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.
Jimboomba, QLD
Shipping containers Jimboomba
Nobody out this way is short of space, which is exactly why acreage deliveries look simple on paper and occasionally are not. There is no body corporate, no parked Corolla in the one spot the truck needs, and room to swing a rigid vehicle around twice. What there is instead is a private grid nobody can vouch for, four hundred metres of gravel that behaves entirely differently after rain, and a gate that measures narrower than it looks from the ute.
- Delivered from
- Our Cornubia yard, out through Logan and down the Mount Lindesay Highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2-4 business days; a wet week moves an unsealed-driveway drop rather than cancelling it
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for most acreage placements; crane truck where the gate, the grid or the turning room says otherwise
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.
What is worth knowing about this place, up front.
The work they do around here
Around Jimboomba we deliver containers for hay, chaff and pellets kept dry and away from vermin, tack, rugs and float gear stored properly instead of in a shed with a hole in the roof, side-by-sides, slashers and ride-ons locked up out of the weather, fencing wire, posts and strainers in one place rather than four, irrigation fittings and pump gear for the turf and produce blocks on the Logan River flats at North Maclean and Stockleigh, and tools and materials for owner-builders working a block where the house is still two years off.
What the driver needs from the site
Grids come first, because they are the item most often forgotten and the one most likely to finish a delivery badly. Twenty-odd tonne of truck and container concentrates through two axles, and a great many private grids on the rural-residential blocks around Jimboomba, Cedar Grove and Woodhill were welded up by a previous owner from whatever rail was lying around the shed, with a ute and a float in mind. No plate, no rating, and generally nobody left on the place who remembers. Where a grid cannot be vouched for, there are three ways around it: come in through a side gate instead, land the container on solid ground close to the road so it can be walked in with a tractor at your convenience, or send a machine that can stand outside the grid and reach past it. All three of those work. Discovering the answer halfway across does not. Driveways are the next item. Six hundred metres of crushed rock with a crown on it and drains cut down both sides is a pleasant run through spring. Give it a week of rain and the crown turns greasy, the edges go soft, and a wheel that wanders off the centre line ends up in a drain and stops there. Long approaches also need a genuine turnaround at the house end, since a tilt-tray must be square to the ground before it can unload and nobody enjoys reversing that far in fading light. Then the property itself: gateways that measure up tighter than they appear, a service line to the pump shed strung at precisely the height a raised bed wants to occupy, ironbark limbs at four metres, and reactive clay that behaves like concrete in spring and like pudding in February. On the horse blocks this district is full of, there is also the plain fact that a steel box grinding down a steel bed is not a noise most horses have encountered.
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 Jimboomba
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.
Jimboomba
Nobody knows what the grid is rated to
Three bits of infrastructure settle most deliveries around here, and every one of them can be checked before you place an order. Start with the grid, where the truthful answer from most owners is that they have never known what it carries. That is fine, provided it gets said. The gateway is next. Measure across the opening at its tightest point rather than post to post, because the bed of the truck is wider than the container and a post already clipped once by a float will not survive being clipped by twenty tonne. Culverts are the third. Thirty-year-old pipe under a fill crossing, grass sprouting from the end of it and a dip forming in the surface above, is not something anyone wants to prove out with a loaded vehicle.
None of that rules out a delivery. It decides which vehicle turns up. Where the crossings or the approach are the sticking point, the usual solution is to land the unit on solid ground within reach of the road and leave you to walk it in with a tractor and chains whenever it suits, or to send a machine that can stand on firm going and reach past the soft part. The situation being avoided is a vehicle committed to an approach it has no way of backing out of, which turns twenty minutes of work into most of an afternoon and leaves a trench through your paddock as a souvenir.
On the ground
Four hundred metres of gravel, and what rain does to it
Unsealed driveways are the norm out here and most of them are perfectly good. What changes them is water. A formed-earth or gravel surface that has recently been graded has no bind in it at all and will not hold a loaded truck until traffic and a bit of weather have worked it. A crowned drive after a storm sheds water to the edges, which is exactly where the soft ground is, so a truck that comes off the centre line finds the table drain. Add any grade at all and a loaded vehicle loses traction long before an empty one would.
Rural bookings through the wet months therefore carry some deliberate give in them, and a call moving your date back two days beats committing a vehicle to an approach that has turned greasy. A bogged truck has no winners in it. You stand there watching it cut a trench and wondering who is paying for the tractor, and we have a driver and a vehicle tied up for the rest of the day. Your local knowledge is worth a lot here. You know whether your drive holds up or turns, which section goes first, and whether there is a hardstand near the shed or by the road that stays solid regardless. Tell us that at the booking and we will plan the run around it instead of guessing.
Worth knowing
Horses, dogs and gates that have to stay shut
This is horse country, and on an equestrian property the animals matter as much as the ground does. Unloading is a noisy business: hydraulics under load, chains running out, and a steel box grinding its way down a steel bed. Stock in a paddock the truck has to drive past, or horses standing in yards near where the container is going, want to be shifted before the vehicle arrives rather than after it is halfway down an approach with nowhere to turn around. Dogs take considerably more interest in a truck than is good for them. Say at the booking what animals are on the place, whether gates have to be closed behind us, and whether there is a preferred route in that keeps a truck clear of the arena or the laneway. It costs nothing to organise and it decides whether the whole thing takes a quiet twenty minutes or ruins the afternoon for everybody, horses included.
What delivery to Jimboomba 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 places on this run
We also deliver to Cedar Grove, Munruben, Flagstone, North Maclean, Greenbank and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Jimboomba
Is the grid on my driveway going to hold your truck?
The grid decides that, and out here most of them carry no plate and no paperwork at all. A truck under a loaded container puts far more through the rails than the ute and float it was probably welded up for. If yours was engineered and rated, say so. If nobody knows, say that instead, and the options become coming in through a side gate, landing the unit on solid ground near the road for you to walk in with the tractor, or sending a machine that reaches past the grid altogether. Any of those is better than rails folding mid-crossing.
Can you deliver down a long unsealed driveway?
Regularly, and through the dry months most are no trouble at all. The things that stop us are a surface gone slick after rain, cut drains a wheel can drop into, culverts of unknown condition, a recently graded surface that has not bound up yet, and no turnaround at the house end big enough for the vehicle. A tilt-tray has to sit square to unload, and it should not be backing several hundred metres out to the road. Photograph the drive from the gateway and the intended position from a few paces away, send both, and it can be planned properly.
What size container suits an acreage block out here?
Room is seldom the limiting factor, so it comes back to what is going inside and what your approach will take. A 20ft swallows feed, tack, fencing gear and a bench with space left over, and it is much easier to get through a gateway and down a drive. A 40ft gets you length enough for machinery and suits a working property with a decent run in off the road. Where the approach is awkward but the volume is needed, a pair of 20ft units stood a few metres apart with a roof spanning the gap is a popular and very practical arrangement out this way.
How do I stop it going out of square on clay ground?
Get it onto pads the day it lands. Clay through this district swells as it takes up water over a wet summer and shrinks back hard once the dry sets in, and it never does either evenly across a paddock. A unit sitting on bare soil tracks that movement one casting at a time and never recovers. Hardwood sleepers or concrete pads under the four castings, dug in true and checked corner to corner, is the entire solution. Keep the doors at the top of any slope, the grass down, the underside clear, and it will still open cleanly in fifteen years.
Get a price
Start with the address and the access
We deliver to Jimboomba 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