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.
Warwick, QLD
Shipping containers Warwick
Warwick sits at the top of a climb, and the climb is the first thing we think about. Every box we send there leaves Cornubia, runs west along the Cunningham and works its way up over the Gap, which is steep, tightly wound, fogged in most cold mornings and shut often enough for crashes and slips that we watch it before promising anyone a time. Once you are up on the Downs the driving is simple. The ground and the weather take over from there, and Warwick has two soils that behave nothing like each other.
- Delivered from
- our Cornubia yard south of Brisbane, run west on the Cunningham Highway and over the Gap
- Typical lead time
- Usually 3–5 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft on town and farm blocks; crane truck or side loader for 40ft and for anything lifted over a fence
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 we tell people who ring from here.
What people here put in them
Around Warwick we deliver containers for hay, lucerne and chaff kept dry and away from mice on the Condamine flats, campdraft and rodeo gear stored properly between events instead of living in a float, saddlery, rugs and feed on the horse blocks through Yangan and Sladevale, fencing wire, posts and strainers on the grazing country running out toward Killarney, fruit bins, netting and irrigation fittings on the orchard blocks heading south into the granite belt, tools and stock overflow on the industrial land off the New England Highway, and a lockable store on a place where the shed filled up years ago.
Access notes for this district
The run matters here more than it does closer to the coast. A Warwick delivery is a couple of hours west of Cornubia and the middle of the trip is Cunninghams Gap, a steep tight climb through the range that carries fog on most cold mornings, closes for crashes and slips more often than anybody would like, and eats time even on a good day. We schedule Warwick runs around that rather than pretending the trip is flat. Winter adds a second wrinkle that coastal customers never think about: heavy frost sits on the Downs until mid-morning through June and July, and a shaded frosted driveway is greasy in a way that has nothing to do with rain. Then there is the ground, and there are two Warwicks. North and west of town, out through Allora, Sladevale and the Condamine flats, it is black soil. Deep self-mulching cracking clay that opens into fissures wide enough to lose a boot in by October, then swells shut and turns to grease within an hour of a storm. Dry, it carries a loaded truck beautifully. Wet, it carries nothing at all, and it will not tell you which one it is doing until the wheels are already on it. Some of those paddocks are gilgai country too, so what looks like a flat approach is actually a series of shallow mounds and hollows. South and east toward Yangan, Killarney and the granite running down past Glen Aplin, the profile changes completely to decomposed granite, gravel and rock shelves under thin cover. Firm, but rarely level, and there is often a rock ledge sitting exactly where a corner casting wants to go. Town blocks are the straightforward part of the job. Warwick was laid out with wide streets and generous frontages, and most of the older sandstone-era addresses give a truck room to stand and swing that no coastal suburb would. What catches people out is the acreage: gates measured at the posts rather than at the narrowest point, grids nobody has ever rated, and a turning area at the far end that looked a lot bigger from the house verandah.
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 Warwick
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.
Warwick
Frost, forty-degree days and the water that appears inside
Warwick has one of the biggest daily temperature swings of anywhere we deliver. A July night in the minus figures followed by an afternoon in the high teens, or a February night at 18 after a day at 38, does something to a steel box that people are genuinely surprised by. Warm air holds moisture, the roof and walls cool faster than the air inside, and the moisture comes back out of the air onto the ceiling as condensation. It then drips onto whatever is underneath. Customers ring us about a leak, we go and look, and the roof is perfectly sound. It is the climate, not the container.
The fix is airflow and separation, and it costs almost nothing. Ask for vents at both ends when you order so air can cross the space rather than sit in it. Keep stock off the floor on pallets or bearers so air moves underneath. Do not seal the thing up tight in April and open it again in September expecting everything to be as you left it, particularly hay, leather, paper records or anything with a fabric surface. Where the contents genuinely cannot take moisture, a few desiccant hangers through a wet summer make a visible difference. And leave the doors open on a dry, breezy day now and then. Warwick gives you plenty of those.
