10ft Shipping Containers
Side access is pinched, the setback leaves nothing to manoeuvre in, or all that is needed is a lockable spot for the mower, an air compressor and a wall of hand tools.
Beaudesert, QLD
Shipping containers Beaudesert
Beaudesert town is a simple delivery and always has been. The interesting part starts once you turn off the highway, out toward Kooralbyn, Rathdowney, Christmas Creek, Laravale and the roads running up under Mount Barney, where a low-level causeway that was bone dry yesterday decides whether a truck comes today. Rain in the ranges puts water over crossings on properties where nobody saw a drop, and it can sit there for a day or two afterwards. Plan for that and it is easy country to deliver into.
- Delivered from
- Our Cornubia yard, run out along the Mount Lindesay Highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2-4 business days, and we watch the crossings through the wet
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray in 10ft and 20ft; crane truck wherever the approach or the yard leaves no room to sit square
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
The short version, before the detail.
What people here put in them
Around Beaudesert we deliver containers for fodder and baled hay held dry right through a wet summer, wire, posts and strainers locked away in one spot rather than four, handling gear, drenches and vet supplies kept out of the weather, chemicals and drums secured well away from the house, tools and machinery parts on places where the shed filled up years back, linen, furniture and equipment for the farm-stay and wedding venues dotted through the Scenic Rim, and dry storage while a shed or homestead is rebuilt after a storm has been through.
What has to be right before the truck books
What shapes deliveries out here more than anything else is the way water sits across roads. Tributaries of the Logan and the Albert thread through these properties, and where they meet a road it is usually a low concrete causeway rather than a bridge. Those come up within a couple of hours of a downpour in the ranges, frequently while it is still perfectly dry at your house, and they take their time going back down. Water over a causeway is not something a laden vehicle attempts, and that is physics rather than an excuse. Unsealed approaches are the second consideration. The back roads toward Christmas Creek, Innisplain, Palen Creek and behind Kooralbyn carry long gravel and formed-earth stretches that are superb in dry weather and treacherous within an hour of a storm, worst of all where a grader has been over them recently and nothing has worked the surface back together. Put a climb and a bit of side-slope under a laden vehicle and grip disappears far sooner than it would on an empty one. Ground on the properties themselves falls into two camps. The creek and river flats are alluvial, excellent when dry and slippery when not. Higher up you find basalt, loose scree and rock shelf beneath a shallow topsoil, which is about as solid as ground gets and almost never sits flat. Either way the unit belongs on pads instead of straight onto dirt. After that come the everyday farm details capable of halting a truck at the boundary: an opening that measures tighter than it looks, an unrated grid, cattle wandering the road or filling a laneway, a low span of wire to the pump shed, and a turning area at the far end big enough for the vehicle to square up before it unloads.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Beaudesert
Priced with delivery to your address - one call, one number.
20ft Shipping Containers
There is about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground for it to sit on, and you would rather not discover in half a year that the bigger box was the answer.
40ft Shipping Containers
You have the space, the approach is genuinely open, and the aim is the largest amount of storage per dollar spent that anybody sells.
Beaudesert
The causeway decides the date
A phone call pushing your delivery back two days beats sending a laden vehicle at a rising causeway or down an approach that has turned to grease. That is not timidity. A truck caught on a causeway approach is a serious situation, and one buried on your property means a churned trench through the paddock, somebody's tractor, a disagreement over who wears the cost, and a driver and vehicle written off for the day. Rural bookings through the storm season carry deliberate slack for that reason, and you will get a call explaining the situation rather than an afternoon spent at the window watching for a vehicle that was never going to arrive.
Nothing available to us matches what you already know about your own approach. You know which crossing tips over first, how many hours it takes to fall away, and whether the gravel on your road firms up or turns to soup. Pass that on when the booking is made. Where there is a solid alternative, a sealed access through a neighbour, a hardstand near the boundary, a patch beside the shed that stays firm no matter what has fallen, it often decides whether the container arrives this week or next. Worth flagging too if the grader has recently been along your road, since a fresh surface has no cohesion in it at all and will not hold a laden vehicle until traffic and weather have worked it back together.
