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Post by woodyz on Jun 3, 2012 8:24:30 GMT -7
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Post by loshali on Jun 3, 2012 9:12:24 GMT -7
i've been studying up a LOT on shipping container housing that I could live in while building the house, then using that as a workshop or weaving studio. Taking out walls can weaken the structure, but there's lots of ways to cut out only partial walls.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 3:56:55 GMT -7
Interesting...I will see if I can find anything...maybe others can look as well?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 4:27:23 GMT -7
Now thats sharp!!! I like this one too.
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Post by offtrail on Jun 15, 2012 8:01:30 GMT -7
I think it's a great idea with many possibility. If bugging out finding one of these would be a great find. If living in one of these would it be wise to ground it in case of a lightning strike.
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Post by lonewufcry on Jun 15, 2012 8:25:49 GMT -7
I have to say its pretty cool
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Post by garret on Jun 15, 2012 12:23:21 GMT -7
i like that modpod, very cool idea
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Post by orly152 on Jun 15, 2012 14:32:55 GMT -7
Woodyz, I've read somewhere that you can puchase the containers for about $ 10,000 give or take a few, and then you would have to do the work inside as far as the installations etc. I also found a place on the web that makes them with the comodeties for about $ 60,000. You can attach other containerns to the main one....for example, one conatiner can be just for storage, another for entertainment, and another for sleeping quarters. I've seen lots of great set-ups regarding these underground containers. If you have the means to invest then i suggest you do it before it's too late. Here is one of those sites www.deepearthbunker.com/survival-pods.html
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Post by woodyz on Oct 20, 2012 18:45:09 GMT -7
Crazy price. I can buy storage containers for $800. Then re-enforce, put in appliances, bought out of salvaged mobile/motor homes for another $500. Maybe I should start building some and sell them. Or I could dig some adequate holes into the side of a hill, re-enforce the hole, run water, electric and septic lines. Then when SHTF go out and pick up some abandon motor homes (since I will have fuel and they won't) and bring them back and bury them In my re-enforced holes. All the comforts of home, right in my backyard ;D
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Post by Cwi555 on Oct 20, 2012 18:49:04 GMT -7
Crazy price. I can buy storage containers for $800. Then re-enforce, put in appliances, bought out of salvaged mobile/motor homes for another $500. Maybe I should start building some and sell them. Or I could dig some adequate holes into the side of a hill, re-enforce the hole, run water, electric and septic lines. Then when SHTF go out and pick up some abandon motor homes (since I will have fuel and they won't) and bring them back and bury them In my re-enforced holes. All the comforts of home, right in my backyard ;D I would be very interested in knowing where I could get one for 800 bucks. Add a grand shipping, and it would still be cheaper than the sale price around here.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2012 19:55:23 GMT -7
I got a quote from a place in St. Louis that will deliver them, unload and level up on my site here for $1800 for the 40' Long, 8' wide, 8' tall with a side door, back doors, 2 roof hatches, reinforced sides and roof, painted and thats for NEW ones, not refinished ones!
Jim was talking about getting me a couple and burying them instead of digging and building the root cellar I want. He said with the cost of concrete, the containers would be cheaper.
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Post by blacksmith on Oct 20, 2012 23:19:49 GMT -7
wow that is a deal
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Post by woodyz on Oct 21, 2012 14:47:44 GMT -7
I would be very interested in knowing where I could get one for 800 bucks. Add a grand shipping, and it would still be cheaper than the sale price around here. Read more: survivalbunker.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=vehicles&action=display&thread=711#ixzz29yD7Gqv6CWI555 I don't know exactly where you are located, but I suspect if you would go to Chattanooga and find a salvage dealer for the river traffic you could find what you need for a good price. They have strict regulation on their use of ones with any damage. May need some repairs, but I hear you are handy at welding, The shipping is where they get you. We get ours from a Charleston Salvage Co. They want $800. and $1000 to deliver, just like everyone else. So the trick is to self haul. I'm sure you have access to a 20' flatbed trailer. We jack up one end so we can drive the trailer under the end. Then we use 4" heavy duty pipe as rollers and pull it right onto the trailer with a wench. Jack it up a little on the trailer to take out the two rollers, tie it down and go home. Depending on where we want it we chain the back to a tree, layout a couple of pipe rollers and drive off, it stays, then we jack and block. If where we want it doesn't have a big tree handy, we pull it off the trailer with a 4x4 truck. If you use a pipe roller under one end you can push it with a 4x4. It isn't hard to get on or off because the skids make it slide good and they all have many many re-enforce lifting and pulling eyes. Empty they only weigh about 8K, maybe 10k. So for $800. and an afternoon of work we get them. So you get a treated wooden floor, 8x20 8 foot high storage building with water tight doors. Maybe you have to do some miner repair to the sheet metal, floor, or a hinge. If I have sheet metal damage I cut a sheet metal panel slightly bigger, rivet or spot weld it on and fiberglass the edges. Just remember the door orientation before you load it so the door comes off where you want it. Dink I don't know exactly where you are but KC, St Louis, Paducah, Muskogee, Little Rock, Memphis and Columbia should have a source. Anywhere they push barges up and down the Mississippi, AK, MO, or Ohio river will have damaged ones. And any sea port like NO, or Charleston. The thing is once they are red flagged and can't be used they collect insurance on them, so anything they sell them for as salvage is profit.
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Post by woodyz on Oct 25, 2012 11:45:39 GMT -7
Re reading and didn't want to mis-lead anyone. The ones we got for $800 are the 8x8x20, not the 40. We couldn't haul a 40'. I look at the empty weight and they are 4800#, less than most cars.
Also I checked the trailer we had used since we have several and I don't want to mis-lead anyone on that. It is a 20' car hauler. It maybe a little stouter (sp) than a flatbed and it has a bigger wench on the front.
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Post by alex on Oct 25, 2012 18:20:52 GMT -7
I picked up a book a few weeks back on Micro cabins and they had some simple plans using the 40' shipping containers and basic construction. The cabins were spacious and looked like some good ideas. I would love to get a 28'-32' camper and let my house go back...I could do the same thing with a 40' container only it would not be mobile.
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