On the ground
Horse country, and gear that only comes out four times a year
Warwick runs on horses and cattle, and a large slice of what we put on the ground here is storage for gear that is idle most of the year and then absolutely has to be ready. Campdraft and rodeo equipment, panels and portable yards, saddlery, rugs, tack and feed, the gear that goes on the float for a weekend at a show and then has to live somewhere for eleven weeks until the next one. A container beats a tarp and it beats the corner of a machinery shed, because it locks, it keeps birds and mice out, and it does not have a tractor reversed into it in March.
Delivery onto a horse property is as much about the animals as the ground. A tilt-tray unloading is a noisy piece of theatre, with hydraulics, chains and a steel box sliding down a steel bed. If horses are in a paddock the truck has to pass or in yards nearby, shift them before we arrive rather than after the truck is committed to a lane it cannot back out of. Tell us at the booking if gates need to stay shut behind us, if the arena is off limits, or if there is a preferred approach that keeps the truck away from the working end of the place.
Worth knowing
What goes underneath on cracking clay
Black soil moves further through the year than almost any ground in the country, and it does not move evenly across a paddock. It shrinks away through the dry and lifts back through the wet, and a container placed straight onto it will follow that movement one corner at a time. The frame is designed to carry everything through the four corner castings, so the moment those four points stop sitting at the same height the box starts working against itself and the doors stop lining up. Doors are the only part of a container you actually use, so a racked unit goes from useful to annoying fast.
On this country we would rather over-do the footings than come back. Wide concrete pads or a pair of long hardwood bearers spread the point load over a bigger patch than a single sleeper does, which matters when the soil underneath changes volume with the season. Put the door end on the high side of any fall so the doors swing with gravity. Keep the underside clear so air moves and water gets away instead of ponding against the bottom rail. Tell us at the quote what the ground is and roughly when it last rained, and we will bring the timber on the truck rather than leaving you a job for the weekend.
What delivery to Warwick costs
Delivery is priced with the container, not separately and not off a list. One phone call gets you the real number for your address.
One call sorts it. Size, grade, where it is going and what the entry looks like — that is everything we need to price it properly.
Elsewhere in the district
We also deliver to Allora, Stanthorpe, Killarney, Yangan, Clifton and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Warwick
Does Cunninghams Gap actually affect when my container turns up in Warwick?
It does, and we would rather say so than invent a date. The Gap is the pinch point on the whole run from Cornubia. It fogs in on cold mornings, it closes for crashes and for landslips after heavy rain, and even when it is clear it is a slow climb for a loaded truck. Most Warwick deliveries land inside three to five business days. If you have a fixed date, a settlement, a show weekend or a contractor booked, tell us at the enquiry and we will build the run around it instead of explaining afterwards why it slipped.
Will a truck get across black soil paddocks after rain?
Not reliably, and we will not pretend otherwise. Black soil out through Allora and the Condamine flats is superb going when it is dry and completely impassable within an hour of a decent storm, and the surface gives away nothing about which state it is in. If your approach crosses it we will ring and shift the date rather than bog a truck and cut a trench across your paddock. Where there is a firm alternative such as a gravelled lane, a hardstand near the road or a spot by the shed that stays solid, tell us and we will use it.
Why does the inside of my container get wet in Warwick when the roof is fine?
Almost always condensation rather than a leak, and Warwick's temperature swing makes it more pronounced here than on the coast. Warm moist air inside meets a roof that has cooled off overnight and the moisture comes out onto the steel. Vents at both ends, contents kept up off the floor on pallets, and the doors opened on a dry day occasionally will handle most of it. If you are storing hay, leather, paper or anything else that will not forgive damp, mention it when you order and we will set the unit up with that in mind.
Can you deliver out into the granite country south of Warwick?
Yes, and it is a different job to a delivery on the flats. Down through Yangan, Killarney and the granite belt the ground is gravel, decomposed granite and rock shelf. It is firm, which helps, but it is almost never level and there is frequently rock right where a corner needs to sit. We build the low side up with sleepers or pads rather than cutting into the high side, because cutting in just makes a channel for water to run along beside the container. Send a photo of the spot and the approach and we will bring the right gear.
Get a price
Find out what actually fits
We deliver to Warwick 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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