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.
Orange, NSW
Shipping containers Orange
Orange sits high enough that the weather is a genuine part of the specification, not small talk. Frost most of winter, snow on Canobolas some years, and cold clear nights that make a steel box sweat on the inside if nobody has thought about ventilation. Then there is the soil, which is the deep red basalt that grows the apples and the cherries and holds water like a sponge through a long wet winter. Both of those change what you should buy and how the delivery has to be timed, and both are easier to deal with before the truck is booked.
- Delivered from
- Central west orders are carted inland from our Grafton depot and go onto the scheduled tablelands run.
- Typical lead time
- Usually 6–10 business days; winter drops on unsealed ground are booked for later in the morning
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for town blocks, orchards and firm farm tracks; crane truck for tight yards and where a truck cannot get close to the spot
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.
Start here if you are working out what to order.
What the containers get used for locally
Around Orange we deliver containers for bin, netting and irrigation gear storage on the orchards through Nashdale, Borenore and Spring Hill, vineyard equipment and harvest gear kept dry and locked, contractor and maintenance storage for the mining and services businesses working out of the district, trade storage on the industrial land around Leewood and the northern distributor, hay, fencing and stock gear on the grazing country through Molong, Cargo and Lucknow, site stores on the newer build work at Clifton Grove and North Orange, and household storage while a period cottage in the older streets is renovated.
The access problem in this district
The basalt country around Orange is the best growing soil in the state and it holds water for weeks. Through a wet winter a paddock track or an orchard row that carried a tractor all summer will not carry a loaded rigid truck, and the damage a bogged truck does to a working orchard is worse than the delay would have been. That is the main reason we push a booking here rather than the main reason we cancel one, and it is why winter deliveries onto unsealed ground get booked for later in the morning once the frost has come out and gone off. Frost is the second factor and it works both ways: hard frost sets a surface overnight and makes it excellent at seven in the morning, then thaws it into grease by nine. On the higher ground toward Canobolas there is snow some winters and it is rarely deep enough to matter, but ice on a steep unsealed drive matters a great deal. Then the ground itself. Basalt is heavy clay that swells and shrinks through the year, so a container set straight onto it will move with the seasons and go out of square. Where the basalt gives way to granite around the district you get the opposite: firm as anything, rarely level, and occasionally a ledge just under the surface that stops a peg going in where you wanted the pad. In town, the older streets around the CBD, Glenroi and Bletchington have short driveways, mature exotic street trees that were planted well before anyone imagined a twelve-metre truck, and narrow side gates. Orchard and vineyard properties bring long tracks, gates set at an angle to the road, headland turning space that is sized for a tractor rather than a rigid, and low wires running out to pump sheds and cool rooms. None of it is difficult if we know first.
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 Orange
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.
Orange
The cold makes containers sweat
This is the single most useful thing to know about a container in a cold-climate town, and it is the thing least often mentioned when one is sold. On a clear Orange night the steel drops well below the dew point of the air sealed inside. Moisture condenses on the underside of the roof and by morning it is dripping. Cartons soften, tools spot, and anything with paper or fabric in it takes up damp. Every year somebody rings believing the roof leaks. It almost never does.
Design it out at the start. Vents at both ends so air moves rather than sits. Pads under the corners so ground moisture is not wicking up into the space. Load everything dry, leave a gap between the stack and the walls so air circulates around it, and put a couple of moisture absorbers in over winter. If the container is becoming a workshop, an office, a cellar-door store or anything else that needs a stable interior, insulate the ceiling — that keeps the steel above dew point and removes the problem instead of managing it every July.
On the ground
Setting one on basalt
Red basalt clay is generous soil and difficult footing. It takes up an enormous amount of water through winter and gives it back through summer, swelling and shrinking as it goes, and it does not do it evenly under a six-metre footprint. Set a container straight onto it in February and by August one corner has settled and another has lifted. The frame carries its entire load through the four corners, so once those stop sitting at the same height the box starts working against itself, the frame racks and the doors go from a one-hand job to a shove.
Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the corners fix it, and on this soil make them larger than you would elsewhere — the whole point is to spread the load over more ground than the casting itself covers. Bed them properly, check level in both directions and across both diagonals, and put the door end on the high side of any fall so the doors swing with gravity instead of against it. Keep the underside open so water can get away and air can move, which on ground that stays wet for months is worth as much as the levelling.
Worth knowing
Orchard, vineyard and mine-services work
The district's container work has a distinct local flavour. Orchards want bin storage, netting, irrigation fittings and spray gear locked up and dry between seasons. Vineyards want the same for harvest equipment and hoses. The mining and services businesses want secure, weatherproof stores that can be shifted when a contract moves. Every one of those is a good use for a container, and every one of them has the same two requirements: it has to stay dry inside and it has to be able to be moved later.
Both come back to setup rather than to the container. A unit that has bedded itself into wet basalt over five years has to be dug out before a truck can lift it, whereas one sitting on pads comes straight up. If it lives outdoors holding anything that must stay dry, ask for cargo-worthy — those units are inspected wind and watertight before they are loaded. The grades page goes through what separates one grade from another, so you can choose on what you are storing rather than on the number at the bottom of the quote.
What delivery to Orange 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.
The order of questions is always the same: what is it for, what grade does that need, and can a truck get in.
Elsewhere in the district
We also deliver to Molong, Blayney, Millthorpe, Canowindra, Cowra and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Orange
Does snow or frost cause problems for a container at Orange?
Not for the container itself. The steel is unbothered, and the light snow the district gets most winters clears on its own. What frost changes is the ground and the timing: a driveway that is rock hard at seven in the morning is grease by nine as the thaw comes out of it, so we book winter deliveries onto unsealed ground for mid-morning. The other cold-weather issue is inside — condensation on the roof overnight — which vents, pads and a bit of airflow will handle, or insulation if you are converting it.
Can you get a container down an orchard or vineyard row at Nashdale or Borenore?
Sometimes, and it depends more on the season than the row. Through summer the tracks are firm and it is usually straightforward. Through a wet winter the basalt holds water and a loaded truck will bog and tear a working block up, which costs you more than waiting would. Headland turning space is the other constraint, since a tilt-tray must line up straight to unload. Where the row is doubtful, we will set the container on firm ground near the shed for you to move in with a tractor.
How long is delivery to Orange?
Six to ten business days is the usual window. Containers for the central west are carted inland from the Grafton depot on a scheduled run rather than sitting in a yard here, so it is a planned delivery rather than a next-day one. Winter ground conditions and crane bookings can add a day or two. If you have a fixed date — a harvest, a contractor starting, a shed coming down — tell us at the enquiry and we will schedule around it.
What can I do about damp getting into stored goods over winter?
Treat it as a ventilation problem rather than a waterproofing one. Fit vents at both ends, set the container up on pads so it is not sitting on damp ground, load everything bone dry, leave an air gap between the stack and the walls, and use moisture absorbers through the coldest months. Pallets under boxes rather than boxes on the floor makes a real difference too. For anything genuinely sensitive, insulating the ceiling stops the roof reaching dew point in the first place.
Get a price
Work out the right container with us
We deliver to Orange 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