Shipping Container shop project

I know a guy with the double stack set up, but with a huge arch tarp canopy roof.

He's got office spaces in some of them and tool storage. Uses a forklift to load into to the uppers from the door end, and cut the end walls out. Works good for him but way bigger than pae's design.
 
A buddy has a setup like that in Magalia, it was built into the building and hidden as its not to code but, so what.

Building inspector didnt notice the 4x4 platform with a 1 inch gap on all sides.

Its majorly cool to have such a setup for lifting to make it easier.

Ill get pics of the lift when I'm up there next.

M92PV4U said:
Forklift with remote up and down would be sweet.
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Here is more what it would look like, remember using 9.5' tall high cube cans.

Also a floor between the cans.

Might use matson cans as at least at one time they were the only factory made choise between the 20 and 40 ft cans, they were 24ft.

The roof material would still be a preexisting 18' long standing seam steel I have on hand.



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PAE said:
Im kinna set in my ways, the 8 inch concrete slab is to hold anything I might put on it and yeah gonna put the cans on the slab also as its gonna have a total of 4 cans and a structure between them on it as well as in a floor made by 2x12's at the Junction between the top of the bottom cans and the bottom of the top cans.
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Just exactly how much weight are you planning on putting on to it?
We use a 6-inch slab at work, fiber in the mix, no rebar except in the footings and for dowels between sections of the slab and that has no issues holding a forklift that weighs 16,000 lb carrying 6,000 lb around with that weight being concentrated in two 6 in by 8 in and two 6-in by 4 in rubber tire contact spots.

Aaron Z
 
Its not just the weight aspect but also keeping things in alignment that I'm thinking of as to why the cans would sit on the pad / slab.

80,000 lbs or the legal way road weight of a 48 ft semi trailer.
 
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A building made out of stacked cans is beyond dumb. Why not set them on their ends and make a pole building out of them? :flipoff2:

Is there a lumber shortage in Alaska?
 
BCzuk said:
I only have a single container for storage but it has been sitting on concrete pavers with no issues
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Mine is on CCA timbers on each end. Running on 6 years and all good. Also truly “temporary”. Besides keep separation between the steel and the earth to help reduce rust on the bottom.
 
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I'll move out of the area of Tx Im in before PAE moves to Ak. And Im 3yrs away now...fuck thats depressing to say out loud.

Wait are you gonna be neighbors with AKnate? Y'all seem to be on about the same level.
 
Yes maybe some nice windows on the opposite end, thats the top floor the first floor will be open as it will house trucks etc.

thats much farther along than things are at this point.

Tin Roof said:
Are you going to close in both ends of the center part?
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I could get permanent fund $$$$ if I lived in Alaska.


ConwayMuddy said:
PAE I thought you were moving to Oregon, or maybe Washington? Those to close to California so now it's Alaska?
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PAE said:
The suspended floor and the roof trusses etc.
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If you want to spend that money and time to pour a slab for the containers...go for it. You said you self you are set in your ways.

A footing extending off the middle slab, running under the perimeter of the cans....I can't see why you wouldn't want to do that. Not as much dirt work, concrete and cost. Build the footings right, frame your trusses right, etc. I don't think you should just rely on your mega slab "for alignment"

Shops, homes, etc are built on footings......what you are doing is not complex. Hell a 8" slab seems cray cray.

But I guess you are retired, rich, and it sounds like you can live on AK for free or paid to live there??? Fucking send it. I have no idea why you would make a thread about all this. You're set in your ways and sounds like money isn't an issue. Over engineer the fuck out of it and run a sold gold slab playa:smokin:
 
JR4X said:
Why TF would the stairs be inside? If it’s doubling as a shed for storage only, a simple stairway outside would be easy enough.

I’m not even making a case for the op. But in his picture above. The doors for the bottom units face the street side while the top units are spun around where the end doors are the back side. Within a fraction of a second of looking at that picture I envision stairs to access the doors to the top units on the side of the picture not shown
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I actually read how he’s putting the side doors to the inside, on top. Any ideas how to access the side doors, from inside, without taking up the space I mentioned before? I mean, I just read what he wrote and came to my conclusion in a fraction of a second…:flipoff2:

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The side doors of the upper cans are opened from the outside while standing on the suspended floor.
 
Do you have any idea of the price of these style cans delivered in bfe Alaska? What about the cost to lift one on top of the other? Price of all this concrete?

If you're moving to Alaska, I'm guessing you won't take that much with you, so why do you need 4 damn 40 foot cans of storage?
 
Jackie Treehorn said:
A building made out of stacked cans is beyond dumb. Why not set them on their ends and make a pole building out of them? :flipoff2:

Is there a lumber shortage in Alaska?
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JR4X said:
Permanent stairs to the upper boxes that hard to use?
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I saw a self storage yard like that. One level at grade. One level on top all pointed the other way. Motel style balcony to access the top level.
 
aczlan said:
Just exactly how much weight are you planning on putting on to it?
We use a 6-inch slab at work, fiber in the mix, no rebar except in the footings and for dowels between sections of the slab and that has no issues holding a forklift that weighs 16,000 lb carrying 6,000 lb around with that weight being concentrated in two 6 in by 8 in and two 6-in by 4 in rubber tire contact spots.

Aaron Z
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interesting
how much frost heave does your area get though?
not for PAE, for my numbers
because my shit heaves like a foot or more, sadly so shit's unlikely to hold up without a fuckton of steel in it
 
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And?

It looks trendy…and that’s about it. Do the cans on top serve any purpose other than being billboards? Do they keep extra pickles up there where they’re a pain in the ass to get to?
 
Jackie Treehorn said:
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And?

It looks trendy…and that’s about it. Do the cans on top serve any purpose other than being billboards? Do they keep extra pickles up there where they’re a pain in the ass to get to?
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You're the smart guy that said it was dumb, clearly smarter people than you have been doing it for quite awhile.
All the mechanicals are in some of the elevated containers, its actually a slick system

I guess if you're a fat fuck stairs would be hard so I can't answer that for you :flipoff2:
 
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