New shipping container shop...

[dixiedrifter]

Ok so I decided to get a shipping container and convert it into a storage building. I know, not really a tractor project, but I did use it to put in the driveway.

It started out really ugly red color which made the inside very hot so I decided it needed a new coat of paint. Rust Oleum was my first choice, but I decided to go with the Olymic Fast Hide Alkyd paint in Secret Passage since for all intents and purposes it was primed. I did pretty much the whole thing including the top and inside with the exception of around the bottom. I decided it would be best to wait until I got it jacked up and weed eated to do since the grass was in the way. I still ain't got it done cause the weed eater fuel lines are foobard at the moment. Total was about 6 gallons of paint.

Before picture:

Its kinda hard to see in the background, but this is what it looked like after painting and pre-cleaning up... so far so good.

After jacking up and sinking power pole:

Driveway shot towards road. Please don't mind the junk I ain't had time to pick it all up yet:

View showing a bit more of eqipment parking area and tractor. Got me a nice pile of dirt going and a grass free place to put all my toys:

View of driveway towards building... I got a mess going!!!

I must say, I am totally disappointed in TSC Cat I hitch pins for my box blade. They bend and break quite easily (I guess they were designed to be used by a sub compact with a cheap light duty implement and not my home built 6ft box blade and M9000 tractor lol).

This little tree was responsible for the pin below:

This is what happens when you gently ease off the clutch in first gear at around 2000 RPM and the tires grab... usually they just spin, but since I put fluid in the rear tires... either the tree goes, the pin goes, or you put your foot on the clutch and go for another grab.

More trees... there are quite a few more of them in the woods that I didn't bother taking pics of.

Coupla road shots showing drive and equipment area:

 

[Egon]

Some more nice pictures.

Out at our "Farm" one of the neighbours has a shipping container used for the storage of fishing gear. We are contemplating using one for storage out at another lot we have.

 

[weldingisfun]

I'm hoping you meant to say that the TSC Cat II hitch pins are junk. If you are using Cat I with your tractor and 6 foot box blade, that is the reason they break. If you were using Cat II, then I agree, they are junk.
I like your new shop. Bet it didn't take long to build.

 

[bjcsc]

I hope you blocked it up from the ground. Shipping container floors will last nearly forever if you block the container up to keep them dry underneath (8x8s work great). If you set them directly on the ground, the floor will begin to rot out in short order...

Cool project!

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

haha, i've been considering a storage container and i have a camry like your's......

looks good

how much are those 20ft and 40ft containers setting you back in your neck of the woods?

some quick growing bushes, a couple of years and you wouldn't even know it was there!

 

[bjcsc]

I don't know where dixiedrifter is, but around here you can get solid 20s for $1000 and solid 40s for $1200 all day long...(I'm in a port city, though)...

 

[Whitey]

Great project.......was the container expensive??? How did you find it? Was the delivery expensive?

Thanx.

 

[montanaman]

Yep, those pins don't do to well on a box blade. Most of the more expensive box blades use a pin that goes between two plates and the lift arm so it can't twist like that. You may be able to add a few bars to your blade and do it that way.

Ken

 

[RedRocker]

I suggest if you get a container you go with a high cube, it's the difference between putting my tractor in it with the ROPS up or down.

 

[SCDolphin]

I just bought my second container 45x9x8. I wished I had painted my first one when I got it as there is a lot of rust on mine. I paid 1300, 2000 for the first and 2nd containers. I wished I had contacted bjcsc if he can get them for a 1000. Even so I could not build a container as rugged as these things are built. I think there would be a market for someone that comes up with an easy way to ventilate them.
Anyway nice job.

Did you haave to prime the metal??