Shipping Containers: The Box that Changed the World
By some estimates, there are as many as a half billion intermodal shipping containers in the world today, and they move virtually everything that can be moved for a fraction of the previous cost.
Containers stopped about 95% of the theft on the docks , also shut down probably 70% of the jobs. The longshoremen left got a hefty pay increase , and a job that was easier. Oh , and they are still pricks.
In 2010 I bought a wooden shed kit from a big box store; 10'W x 12'L x 8'H. By the time all was said and done, I'd spent $1700.00 on that thing. It was a VERY good shed, but... the $1700.00...
I moved to another location where I had an acre at my disposal. I was able to buy a 40ft, Hi Cube shipping container, delivered and placed, for $3600.00. That's SUPER CHEAP for that kind of fire-resistant, weatherproof, rodentproof, SECURE storage! I have ZERO regrets spending that money! The thing will probably outlive ME!!!
And they make great shops for 1/4 the price of building one. I have two 30ft apart with a roof over them. Machine shop in one & engine shop in the other with room for 3 or 4 boats between.
My very first shop when I was a young, struggling gyppo was a 20' fiberglass reinforced plywood container. It was great because you could add a workbench and electrical outlets to it so easily. That little shop was really cozy and will always hold a special place in my heart.
Containers stopped about 95% of the theft on the docks , also shut down probably 70% of the jobs. The longshoremen left got a hefty pay increase , and a job that was easier. Oh , and they are still pricks.
ReplyDelete.....and Mitch the Bitch's in laws probably own most of them.
ReplyDeleteIn 2010 I bought a wooden shed kit from a big box store; 10'W x 12'L x 8'H. By the time all was said and done, I'd spent $1700.00 on that thing. It was a VERY good shed, but... the $1700.00...
ReplyDeleteI moved to another location where I had an acre at my disposal. I was able to buy a 40ft, Hi Cube shipping container, delivered and placed, for $3600.00. That's SUPER CHEAP for that kind of fire-resistant, weatherproof, rodentproof, SECURE storage! I have ZERO regrets spending that money! The thing will probably outlive ME!!!
They go for 2500 delivered around here for the 32 footers
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And they make great shops for 1/4 the price of building one. I have two 30ft apart with a roof over them. Machine shop in one & engine shop in the other with room for 3 or 4 boats between.
ReplyDeleteMy very first shop when I was a young, struggling gyppo was a 20' fiberglass reinforced plywood container. It was great because you could add a workbench and electrical outlets to it so easily. That little shop was really cozy and will always hold a special place in my heart.
DeleteAll invented, perfected, implemented, etc. WITHOUT THE F-ING GOVERNMENT.
ReplyDeleteThe way it used to be, and should still be.
DeleteThe military actually developed the concept. It was perfected after that by private companies.
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I moved a lot of them in and out of Seattle, back in the day..
ReplyDeleteAnd if you need to, you can live in one!
ReplyDeleteThere are railroad sidings up here that have several hundred empty and idled for the last year-and-a-half.
ReplyDeleteGlad the economy is still doing this well with lowered shipping container movement.
A friend on Nevada has two of the big ones buried into the hillside behind his house.
ReplyDeleteI thought Stormy Daniels had the box that changed the world.
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