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.
Tamworth, NSW
Shipping containers Tamworth
Half the containers we send to Tamworth end up on a property with horses on it, and that changes how a delivery has to be run. The other half go to town blocks and to the sheds at Taminda, where the job is simpler. What links the two is the soil. Black soil is the best growing dirt in the country and the worst thing you can stand a heavy truck on after rain, and it does not give you much warning about which mode it is in. Getting the timing and the pad right is most of the work here.
- Delivered from
- Tamworth stock is carted inland from our Grafton depot, up over the ranges and onto the New England, on a scheduled run rather than a truck kept waiting locally.
- Typical lead time
- Usually 5–9 business days, built around the inland run
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for most town and property drops; crane truck where a gate, a yard or a set of powerlines makes a tilt unsafe
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 Tamworth we deliver containers for hay, chaff and hard feed kept dry and away from vermin, tack, rugs and float gear stored properly instead of in the corner of a shed, vet supplies and drenches locked up out of the heat, fencing wire, posts and strainers in one place, trade storage on the industrial land at Taminda and Westdale, gear and materials for the constant build work at Calala, Hillvue and Moore Creek, and machinery parts and workshop tools on the cropping and grazing country out through Manilla, Kootingal, Nemingha and the Liverpool Plains.
The delivery problem here
The first question on a Tamworth property delivery is what the driveway is made of and when it last rained. Black soil country does two things. In a dry spell it sets like a road, cracks open wide enough to lose a fencing tool down, and carries anything you put on it. Within an hour of decent rain the same surface turns to a grease that a loaded rigid truck will not climb, will not steer on, and will not stop on. There is no in-between and no way to tell from the house. That is why we ask, why we will move a booking by two days, and why the honest answer to a wet week is next week. The red basalt around Moore Creek and up toward Nundle behaves better but not by much. After that it is the usual property list, and every item on it is worth checking before you order. Cattle grids first: most private grids out here were built by a previous owner out of whatever rail was going, sized for a ute and a float, with no plate and no rating. A loaded truck is a different animal. If you do not know what the grid will take, say so and we will look at the side gate, a drop on firm ground near the road, or a crane lift instead. Then gates, which measure narrower at the swing than they look at the posts. Then culverts of unknown vintage on the driveway. Then turning space at the far end, which needs to be genuinely truck-sized, because a tilt-tray must line up straight to unload and nobody wants to reverse four hundred metres back to the road. And then the horses. A tilt bed unloading is loud — hydraulics, chains and a steel box sliding on a steel deck — so move stock out of the laneway and out of the paddock the truck has to pass through before we arrive, not while the driver is halfway down a drive with nowhere to turn.
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 Tamworth
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.
Tamworth
Working around an equine property
Tamworth has more horses per square kilometre than almost anywhere in the country, and a container delivery onto a working equine property is as much about the animals and the routine as it is about the ground. Tell us at the booking which gates have to stay shut behind us, which approach avoids the arena and the wash bays, whether anyone is working horses at the time we are due, and whether there is a preferred paddock lane. None of that is hard to plan for and all of it is impossible to fix once a truck is committed to a driveway.
It is also worth thinking about where the container earns its keep on that kind of place. Tack and rugs in a lockable steel box stay dry, stay out of the dust and stay away from mice. Hard feed keeps better and cannot be got at. Float gear, spare rails and the everything-else that accumulates around a horse operation ends up in one place instead of four sheds. Set it near the stables and the feed room rather than at the back of the block and you will use it every day.
On the ground
Black soil, cracks and getting it level
Vertosol black soil moves more than almost any other ground in Australia. It swells when it takes up water and shrinks hard as it dries, and it does not do either evenly across a paddock or a house block. Set a container straight onto it in October and by March one corner will have gone down and another up. The frame carries its whole load through four corners, and the moment those four points stop sitting at the same height the box works against itself, the frame racks, and the doors go from one-handed to a two-person shove.
Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the corners, bedded well and checked level in both directions and on both diagonals, deal with it. Make the pads bigger than you think on black soil, because the point of them is to spread load over a wider footprint than the casting itself. Keep the door end on the high side of any fall. Keep the underside clear and grass down so air moves through and water gets away. Do that once on delivery and it stays square, which on this country is not a given.
Worth knowing
Heat, dust and January
Two local realities worth planning around. The first is summer heat. A steel box in the open at Tamworth in January gets hot inside, and anything heat-sensitive — chemicals, some vet supplies, adhesives, electronics, anything with a temperature range printed on the label — needs to be thought about before it goes in. Vents help move air, siting it where it picks up afternoon shade helps more, and a light-coloured roof helps most. Fine western dust is the other constant, and it gets through any gap it can find, which is a good argument for a unit with sound door seals rather than the cheapest thing available.
The second is the festival. For ten days in January the town fills up, the roads are busy, accommodation is gone and getting a truck through the middle of Tamworth on a schedule is optimistic. If your container needs to be on the ground before or during that window, order well ahead of it. We would rather deliver a fortnight early than explain why a truck is sitting in traffic on Peel Street.
What delivery to Tamworth costs
The cartage component depends on which depot the unit comes out of and what the site needs. We work it out with the quote.
We would rather ask two more questions on the phone than send the wrong container up the road.
We deliver around here too
We also deliver to Gunnedah, Armidale, Manilla, Quirindi, Werris Creek and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Tamworth
Will your truck cross the grid on my Tamworth property driveway?
That depends on the grid, and most private grids out here have no rating plate and no known history. A loaded truck carrying a container puts far more through it than the ute and float it was probably built for. If you know it is engineered and rated, tell us. If you do not, tell us that as well and we will look at a side gate, setting the container down on firm ground nearer the road for you to shift in with a tractor, or bringing a crane truck. All three beat finding out halfway across.
Can you deliver onto black soil after rain?
Not while it is wet, and we will say so rather than try. Black soil goes from concrete-hard to unusable within an hour of rain, and a loaded rigid truck on it will bog, chew a trench across the paddock or slide on a slope. We would rather ring you and move the day. If you have a hardstand near the road, a gravelled shed apron or a stretch of the drive that always stays firm, tell us — that is often the difference between delivering this week and waiting for the ground to dry out.
Is a container any good for storing feed and tack out here?
It is one of the main reasons people around Tamworth buy them. It is lockable, it keeps mice, birds and dust out far better than a shed with gaps, and cargo-worthy units are inspected wind and watertight before they are loaded, so what goes in dry stays dry. Two things make a difference: set it on pads so air moves under the floor rather than the floor sitting on damp ground, and open the doors on a dry day occasionally so any condensation clears rather than sitting in there through a humid spell.
How long will it take to get a container to Tamworth?
Five to nine business days is the usual window. Tamworth stock is carted inland from the Grafton depot, so it travels on a scheduled run rather than coming out of a local yard, and that is why we quote a window rather than a day. Wet ground, a crane booking, or the country festival week in January will all stretch it. If you have a fixed date — a shearing, a harvest, a shed being pulled down — give it to us at the enquiry and we will schedule to it.
Get a price
Get the container and the cartage in one number
We deliver to Tamworth 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