Shipping containers are great! We bought one about 10 years ago for a
move of about 40 miles figuring that we would sell it when we got to our
destination. WRONG! We still have it and use it as a storage unit. All
off-season stuff goes in it. Works great!
You might want to consider installing wood shelves/bins on each side to
hold some of the stuff, then just leave it in the container when you get
where you are going. Fill the rest of the container with stuff that will
come out.
If you need to build yourself a shop when you get moved, consider this.
Buy 2 shipping containers and when the time comes to build the shop,
have your slab poured to handle the size of the shop, plus twice the
width of a shipping container. Position the containers on opposite sides
of the slab and build a roof across them, giving you a new shop with
LOTS of storage. There is a local contractor with a shop like this that
I can get a picture of He even continued the roof out past the
containers so there is basically a pole barn on each end for storing
large equipment out of the weather. I've been thinking about building
one for myself to house my spare cars (read waiting for restoration) and
farm equipment. I have a 30'x40' shop already, so this would be mainly
for storage.
Peace,
Pat
Thusly spake Paul Mele:
> <<I'm looking for creative ideas on what kind of boxing/packing ideas you
> might have. So far I've considered plastic totes, 55 gallon drums,
> cardboard boxes, wood crates, etc.>>
>
> part of this equation: consider buying a 40 ft steel shipping container
> ($800-3000); you can keep it for storage once you've moved, or re sell it
> for close to what you paid for it...value depends on distance to shipping
> facility, since that's a common source for used ones.
> idea is similar to "PODS", but you do the work to buy/ keep/ sell.
> we did this for last move; much cheaper than hiring the moving company for
> all that stuff...the shipper of the container didn't care about the (huge)
> weight, whereas the regular "household" mover did.
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