Pre-built Metal Garden Shed

[reynoldston]

I think it was on "Farm Show" site where I saw in their archives where some farmer took some of those Chinese shipping crates and stacked two side by side with a gap big enough to drive a tractor in and built a shed roof over top of them. Made quite a barn or shed! They say you can stack them up like leggos. I think I'll stay on the ground level if I get one of them.

I don't know what Chinese shipping crates look like, but in my mine I don't think I would want one sitting in my yard. Then on top of that I am also thinking about town building permits or codes. Also where I live a farmer can get away with different building codes then the home owner can.

 

[Carscw]

I don't know what Chinese shipping crates look like, but in my mine I don't think I would want one sitting in my yard. Then on top of that I am also thinking about town building permits or codes. Also where I live a farmer can get away with different building codes then the home owner can.

When they move the crates on a ship they stack them 6 high.
There is no way 2 foot of wet snow would hurt one. I have seen people put cars on the top

 

[reynoldston]

When they move the crates on a ship they stack them 6 high.
There is no way 2 foot of wet snow would hurt one. I have seen people put cars on the top

When I am talking about snow load its the cheap metal building that don't hold up. But if you live where you don't get deep snow it makes for a nice cheap building. As far as the shipping crates I don't have any idea what they even look like. I am picturing a big ugly crate that I wouldn't want in my yard and if you live in a town with building codes the town may well say something about it. Now that would really be the frosting on the cake is to have a car setting on top of the crate in your yard, not mine.

 

[midnite rider]

The shipping crates being referred to are also called shipping containers and ISO containers. The containers have standardized dimensions and are quite strong as they can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another such as container ships, rail transport flatcars, and semi-trailer trucks without being opened. As of 2009, approximately 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is moved by containers stacked on transport ships; 26% of all container transhipment is carried out in China. Many are used also for storage, temporary housing and office space. Below are some examples.

 

[Carscw]

This is what they look like but most are primer red

 

[reynoldston]

Nothing that I pictured in my mine. I was thinking a big ugly wooden box. I just never seen them for sale. Wouldn't they just use them over and over again and not sell them? If they are for sale just where would they sell them. Also if they are selling them I can't see them being cheap to buy. Then once you buy one it would have to be transported, loaded, and unloaded. That being the case wouldn't it be cheaper, easier and look better to put up a wooden building the same size? Now I am thinking the average home owner who would have to hire this work done not someone with large equipment to handle one of these boxes. This thread started out buying a cheap metal building which I have seen costing 2 to 3 hundred dollars so just how would one of these boxes compare in cost and looks.

 

[Carscw]

Nothing that I pictured in my mine. I was thinking a big ugly wooden box. I just never seen them for sale. Wouldn't they just use them over and over again and not sell them? If they are for sale just where would they sell them. Also if they are selling them I can't see them being cheap to buy. Then once you buy one it would have to be transported, loaded, and unloaded. That being the case wouldn't it be cheaper, easier and look better to put up a wooden building the same size? Now I am thinking the average home owner who would have to hire this work done not someone with large equipment to handle one of these boxes. This thread started out buying a cheap metal building which I have seen costing 2 to 3 hundred dollars so just how would one of these boxes compare in cost and looks.

What people do is just have them dropped off with a rollback and use them as a shop or storage. I know a guy attached one to his shop and uses it as a engine build room.

They can only use them for shipping for so many years then they auction them off. You can get a 40 foot one for around 3 grand.

 

[LawnBoy97]

What people do is just have them dropped off with a rollback and use them as a shop or storage. I know a guy attached one to his shop and uses it as a engine build room.

They can only use them for shipping for so many years then they auction them off. You can get a 40 foot one for around 3 grand.

Now that would be cool. I need a shed so badly. I just had a close call when I was trying to get to a mower in the back of my garage. I just moved one thing and BOOM! BAM! CRASH! There goes lawn mower bags, my neighbors miter saw, and a ton of other junk. I could use one of those shipping containers, maybe five, for all of my junk.

 

[reynoldston]

What people do is just have them dropped off with a rollback and use them as a shop or storage. I know a guy attached one to his shop and uses it as a engine build room.

They can only use them for shipping for so many years then they auction them off. You can get a 40 foot one for around 3 grand.

Not a bad price for a 40 foot building, Has anybody run into town building code problems?

 

[Carscw]

Not a bad price for a 40 foot building, Has anybody run into town building code problems?

I live out in the country we really don't have any building codes so don't know how it would go over in a town or city.

If I lived in town or city limits I would find out before I had one dropped in my yard and maybe talk to my neighbors