Backhoe Outside Storage

[Geotech]

The shipping containers are 8 ft wide outside dimension, so a little better than 7'6" inside, You can get a standard or high-cube and those are 8 ft or 9 ft tall, exterior dimension. I'm planning on getting a Kioit CK3510 or something of that ilk. If I were to build a shed, I'd make it deep enough to pull in with grapple or bucket and rotary cutter all connected. For my set up, I would build it 24 ft deep if not doing the shipping container. 4 ft and 8 ft lengths reduce material waste in building.

 

[Industrial Toys]

If I ever got another shipping container, it would be an insulated reefer style. A friend cut a 40 in half and insulated it. Put a man door in the end and the whole end opens hinged at the top, hydraulically! Pretty slick, He said the insulating was a GIANT PITA as nothing worked with standard building material.

 

[Geotech]

I'll be insulating my cabin with this product specifically designed for shipping containers: Insulation Panels for Shipping Containers | InSoFast

Much cheaper and more practical than an insulated reefer. I don't plan to insulate tractor storage, though.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That would be good to know. Having said that, this is Canada, where anything out of the pedestrian thing, is expensive, hard to get and sometimes just not worth it in the end. I'm guessing, that an insulated container, here already would be the better buy. Plus, I can buy it with "increasingly worthless" canadian currency.

 

[AVIVIII]

When I built my pole barn, I made it whatever size I needed to fit the used trusses I found on craigslist. 24x16 building cost less than $2500 (not including dirt).

 

[Industrial Toys]

Ah! Here you probably couldn't use them without the engineering drawings.

 

[AVIVIII]

They tried to give me that crap, but around here anything goes for ag buildings.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Nor can you drag some cedar out of the swamp without being stamped.

MAYBE they have a point. In the 80s a pole barn was built on the neighbors place.

Now my friend and neighbor wants to have a poured floor and realizes many of the posts have rotted off. What an expensive sheit show it's turning into!

 

[Lelandwelds]

If I ever got another shipping container, it would be an insulated reefer style. A friend cut a 40 in half and insulated it. Put a man door in the end and the whole end opens hinged at the top, hydraulically! Pretty slick, He said the insulating was a GIANT PITA as nothing worked with standard building material.

A vertical clam shell door? I must have read that wrong! Hydraulic as in with a pump? Can you visit your friend and snap a couple of shots? Please. You can crop out any valuable or embarrassing stuff. I thought about cutting two 40 HC @ 30 ft and using the pieces for other storage.

My idea is to space two 40 ft HC thirty ft apart and put a roof over and between them. To insulate, I plan on attaching some PT 2 X 4 for furring for siding of some sort. I want to foam on the exterior and protect it from sunlight.

The interior will get a version of French cleat with flat bar welded horizontally. Even 1/8 x 1" would be incredibly strong spanning just 8".

 

[Geotech]

If you're going to start attaching a bunch of crap to the container, you might as well build in traditional fashion. It is easier and cheaper than modifying containers. The only reason I am using a container for my cabin is because it is a little more secure. But I ordered a container that allows me to build a wall behind the doors so I will not be fabricating holes into the box either. See pic.