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.
Kingaroy, QLD
Shipping containers Kingaroy
The range comes first with Kingaroy. Whatever is going up there has to climb the D'Aguilar through Blackbutt, and a long rigid truck carrying a 40ft is a different vehicle on that road to one carrying a 20ft. After that it is the red soil and the fall of the country. Almost nothing in the South Burnett is flat. Blocks roll away from the house, driveways cut across a slope rather than running up it, and a container that is not sitting on four corners at the same height will tell you about it within a year.
- Delivered from
- our Cornubia yard, run north-west through Caboolture and over the Blackbutt Range on the D'Aguilar
- Typical lead time
- Usually 3–6 business days, scheduled around the range run and the weather
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft where there is a straight approach; crane truck for 40ft and for steep or terraced blocks
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.
First, the things that are specific to here.
The jobs they end up doing here
Around Kingaroy we deliver containers for peanut, grain and seed storage on the red soil country around Kumbia, Taabinga and Memerambi, hay and fodder kept dry and away from vermin through a wet summer, machinery parts and workshop gear on cattle and cropping blocks out toward Wooroolin and Wondai, secure storage for the vineyards and cellar doors through Moffatdale and Ficks Crossing, biosecurity-conscious storage sited outside the shed area on piggeries and poultry sheds, and lock-up storage on the lifestyle blocks and small acreage going in around Nanango and Taabinga.
What the delivery actually involves
Two things shape a South Burnett delivery: the road in, and the fall on the block. The D'Aguilar climb through Blackbutt is a real range road with tight sections, a decent grade and mature timber close to the carriageway. A tilt-tray carrying a 20ft climbs it every week without drama. A longer combination carrying a 40ft is a slower and more considered exercise, and on some approaches beyond the range it is genuinely the wrong answer. Where 40ft of length matters on a block with an awkward approach, two 20ft placed end to end usually gets you more usable space and a far simpler delivery day. The second half is the ground. South Burnett red soil is deep, it is beautiful country, and it is undulating almost everywhere. Driveways here tend to be long, unsealed, and cut across a slope with a table drain on the high side, which means a loaded truck is running with a camber on it rather than sitting flat. In the dry that is fine. After rain the red soil goes slick on the surface while staying firm underneath, and a truck that loses the crown of the drive slides toward the low side. Frost is worth mentioning too. Winter mornings up here get properly cold and a shaded section of an unsealed drive can still be greasy at ten in the morning when the rest of it has dried out. On the block itself we ask about turning space at the far end, gates measured at their narrowest point rather than at the posts, powerlines running to a pump or a shed, and whether the spot the container is going has any fall across it. Almost all of these blocks are deliverable. They just need the right truck picked before the day rather than on it.
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 Kingaroy
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.
Kingaroy
Over the range, and what size makes it
The honest advice for Kingaroy is to settle the size question before anything else. The run from Cornubia goes north through Caboolture and up the D'Aguilar over the Blackbutt Range, and while that road handles heavy vehicles all day every day, it is not the same job carrying six metres of container as it is carrying twelve. Once you are past the range and onto a private driveway with a slope, a crown and a bend in it, the difference becomes obvious very quickly. A 20ft on a tilt-tray will get to almost any block in the South Burnett. A 40ft needs a straight run at the placement spot of close to twenty metres, and a driveway wide enough for the truck to line up before it starts unloading.
That is not us being difficult about it. A truck that cannot make the turn at the top of a long drive has to reverse back down a slope with a table drain on one side, and that is the sort of afternoon nobody wants. Send a photo taken from the gate looking up the drive, one of the spot itself with a bit of the surroundings in frame, and tell us roughly how much fall there is across it. That is usually enough for us to say which truck is coming and whether the size you have in mind is the right one. If the drive climbs onto a bench or crosses a table drain partway up, mention it, because that is usually where a long bed grounds out rather than at the gate.
