Air cargo storage shed

This air cargo container has been in my way for 6 years. It wasn't much use for storing stuff in because there is no support under the 1/4" thick aluminum floor.
Also I have part of a refinery set up to convert used motor oil into diesel or to make bio diesel out of vegetable oil but never had a good place to put it all together. the unit will require about 60 sq foot of floor space. So this morning while moving the cargo container out of my way for the umpteenth time in 6 years it suddenly went DING DING in my mind why not kill several birds at the same time
I leveled of an area at the end of some existing sheds about 200 feet from the house by back filling with clay sand then to get rid of a bunch of useless old cross ties no longer suitable for fence posts from a couple of old fences I tore down yesterday.
The cross ties were used to make a matt for the air cargo box
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Now I have an excuse to set up my refinery in its own fully self contained critter resistant building far enough away from the house or the shop and down wind most of the year so we won't have to put up with the associated smell of cooking off the diesel
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I have a random junk collection, but it pales next to yours, Frank!

How much to those containers cost? It had never occurred to me that they'd make great sheds.

Neil

Neil I have no idea what they would sell for this one was bought at an auction where no one had any idea what the potential of one could be I think I got it for a hundred bucks, but would have gladly paid 3 times that.
The floor is 1 piece smoot 1/4" thick aluminum. Sitting on the cross ties I figure it will be more than suitable for what I intend to do with it since the refinery system will weight about 800 lbs once I refurbish and up grade from what I got with the 600 gallons of oil. The guy had about the crudest set ups I have ever seen undersized centrifuge dodgy filtration and inadequate heating leaky pumps and a very labor intensive way of processing. He could only achieve a dark brown diesel like fuel and in no way was able to make bio diesel out of used vegetable oils since there was no provision for a blending step.
It might take me another year to put together a system I will be comfortable with to run the diesel in a later model pickup but what he had would run in an older farm tractor just fine or my 90's era pickups

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Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

"random junk collection"

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That was probably a typo. I'm sure you meant "parts inventory"! LOL!

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Originally Posted by JoeVanGeaux

That was probably a typo. I'm sure you meant "parts inventory"! LOL!

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Hey one man's junk is another man's treasures.
Me, I have a lot of junky treasures, or is it treasured junk? I can never decide which.

Treasured junk is the stuff you find a use or need for one week after disposing of it :-)

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Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

Treasured junk is the stuff you find a use or need for one week after disposing of it :-)

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I used to build small commercial kitchens, and I recall one time whilst doing one that the guy said he could use an old, but never used hand basin that I had, I said sure, it's yours, well he put it out in the back yard of the shop and left it there for use in due course. I'd had it stored for about 2 years, he had it for about 1 year. The day before I was due to fit it he went to the local hardware to buy taps, but because he got there at 3 minutes to closing time they said come back in the morning. That night, someone stole it.

Does anyone have any idea what a shipping container would cost ? I would like to put one on my property if I could get the proper permit...sooo much stuff, and not enough room.

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Originally Posted by funforall 69

Does anyone have any idea what a shipping container would cost ? I would like to put one on my property if I could get the proper permit...sooo much stuff, and not enough room.

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A couple of questions: - where do you hail from, and are you talking about air freight containers or sea freight containers?

Here in N. California they used to run about $1800-$2400 for 20' units. Not sure about ther 40' units because I never priced them. I say used to because covid got everything all balled up. Shipping dropped off due to reduced demand and the Chinese stopped making new ones so prices went way up. I eventually settled on a single use 20' unit for $5,000, i.e., one that made only one trip from China before being sold to me. Paint is good, doors open easily, and all I needed to do was slap on a padlock. It will eventually become my new shop.You'll find better prices buying from individuals but then you'll have to figure out how to transport it. I chose the 20' unit because when I move I can simply call my local towing service and they can winch it onto their flatbed.