Shipping container for tractor storage

[dragoneggs]

Protecting your tractor is indeed smart.

I use two containers.
One on the left side & one on the right.
Built a roof over the open span. Very simple & it works.

Boy I wish I had that much flat ground because that is exactly what I would do! Two 20ft'ers and I would be dancing. :cool2: Might even rent out one to the better half for her storage as long as I got the middle!

 

[newbury]

I see these advertised on CL all the time.. Some in the 3K range. My question is why so many and so cheap?
Are they not usable again ? ... 1 trip across the Atlantic and it's done ?

One trippers are designed to be built overseas, loaded with freight, then sold into the storage/rental business upon arrival in the western hemisphere. You'll note the door handles are set a comfortable waist height versus very low handles on cans used repeatedly for shipping. Those cans are loaded/unloaded while on special trailers so handles are placed where you can reach them from the ground.

Also consider the process. The containers are usually built and filled overseas, then sent to the US and emptied. The US doesn't manufacture a lot of stuff to ship overseas in shipping containers. We ship to China:

1. Soybeans: $15 billion
2. Civilian aircraft: $8.4 billion
3. Cotton: $3.4 billion
4. Copper materials: $3 billion
5. Passenger vehicles (small engines): $3 billion
6. Aluminum materials: $2.4 billion
7. Passenger vehicles (large engines): $2.2 billion
8. Electronic integrated circuits: $1.7 billion
9. Corn: $1.3 billion
10. Coal: $1.2 billion

what-america-exports-to-china/
I think very little of that is put in 40' shipping containers. So it is more cost effective to sell them here versus chipping them back.

 

[Psmalley01]

I have kept both of my tractors in a shipping container for the last 4 years. Keeps the mice out. The company I bought mine from delivered it. All I had to do was set some railroad ties prior to delivery. A lot of them leak so if youæ±*e able to see it before you buy you should be able to tell if leaks when you go inside.

 

[kjg26]

Psmalley. What tractors do you have and hpw tight is it in the container?

 

[Psmalley01]

I currently have a Massey 1742. There’s about a foot on each side and a couple feet of top clearance with the ROPS up. Of course, these containers are only so big so I know not all tractors will fit.

 

[bcp]

How about some Boeing containers?
Barcoola: Mukiteo WA shunting at Port of Everett with Boeing boxes GP38s in action





Bruce

 

[dragoneggs]

How about some Boeing containers?
Barcoola: Mukiteo WA shunting at Port of Everett with Boeing boxes GP38s in action



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Bruce

SeaCans come up often at Boeing's Online Auction website.

 

[bcp]

SeaCans come up often at Boeing's Online Auction website.

The oversize ones?

Bruce

 

[dragoneggs]

The oversize ones?

Bruce

No just the standard size... sorry for the confusion.

 

[Cavjock22]

40 high cube
storing a bota M6060