Shipping Container shop project

PAE said:
Buying cans mostly elsewhere is someone elses fantasy, I bought two with side doors that are already in Seattle waiting to be put on my barge, and the rest were bought local.

Have the average or maybe above average amount of crap to ship and when that time comes I'll pull it north.
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So you own a barge? You're not just shipping it?

You're going to captain a ship pulling a barge to Alaska? How big of a ship do you have?
 
JR4X said:
That guy has follow through. No questions, just built the thing and then showed it off. Location might be a little more conducive for the project than Alaska.
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he did pileons for elevation, then ibeams for a level foundation very similar to the dude from texas that build his mega mansion. name escapes right now, but its a night house open concept, large slope on the crawl space and hes some sort sheet metal/structural steel guy.
 
RusM said:
So you own a barge? You're not just shipping it?

You're going to captain a ship pulling a barge to Alaska? How big of a ship do you have?
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He can just drive it up himself.

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Thats lovely for a single can, but how would you put another 40 ft can parallel to it with a breeze way 20 ft between them and keep them parallel so the 2nd suspended floor does not pull away from one of them and fall onto what is parked below ?

Btw bare aluminum will oxidize in less than 10 years when placed in the ground.

Anode ?


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Leveled up a pad for a 20' this afternoon. Sunk a 12" aluminum beam in the end for it to have a better bearing surface than just a pile of rca.
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PAE said:
Thats lovely for a single can, but how would you put another 40 ft can parallel to it with a breeze way 20 ft between them and keep them parallel so the 2nd suspended floor does not pull away from one of them and fall onto what is parked below ?

Btw bare aluminum will oxidize in less than 10 years when placed in the ground.

Anode ?
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I, too, thought she had a lovely single can until I looked at her breezeway. I did not wish for her to pull away once she fell upon what was parked below.
 
PAE said:
Thats lovely for a single can, but how would you put another 40 ft can parallel to it with a breeze way 20 ft between them and keep them parallel so the 2nd suspended floor does not pull away from one of them and fall onto what is parked below ?

Btw bare aluminum will oxidize in less than 10 years when placed in the ground.

Anode ?
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Longer beam? You going to just set a roof on top without anchoring it in any way? Will your 18' metal roofing cover the distance? Are you going to tie the upper and lower cans together, or leave those loose too?
 
Look tied together much ?

Tied together with twist locks I pilfered them from shipping company I worked for.

Have a box of about 25-30 of them.


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PAE said:
Btw bare aluminum will oxidize in less than 10 years when placed in the ground.
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Aluminum oxidizes in seconds when its exposed to oxygen, part of why its so corrosion resistant.
 
Reading comprehension much ?

Did I say anything remotely about being worried about a can tipping over , no I didnt.


ConwayMuddy said:
So then you're concerned with 2 tied together cans tipping over?
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PAE said:
Reading comprehension much ?
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Oh, fuck you! :flipoff:

It's fucking annoying in your "PAE needs help" threads when you don't explain shit clearly and completely like a rational adult, then get snippy with folks that didn't properly piece together your trail of sovereign bread crumbs.

Motherfucker, you're asking people to donate their time to you - don't waste their fucking time :mad3:

I'm sorry if that feedback wasn't cuddly enough, but you're being a fucking douchebag :flipoff2:


EDIT: in before the HGTD :bounce2:
 
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PAE said:
Reading comprehension much ?

Did I say anything remotely about being worried about a can tipping over , no I didnt.
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I'll admit I missed the part about a suspended floor, I thought you were trying to keep it open to the roof, maybe I was wrong about that. You also ignored most of my original post. If the two stacked cans are hooked together, and the 2 stacks of cans are tied together at the roof and base, do you really think they will collapse? To what, and how, do you plan to suspend the floor?

Maybe get a quote for 3 slabs, bottom, suspended floor, and one to set the roof on.
 
Sorry yes a suspended floor between the top and bottom cans, thinking equal placed beams across the breezeway between the cans and then tie in the wood floor (1 inch or so thick plywood 4x8) upon the webs of those beams and the wood parked on the webs.

Even spaced so wood cut can go into any space its needed for and for weight distribution.

Im open to other ideas for the floor but like the idea of the I beams across from container to container at about 4 or 5 spots / by 40 ft.

Floor suspended by the I beams between the containers like in the pic below.


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ConwayMuddy said:
I'll admit I missed the part about a suspended floor, I thought you were trying to keep it open to the roof, maybe I was wrong about that. You also ignored most of my original post. If the two stacked cans are hooked together, and the 2 stacks of cans are tied together at the roof and base, do you really think they will collapse? To what, and how, do you plan to suspend the floor?


Maybe get a quote for 3 slabs, bottom, suspended floor, and one to set the roof on.
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You should totally buy two properties up there, ya know, summer and winter spots. Plus all that government monies...

Put attachment spots on this thing so it can be airlifted by helicopter betwixt.
 
Murse said:
You should totally buy two properties up there, ya know, summer and winter spots. Plus all that government monies...

Put attachment spots on this thing so it can be airlifted by helicopter betwixt.
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Ahh, it's all starting to come together now.


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Still waiting for pics of the barge and ship your going to tow your containers to Alaska with.......,..........................................
 
PAE said:
Sorry yes a suspended floor between the top and bottom cans, thinking equal placed beams across the breezeway between the cans and then tie in the wood floor (1 inch or so thick plywood 4x8) upon the webs of those beams and the wood parked on the webs.

Even spaced so wood cut can go into any space its needed for and for weight distribution.

Im open to other ideas for the floor but like the idea of the I beams across from container to container at about 4 or 5 spots / by 40 ft.

Floor suspended by the I beams between the containers like in the pic below.


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