Anyone done any cool shite w/ shipping containers, beyond plopping them out and using as-is? How about some pirate worthy mods?

i once put some shit in one and then shipped it... i think its called a container that ships.

What kinda cool shit can someone do with a fucking steel box?

O look, i made mine dance and fetch the paper.

I turned one into a submarine and launched an attack on the Somali pirates. :flipoff2:

Bury it into and embankment and make a storm shelter out of it.

My buddy just moved into his in Nicaragua. Pretty cool use of materials.

This (http://www.tech-nica.net/) is his company's website. He has a bunch of pics on his Facebook page too.

you could make a pool
Google this shit.

A lot of architects are using them to do housing:

Here is a directory:
http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm

Here is the project some Seattle guys I have done some work with created:
http://www.hybridseattle.com/image/c320%20studio.jpg
and
http://www.hybridseattle.com/image/georgetown%20loft.jpg

Yep we're looking at converting them for temporary housing for bush camps etc.

I put car airbags on one and used it to steal some US mint plates back from the Iraqis.

It would be cool to make into a BBQ/bar/dining area and then lay a cement slab down next to it and cover it. A patio of sorts for entertaining or just a place to hang out.

Go check out the hippie blogs like http://www.inhabitat.com/ http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ and http://design-milk.com/ they have a hard on for shipping containers.

Pretty sweet container build, the interior styling isn't my style but it's nicely done:

http://www.readymade.com/magazine/article/hartman_kable_shacks_up_beach_side
http://www.surfshackbox.com/index.html

you just keep believing the "green" bullshit.......:shaking:

get a few 40 footers. cut the doors off and weld them end to end. built up dirt berms on each side.

lighting, ventilation, bullet trap and a bench. instant personal indoor range!

A friend took 2 that had been involved in a derailment each had a damaged side. He cut out all the crumpled metal set them so that the open sides were next to each other then pushed them up tight and using what was left from the cutting he bolted them together then built a pitched roof to shed water. We wired it up and now he has a nice machine shop that is fairly secure on his ranch.

A friend took 2 that had been involved in a derailment each had a damaged side. He cut out all the crumpled metal set them so that the open sides were next to each other then pushed them up tight and using what was left from the cutting he bolted them together then built a pitched roof to shed water. We wired it up and now he has a nice machine shop that is fairly secure on his ranch.

That's almost exacly what I was thinking.

A friend took 2 that had been involved in a derailment each had a damaged side. He cut out all the crumpled metal set them so that the open sides were next to each other then pushed them up tight and using what was left from the cutting he bolted them together then built a pitched roof to shed water. We wired it up and now he has a nice machine shop that is fairly secure on his ranch.

That's almost exacly what I was thinking.

you just keep believing the "green" bullshit.......:shaking:

you just keep believing the "green" bullshit.......:shaking:

Huh?

What is wrong with recycling these shipping containers? Hell, I'd do it - but they are too freakin' expensive to get from the huge shipping yards they are currently rotting in on the coasts to here in middle America.

Not that I would build a house out of one, but they have a TON of uses, for the right price.

Set 2 of them parallel, 30' apart, add roofing trusses across the span, pour a concrete floor, and you have a covered parking/working area with locking/secure shop & storage areas on both sides.

Or take 2 of them slightly offset, let one end be a small "garage", build the rest out for a remote hunting cabin that can be locked up and secured out of season without worrying about storm or critter damage.

get a few 40 footers. cut the doors off and weld them end to end. built up dirt berms on each side.

lighting, ventilation, bullet trap and a bench. instant personal indoor range!

And you better have reaaaaally good hearing protection :D

Huh?

What is wrong with recycling these shipping containers? Hell, I'd do it - but they are too freakin' expensive to get from the huge shipping yards they are currently rotting in on the coasts to here in middle America.

Not that I would build a house out of one, but they have a TON of uses, for the right price.

Set 2 of them parallel, 30' apart, add roofing trusses across the span, pour a concrete floor, and you have a covered parking/working area with locking/secure shop & storage areas on both sides.

Or take 2 of them slightly offset, let one end be a small "garage", build the rest out for a remote hunting cabin that can be locked up and secured out of season without worrying about storm or critter damage.

you didn't read the sales brochure did you?

Pretty sweet container build, the interior styling isn't my style but it's nicely done:

http://www.readymade.com/magazine/article/hartman_kable_shacks_up_beach_side
http://www.surfshackbox.com/index.html

I really like how he recessed the glass doors behind the container doors... awesome for off-season lockdown :cool2:

you didn't read the sales brochure did you?

There is a sales brochure for this concept? Or are you expecting us to know what specific site or link your random comment was directed at?

