the next few hours trying to straighten the shed by tying a chain to it and pulling it up-right with my truck, then welding lengths of RHS to the top of the container to the uprights of the shed.
It stayed that way for two years, until my brother wanted his container back. I had to demolish the shed around the container to get it out! Since then I've extended the slab and built a new shed on it.
Grunt,
have you though about security? If you're not going to be living there just yet or are likely to be away and it's out of sight of neighbours you may want to weld some angle sections over the locking sections of the handles to protect them from sledge hammers and bolt cutters.
Mick
Mick,
One of my customers is Locksmith Supply Company. I've got two excellent padlocks with bolt cutter protection. That's a good idea with the angle sections.
Al,
I've got a small 5x6m shed on the far corner of the block and this is where I put the container. I'm going to extend the shed roof so it extends next to the container. We'll put a caravan under the lid for a bedroom. I'm going to line and insulate the shed which will be the kitchen and lounge. We'll move in towards the end of this year.
As far as room in the container goes, I'm going to build a bit of racking so I can load the timber and ducting and other long crap off the ground which will free up a bit of room.
Barry,
That's a great shed ya got there. Missed the post first time around.
Chris
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Originally Posted by Grunt
I wish that was mine. They belong to a Company called Andromeda Engineering. They reclaim rubber conveyer belting from mining companys and split it up in to strips and rolls up to 1500 wide for the farming and horse industry for fencing and stables etc.
They have now built three of these sheds along with several of those round sheds.
http://www.andind.com.au/