On the ground
Peanuts, hay and keeping the moisture out
Most of what goes into a container around Kingaroy has to stay dry, and dry here is not only about the roof. The South Burnett gets cold clear nights and warm days for a good part of the year, and that swing is what produces condensation inside a sealed steel box. Warm moist air gets in during the afternoon, the roof panel drops below dew point overnight, and the moisture ends up on the underside of the roof and then on whatever is stacked below it. People blame the container. It is usually the ventilation. It bites hardest in the shoulder seasons, when the days are still warm and the nights have already dropped into single figures, and it catches people who have shut something away over winter without opening the doors once.
The answer is a set of vents fitted before delivery, a bit of air movement under the floor by keeping the unit up on pads rather than flat on the soil, and not stacking hay or bagged product hard against the walls where air cannot circulate. Leave a hand's width off the wall line and a gap at the door end. If you are storing seed or anything you intend to plant, that gap is the difference between opening the doors in spring to what you put in and opening them to a problem. Tell us what is going in at the quote and we will set the unit up for it rather than sending a bare box. It costs very little to get right at the start and it is the whole difference between a good store and a wasted season.
Worth knowing
Blocks that fall away from the house
Ask anybody who has poured a slab in the South Burnett how much fall there is in country that reads as gently rolling from the road. A container handles that perfectly well provided somebody deals with it on the day it lands. The whole weight runs through the four corner castings, so those four points have to finish at a common height, and on a sloping site the way there is to pack the downhill corners up on stacked hardwood or bed pads into the fall. What you should not do is bench out the uphill side. It looks neater the afternoon the truck leaves and it hands you a channel along the top wall that funnels runoff down the length of the container for the next twenty years.
Point the doors uphill if the site gives you the choice, because a pair of doors that has to be hauled against the slope every time gets old inside a month. Knock the grass back around the base and keep it back. Vegetation packed against the bottom rail holds water on the steel for weeks at a stretch, and that does more damage over time than the rain ever does to a container living outdoors. Leave the underside open so air moves through and runoff gets away rather than ponding under the floor. Where the site allows it the levelling is part of the delivery, so mention the fall when you are getting a price and the sleepers travel with the unit.
What delivery to Kingaroy costs
Delivery is quoted with the container. It moves with the distance, the truck the site needs and how hard the last thirty metres are, so we price it per job rather than publish a figure that would be wrong for half the addresses here.
Describe the spot it has to land on and we will work backwards from there to the container and the truck.
Elsewhere in the district
We also deliver to Nanango, Wondai, Murgon, Blackbutt, Yarraman and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Kingaroy
Can you get a 40ft container to a block near Kingaroy?
Often, but the approach decides it rather than the container. A 40ft needs close to twenty metres of straight, firm run at the placement spot and a driveway the truck can line up in before it starts unloading, and it is a slower job over the Blackbutt Range. On a rolling South Burnett block with a long cross-slope drive, two 20ft placed end to end usually gives you more usable space and a much easier delivery. Send a photo from the gate looking up the drive and we will tell you honestly which way it should go.
How long does delivery to Kingaroy take?
The usual window is three to six business days. The container leaves our Cornubia yard south of Brisbane and runs north through Caboolture and over the D'Aguilar, so it is a scheduled trip rather than a next-day one. Crane bookings, vents or a lockbox being fitted, and wet weather on an unsealed driveway are the usual reasons a date moves. If there is a deadline at your end, say so on the first call and the run gets planned backwards from it.
Will a container keep hay and seed dry through a South Burnett winter?
It will, provided it is ventilated and up off the ground. The cold nights and warm days here drive condensation inside any sealed steel box, and that moisture ends up on the underside of the roof and then on what is stacked below. Vents fitted before delivery, the unit sitting on pads so air moves underneath, and a gap left between the stack and the walls handles it. Cargo-worthy units are checked wind and watertight before they leave our yard, and with the ventilation sorted the contents come out in the condition they went in.
How do you sit a container on a sloping block at Nanango or Kumbia?
Yes, and you would struggle to find a block out that way without some fall on it. The method is to pack the downhill corners up to meet the uphill ones on stacked hardwood or pads bedded into the slope, rather than benching out the high side and leaving a channel for runoff to sit in against the wall. Doors face uphill where the site allows it. Set up that way, the frame carries its load the way it was built to and the doors still shut properly in twenty years.
Get a price
Work out the right container with us
We deliver to Kingaroy 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.
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