There is a sales brochure for this concept? Or are you expecting us to know what specific site or link your random comment was directed at?

post #8 ^there

http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11762738&postcount=8

get a few 40 footers. cut the doors off and weld them end to end. built up dirt berms on each side.

lighting, ventilation, bullet trap and a bench. instant personal indoor range!

Get some 53's instead so you wouldn't need as many of them :flipoff2:

post #8 ^there

http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11762738&postcount=8

So what part exactly was "green bullshit"?

How much does a container cost compared to say a used mobile home? I mean the containers are cool and all but it seems like they'd take a lot more modification.

So what part exactly was "green bullshit"?

the fern "green" roofing material, the composting "green" toilet

I'm sick of everything having to have some damn "green" angle to it because that's what sells. What happened to real advertising with hot chicks?

anyone know the rating on the connector pieces? would this be feasable?

assuming the "O" is a container. would the standard connectors they use hold it together?

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Other idea was to have steel cables run in tension on the bottom side.

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Here's one from a few days ago. Some of these shipping container buildings are pimp. I dunno if I'd actually live in one though. :laughing:

http://inhabitat.com/2010/08/04/breathtaking-shipping-container-studio-in-san-antonio/

http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/08/hill-container-studio-exterior-view-from-above.jpg

http://inhabitat.com/2010/08/06/fun-prefab-gym-built-from-containers-in-just-three-days/

http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/08/new-28.jpg

http://inhabitat.com/2010/07/22/shipping-containers-used-for-employee-housing-in-dubai-desert/

http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/07/Dubai-Worker-Shipping-Container-Homes-2.jpg


http://inhabitat.com/2010/07/16/fantastic-california-home-surprisingly-made-from-shipping-containers/

http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/07/Boucher-Grygier-Shipping-Container-House-2.jpg

How much does a container cost compared to say a used mobile home? I mean the containers are cool and all but it seems like they'd take a lot more modification.

From what I understand, in coastal areas near where these containers come over from China, etc. - there are literally tens of thousands of these containers just sitting there, because it is too expensive to ship them back empty, and we don't export enough stuff over there to fill them back up.

In those areas, from what I understand you can get these containers free, or almost-free, you haul them away.

Now here in TN (and most other areas some distance from major shipyards), you will pay anywhere from about $900 on up to several thousand dollars for these containers, each.

Here's one from a few days ago. Some of these shipping container buildings are pimp. I dunno if I'd actually live in one though. :laughing:

It's the dimensional limitations that are a deal-breaker for me, not the fact that it is a recycled shipping container.

I have seen stuff on the Green channel on houses built out of them, and the narrow room sizes just isn't my thing.

But like I said - for a remote hunting cabin, or "getaway" type place, sure :cool2:

I was thinking about 3-40' in a "U" configuration. Pour concrete in the middle.
Roof trusses, or just some pipe with shade cloth. Outdoor shop.
J.B.

I want one for my property to park my tractor/implements inside of, so I wouldn't have to haul the tractor back and forth from home every weekend.

I'm curious to see if these are piled up at the Port of Houston.


I've never seen any sitting around the Port of Corpus Christi.

A girls' softball league in San Jose turned one into a snack shack. It has power and water run inside. They cut and framed a serving window (with a lockable drop down door) into the side. There are shelves, counters and cabinets throughout. They load the BBQ and tables in there when they're done and store them for the off season.

There is a building built out of them along 97 in OR. It is fawking huge, if I remember right it is 3 40' containers end to end stacked 3 or 4 high and about 60-80' apart to make 2 walls. It has a big steel trussed roof across them. If I had a line on them cheap I'd go that route in a hot second. Secure storage built into the walls? Fawk yea. :D

Ajyone clicked this? :laughing:

Ajyone clicked this? :laughing:

:laughing:

It did make me curious, apparently there are whole companies dedicated to selling old containers.

Do like nick cage and run your international gun smuggling operation out of it. Don't use your kids birthday for the combo and you'll be golden.

There is a building built out of them along 97 in OR. It is fawking huge, if I remember right it is 3 40' containers end to end stacked 3 or 4 high and about 60-80' apart to make 2 walls. It has a big steel trussed roof across them. If I had a line on them cheap I'd go that route in a hot second. Secure storage built into the walls? Fawk yea. :D



Would make a killer shop done right! How much do they weigh? I'd assume you would have to hire out a crane to move it into place/on/off the trailer.

Would make a killer shop done right! How much do they weigh? I'd assume you would have to hire out a crane to move it into place/on/off the trailer.

Just wait a few years and you'll be able to find plenty of Mexican help. They'll get to Oregon eventually. :flipoff2:

:laughing:

It did make me curious, apparently there are whole companies dedicated to selling old containers.

Yep, and they're pretty damned expensive around here. Apparently an hour North of Houston isn't close enough to get the "Free" ones that DRM keeps hearing about. :laughing:

Thought about using one in the back yard for a lap pool, but other than a secure storage shed, they are useless.

