Any body use a Shipping container?

ldwoodruff · Mar 5, 2015

Looking at buying a 20ft Shipping container to park the rzr's to make some room in the garage , found some on Craigslist didn't know if anybody had some contacts around the Knoxville area ???

halcat · Mar 5, 2015

There is a guy below Dunlap Tn on hwy. 28 that has 20 or 30 in his field for sale. I do not know his number but I want sow for storage as well. I don't even know what the cost on them would be

ridefast · Mar 5, 2015

I have given it a few half-ass tries to get accurate pricing on one with little success.

Most of the CL ads are for shipping/transpo companies that seem to only want to sell to corporate accounts. Or they are a JimBob that for whatever reason has access to them, but thinks they are worth $10k.

I'd be interested to see what kind of info someone can come up with for legitimately sourcing these.

Rohlingoffroad · Mar 5, 2015

I purchased a 48ft for $1200 back 7-8 years ago and it has worked great I have a friend that purchased one form a guy on here around 1 year ago for $1500 it's 40ft and we moved both our selves i can get a 40ft tilt deck trailer ;D

Rohlingoffroad · Mar 5, 2015

HotwheelsYJ · Mar 5, 2015

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I've had a 20 footer for about 4 years now. I'm working on emptying it out right now so I can move it about 100 yards closer to my shop.

It works great for cheap secure storage but gets hotter than hell inside in the summer time. I want to cut some louver vents into mine at some point

Lil ugly · Mar 5, 2015

They are selling 20 footers for around 1800 to 2200 bucks here in North Florida. I have been buying them for that price for a long time. Condition varies but they have always been serviceable even if cosmetically challenged.

ldwoodruff · Mar 5, 2015

Yeah there are some in the surrounding areas of Knoxville for 2,000, gotta check into it, figured it would be bout the cheapest/safest storage building I could get!!

civicmindedex79 · Mar 5, 2015

Rohlingoffroad said:

Surprisngly that thing pulled like a dream and wasnt half as bad as I thought to load.

Steele3 · Mar 6, 2015

Old retired semi trailers or box vans can sometimes be found cheap on craigslist.

We bought an old U-haul truck that had a bad transmission for $1500, its got a 20' Alum. box on it we use to store feed and seed.

Elliott · Mar 6, 2015

I wonder how dry one would stay inside if you buried it?

karatejosh · Mar 6, 2015

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They will stay try if you coat it in fiber tar county boy bomb shelter

CheapJ7 · Mar 6, 2015

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karatejosh said:
They will stay try if you coat it in fiber tar county boy grow lab!

Beerj · Mar 6, 2015

Grow house in the front, meth lab in the back?

grcthird · Mar 7, 2015

I know a guy who has buried several of them, you have to reinforce the roof if you plan on it being more than a couple of feet deep, a small one would make a good, cheap storm shelter

Joc · Mar 7, 2015

http://shoals.craigslist.org/grd/4888605753.html
came across this tonight. No price but they have them for sale

Technician · Mar 8, 2015

Rohlingoffroad said:

Looks very tongue light.

sparepartsdave · Mar 8, 2015

look near any major shipping port, they sell them around here pretty regular. I had a friend that had five or six of them for storage. He had to move them all. Rather than have a truck come load them up and move them. He took a pair of trailer axles, welded them under the storage box, welded a tongue on it and moved the box. When he got where he wanted it, he cut the welds off,and moved everything to the next storage box to move