What’s in your steel container?
Posted: November 18th, 2009 | Author: Super Cubes | Filed under: Buy or rent | 7 Comments »
From datacenters to farm storage to storm cellars
Whether it’s food and hunting supplies in a little retreat in the woods or pigs in a farm shelter, there are some interesting things showing up in steel shipping containers. Here are a few more examples of how people are using their containers:
- Microsoft’s Cloud Computer Data Center
- Cabin
- Modern root cellar; the container is buried in a hill and holds veggies and a plow.
- 8 minis (yes 8 cars, sans wheels, in a 40′ container)
- Burn building used by a fire department to train firefighters.
- Car port; two shipping containers set up for storage with a roof between the two. Talk about storage space!
- Warehouse space.
- Sides of a barn; containers provide lockable storage areas.
- Large barn.
- a home bar (see Gail & Paul’s Barnacle Bar)
- a portable store
- ATV and other toy storage.
- Storm cellar; with survival supplies.
- Repair shop.
- Stuff I can’t identify.
- Tools and garden stuff
- Employees, guests, normal folk
- Minnesota brothers
- Shopkeepers
- Traveling art
- a cafe
- Workshops, labs
Before you purchase your own steel shipping container to use for your own creative purposes, be sure to check your local codes. A few communities have special requirements if the containers are going to be buried, hold food, or house humans.
Everyone has storage problems. Shipping containers probably won’t help with all those shoes cluttering your closets. You can’t store you baby sister until she grows up either. But you could store you old car until it’s old enough to qualify as a collectible instead of junk.
What’s in your storage container?
What would you like to see in your container?
Do you think Santa has 40′ steel containers on each continent to keep toys safe for Christmas?
I’d like to go to Costco or Sam’s Club, buy all the tissues and toilet paper I could carry, all the hygiene products I could lift, and store them in the back yard. Then I’d never have to run to Target again (and someone spend an extra $50 on other junk I didn’t need.)
I’d add a couple of windows and host a Scout troop inside. Then I’d call them out when I needed the weeds pulled, the windows washed, or the walk shoveled.
I LOVE it! Although The Saner Container does not condone holding small children captive.
I need a better party room where I can play my drums. So I’d add some sound proofing and insulation to one and some electrical wiring. Then I’d add a ‘frig and a pizza oven. I’d let my friends paint graffiti on the walls inside and we’d all rock out.
“TJ and the Container Band”
You forgot fireworks storage. Most ISO containers have a 30 minute fire rating, and they’re easily secured, and they’re water proof. which makes them ideal for fireworks.
So very, very true! Check with your local and state rules, but usually the only thing extra that you need to add to the container to make it 100% compliant is a lockbox or two, which are super-easy to add on!!
Here’s a great one!! Storing renewable energy! http://www.reuters.com/article/mnEnergy/idUS159738478620091120
“Over the next two years SustainX will try and develop a way to cram 4 megawatt-hours worth of stored energy into each 40-foot long container and to reduce the energy that it currently takes to compress and release air by about 70%.”
Not only are containers easy to acquire, they are a repurposed material AND portable! What a great way to use containers!
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