On the ground
Working properties, stock and where the truck turns
On a property being actively run, the delivery bends around the operation rather than the reverse. Gates that must be closed behind the truck. Cattle to be cleared from a laneway before anything drives down it. A grid nobody can vouch for at twenty tonne. A route in that steers well clear of the yards during weaning. Every one of those is straightforward when it comes up at booking time and every one of them is a headache once the truck is idling at your boundary. Worth knowing as well that the container can simply be set down on solid ground near the road, leaving you to walk it in with the tractor and chains whenever it suits. On a good many places around here that is the tidiest way to handle it and it spares everyone an ugly reverse.
Worth knowing
Setting one down on a slope
Hardly any ground in this district is flat, and a container has no need for flat ground. All it asks is that its four corners finish at one height. Across a slope, that means packing the downhill side up with stacked hardwood or pads set into the fall, not carving the uphill side away. Cutting in produces a shelf that collects run-off and holds it against the bottom rail. People get that the wrong way round constantly, and it separates a unit whose underside is still dry in twenty years from one sitting in a wet channel after every storm.
Set up correctly, the load runs through the castings exactly as the engineers intended, the frame holds true, and the doors swing sweetly for decades. Set up badly, the frame twists, the doors jam, and putting it right is a great deal more work than doing it properly would have been. Have the doors at the uphill end so gravity is on your side. Leave the underside open so air and water keep moving instead of pooling. Under trees, run a broom over the roof twice a year, because sodden leaf litter pressed against a panel does more harm than any amount of weather. That is the complete list of maintenance.
What delivery to Beaudesert costs
Delivery is worked out per address and quoted with the container. Access moves it more than distance does, which is why there is no published figure.
We will ask about the ground, the gate and the overheads before we ask about your budget. That order saves people money.
Other areas we deliver to
We also deliver to Kooralbyn, Rathdowney, Canungra, Boonah, Gleneagle and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Beaudesert
There is a causeway on the way into my place. Is that an issue?
Yes, so long as the causeway is clear and the ground each side of it is firm. Plenty of the crossings toward Christmas Creek, Laravale, Innisplain and out Rathdowney way rise within hours of rain up in the ranges and hold for a day or so afterwards, and no laden vehicle drives into water over a causeway. List the crossings on your route when you book and describe how they normally behave, and the run gets scheduled to suit. Failing that, the container can go down on solid ground near the road for you to bring in with the tractor later.
How much does wet weather affect delivery around Beaudesert?
Inside the town limits, hardly at all. Once you are onto gravel roads and long private approaches it matters enormously, since formed earth or a freshly graded surface turns slippery within the hour once a storm crosses, and grip goes out of a laden vehicle long before it goes out of an empty one. Expect a call moving the date rather than a truck sunk on your place. Rural runs through summer are planned with that flexibility built in from the start, and you get told what is happening instead of being left to guess.
Is a container any good for storing hay and feed out here?
It is one of the main reasons people around here buy one. It locks, birds and vermin stay outside, and cargo-worthy stock is inspected wind and watertight in the yard before dispatch, so feed that goes in dry comes out dry. Two habits make the difference. Stand it on pads, so air can move beneath it and the floor is not resting on damp ground. Then swing the doors open on a fine day every so often, letting any condensation clear instead of hanging around through a humid week. Have a look at the grades page before choosing.
How far out from Beaudesert will you deliver?
Right across the district. Kooralbyn, Rathdowney, Laravale, Gleneagle, Veresdale, Tamrookum, Christmas Creek, Innisplain and over toward Boonah and Canungra are all regular runs from our Cornubia yard along the Mount Lindesay Highway. The distance is rarely the problem out here, the last kilometre is. Give us the address plus a description of the approach, the crossings and what the turning space at the far end looks like, and the vehicle gets picked to suit before a quote is put together.
Get a price
Talk it through with someone who has done it
We deliver to Beaudesert and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm