Shipping containers

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Posted: 8/5/2014 4:59:36 PM EDT

Who does one call to get one moved? Selling my house soon (hopefully) and looking to buy one and use it to store my goodies in for a while and then sell it when I'm done (rather than pay for a storage unit) or keep it to build into a shed

Never dealt with this before.

Posted: 8/5/2014 6:44:01 PM EDT

[#1]

If you are looking 20's anybody with a roll back wrecker can move them. If you are looking at 40's I have no idea. It's why the 40's often go for less than the 20's.

Posted: 8/5/2014 7:40:53 PM EDT

[#2]

Thanks

I just saw an ad for Sourdough selling them. Its like 3500 or so for a 20 and 175/hr for delivery on a 20' and 4100ish (I forgot) and 250/hr for delivery on a 40'.

Posted: 8/5/2014 10:43:54 PM EDT

[#3]

Might want to ask freezinsig as he works for a llogistics company and I'm sure has done it once or twice

Posted: 8/5/2014 11:20:15 PM EDT

[#4]

That's a decent deal for a 20'. We load ours with a loader onto a regular flat deck trailer, 2-20's end to end. A rollback like sourdough has would be easiest for you. Price sounds right.

Posted: 8/6/2014 3:54:03 AM EDT

[#5]

Id check CL for a conex. I picked up a 40' high cube for $2500. To move it from Chugiak to Anc was $250. They gave me some BS about new management and when i moved it from Anc to Chugiak it was $400. Dropping it they had no problem. Picking it up they destroyed my fucking yard. That was Alaska Container Cache

Posted: 8/6/2014 2:20:01 PM EDT

[#6]

Wife doesn't like my idea of getting a connex now

Tried telling her I could turn around and sell it for the same price when we are done with it

Posted: 8/6/2014 2:43:04 PM EDT

[#7]

I trust them to be more secure and weatherproof than storage units up here.

Posted: 8/6/2014 3:13:50 PM EDT

[#8]

Leaks aren't hard to fix. They get REALLY hot in the summer and REALLY cold in the winter. When temps change they build up a bunch of condensation and it's almost raining inside. What i plan to do is take a large tarp and hang it from the ceiling and angled out towards the front of it so the condensation moves to the front into one bucket/container. Condensation starts to freeze and you get ice puddles building up.

Posted: 8/6/2014 4:41:36 PM EDT

[#9]

Don't have those issues with mine, shits been nice and dry the past 3 years... Except when those faggots broke in last summer and stole all my reloading shit, tools and Legos.

Posted: 8/6/2014 7:08:07 PM EDT

[#10]

Who the hell steals Legos??? Seriously?

The ones I've seen haven't had issues with condensation, but I've only seen a few. Maybe you need a few more holes in yours so it breaths better

If I end up getting one and intend to keep it I'll probably turn it into a shed with a metal roof/carport type thing. I'd be storing at my inlaws place and my FIL has had a hard-on for getting a connex for a long time but MIL won't let him.

WIN-WIN for both of us

Posted: 8/9/2014 2:35:25 PM EDT

[#11]

I bought a Connex FOR my wife, Christmas present one year. she loves it.

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