It might make em feel all warm & fuzzy inside to reuse junk, but by the time you insulate em and all that, it would be cheaper to build from scratch,
I know a place that builds environmental remediation equipment and they use some containers, but sometimes they build their own containers, as its usually cheaper than making all the mods for the doors, windows, vent grills, air intakes, power cables etc.



and if youre just looking for a cheap place to live, used singlewide mobile homes usually sell for about $10 a sf, but in some neighborhoods you can buy a
3 bedroom brick ranch for $10 a sf.

I know a guy that just bought 12 houses at a HUD auction in Atlanta for $12 a sf.

too high here...40s run about $1500...53s are up to $3000 now...forget even finding the little 20s any more...

buddy bought one at an auction for $200, then it cost him $400 to get it moved.

all of them I have seen have WOOD floors, are there any with steel bottoms?


I can think of about 12-15 uses for them real quick from storage to shop area to housing to underground bunker to huge corral to...well you get the idea...

You can buy those here pretty reasonable.3000.00$ for brand new condition 40' I think.Considerable cheaper depending condition.

We call them C-cans

Seen quite a few contractors using them for job shacks.Plain jane on the bottom for tool crib/lunch room.Office on top with windows/doors/power/AC/ and prettied up.

Great idea.They can be craned on or winched onto a tilt deck truck.Secure/waterproof and super easy to maintain.

all of them I have seen have WOOD floors, are there any with stell bottoms?

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no but they do have steel floors:flipoff2:

fawking spelling nazis are everywhere...

fawking spelling nazis are everywhere...

:flipoff2:

I had mine delivered monday, a 8'x8'x40', empty weight was marked 8360lbs IIRC. Mine was a craigslist score, right place right time, but the guy who hauled it (he moves alot of them) said it was a $3k container, the research I did in my area, they are about $2600, not including delivery and TAX. I paid $250 to have mine moved 10 miles. After spending 3 hours moving it to the street (this was a clusterfuck) , I was happy to pay for a pro to get it home:laughing:
Mine will be storage, maybe a small workshop too, and will be a wind break for a free standing car port. I will probably put some shelves inside. If I find another priced right, I will consider making a cabin out of it, a loft for the kids would help out with space.
A friend of a friend built a steel room in the back of his for his guns, so after someone breaks into the container and climbs over his shit, they have a 1/4" plate steel room to get into.
They aren't free, but the closer you are to the coast, the cheaper they are, found some in LA CL for $1300-1500. I was looking into a 40' gooseneck trailer project a while back. The guy was a recycler, he was hauling his nonferrous metals to LA for better pricing, and was going to start bringing back 2 20' containers each time.

We brought one up to my cabin and use it as a workshop. Have benches along one wall and tools hanging along the other wall. It also gave allowed us to gravity feed water for concrete mixing. The cabins water supply will also sit on top of there and will help with pressure a little.

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/7311/kubota.jpg

I'd love to have one as a "man-cave" of sorts to keep clutter out of the garage.
Run some electricity to it, throw an old couch/recliner out there, TV, stereo, mini-fridge, etc... I would also cut out a rather large "window" to let in light, and make a bar out of it (3'x10' or so). I'd put one of those retractable awnings on it too...

Think of it like a motorhome with the awning out, lawn chairs, and that fake grass layed out :flipoff2:

ehhh we built this joker and worked out of it for a yr.Welded two together,cut out the centers.Framed,wired,insulated,floored it and were good to go. Office in the front there,party in the back

ehhh continued

Threw some steel and some weld at one to make a Arms room.

There is no shortage of these things here in this country!!!

They have little cities of bizzars made out these... stacked wholes with ladders. There are even shops and restaurants that are built out of these things.. they put up a faux front, looks real nice.

Come to think of it, I am in one now... actually 8 of them, put together to make my two story office building here at Manas AF Base. :)

I'm curious to see if these are piled up at the Port of Houston.


I've never seen any sitting around the Port of Corpus Christi.

Yep, and they're pretty damned expensive around here. Apparently an hour North of Houston isn't close enough to get the "Free" ones that DRM keeps hearing about. :laughing:


I worked at the Port of Houston's Bayport Terminal for 4 years (built the first phase, actually). There are definitely not free ones everywhere begging to be hauled off. (Did I just say DRM was wrong??)

I used to buy quite a few 20-footers. We usually paid ~$1200-1500 for one in good condition to use as storage at our jobsites. A 40' can be found for around $2k. The longer odd-sized ones tend to be quite a bit more expensive because they're aren't many of them kicking around.

If you run up 146 toward Baytown or through Barbour's cut, you'll see tens of thousands of them stacked up....but they aren't free! :laughing: