Taking delivery of a 20ft container on Tuesday, was wading thru all the RU-vid videos for footing ideas, found this one meets my budget and capabilities. Thanks Darron (BTW I'm in Tasmania, so this video traveled a long way).
After the truck unloads one end onto the RR tie, how do you get the other tie under the opposite side? The truck doesn't drive over the front RR tie to place the container on the back RR tie, right? So how did you do it? Should have made a video of the placement...that would have Kool to see.
The other video ends just before I placed some temporary RR tie "cribbing" under the container a few feet inboard of the end. Then, I built up a gravel base for the permanent RR tie that now supports across the end of the container. The gravel base had to be built up a foot or more to end up with a level container, because of the slight slope on the site.
A Waste of time watching someone who have no ideal that dirt holds moisture and will riot those wooden posts....DUDE!! YOU SHOULD OF USED GRAVEL OR CONCRETE BLOCKS.
For your information: 1) This is not "dirt", it is gravel, specifically red pumice ( a volcanic product). It is pure rock, in various sizes mixed together. It packs well, drains quickly, and lasts for ages. 2) This installation was in a High Desert area of northern California (VERY little annual rainfall). 3) The "wooden post" is a reused railroad crosstie. Crossties are very heavily chemically-preserved, and will last the better part of a century in some conditions.
I prefer real buildings over a terrible looking hunk of rusting shit. Go ahead and buy/live in all the shipping containers you want. My opinion must have hurt your feelings.
How precious. Thank you for your useful contribution. He's in the country. There's no reason to care how it looks. No fucking neighbors is the point of rural living.
A 640 acre property like this (one square mile) lends itself to leniency in the aesthetic department, I should think. This is hardly the worst looking structure in the Valley. If you can offer a suggestion that is as cheap, secure, versatile, easily and rapidly placed, and then just as easily moved, I would like to hear about it, sincerely.
Actually, I, too prefer real buildings over "terrible looking hunks of rusting shit." Given my very limited finances, though, containers fit the bill for temporary buildings. My "real" (WWII-vintage wood) house in northern Nevada needs a LOT of work, compared to dropping a steel box next to it for storage. The house WAS cheaper than the container next to it ($575 for a 520 square foot house on .66 acres, complete with a geothermal well and gold ore onsite).
You must be a warehouse dweller, you know, someone who lives in a human warehouse also known as a city where they make everything look so pretty to impress their neighbors than they don't even know and they have planning and zoning people that are there to tell them what to do and how to do it on their own property. I prefer freedom and not living to please everyone else.
