Clearing the site - secure tool storage.

[ToughButterCup]

Ten years after we  started, we're now at the stage of contemplating the unthinkable. I say 'we' - actually she  is.  And what does that mean?

Getting rid of our site shipping container (20 foot TEU) . I nearly died when she broached the issue.

 

Its my kingdom - I know where everything is - its got all my tools in it, a workbench, electricity, water, a dart board, secret stash of pickled eggs and crisps, an old dentists chair in which I can contemplate my navel, all those tools that I've used once and then never again. There's a tool box for everything.

 

The smell is a  heady mix of  paraffin, D4, meths and rat shit. What's not to like?

 

But, but, but. She's right.  As usual, though, where wimmin are concerned,  there's a plan.

 

"You need a proper workshop dear"

"And how are we going to do that, exactly? I mean while one is being built, how do I store my tools?"

"Well I would have thought that was obvious" (And when a woman says that, it always means she hasn't got a clue.)

 

Hence this post. 

I need to store about half a TEU's worth of valuable tools safely for a few months  - And in a manner which would not get a hollow laugh from an Insurance Loss Adjuster. 

A trip to the local ShiteSheds-R-us won't cut it, I'm afraid.

 

I'm hoping someone here has solved this problem ..... please, if you have, tell us about it.

[ProDave]

If you are happy with the container, clad it with nice wood cladding, put a window in one side and tell here the new workshop is finished.

 

If you really want a new workshop, it is obvious, the new workshop is NOT built where the container is, so the container can remain until the new workshop is complete and everything moved, only then can the container go.

 

This is the very reason we got the static caravan included with our planning with permission to retain it.  It does look better than a shipping container.

[ToughButterCup]

15 minutes ago, ProDave said:

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If you really want a new workshop, it is obvious, the new workshop is NOT built where the container is, so the container can remain until the new workshop is complete and everything moved, only then can the container go.

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Access..... We could just build the new workshop but doing that would prevent us removing the old container. Bummer

 

Putting all  my stuff in store would pretty soon rack up charges in excess of the monetary value of the container (1K ?)

I think we might be saying - build the new workshop and take a chop saw to the old container - scrap value. 😐

[ProDave]

Drag the container to somewhere it will be accessible, then build the new workshop.  Might annoy the neighbours a bit until the container has finally gone.

[-rick-]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

Access..... We could just build the new workshop but doing that would prevent us removing the old container. Bummer

 

Probably crazy, but what would it cost to crane it out? Investing time and money into a 6 month temporary solution is gonna add up. 

 

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

I think we might be saying - build the new workshop and take a chop saw to the old container - scrap value. 😐

 

If it has to go then this might be cheapest. It'll get recycled anyway so not too much of a waste. Might be worth investing in a new toy (plasma cutter) rather than a chop saw though.

[ToughButterCup]

10 minutes ago, -rick- said:

Probably crazy, but what would it cost to crane it out? ...

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Might be worth investing in a new toy (plasma cutter) rather than a chop saw though.

 

1 hour ago, ProDave said:

Drag the container to somewhere it will be accessible, then build the new workshop.  Might annoy the neighbours a bit until the container has finally gone.

 

Crane: top hamper - trees

Plasma cutter - 🫢getting that past Debbie is, ermmmm ...

Drag it out - there are several locals who would have a field day with that one.

 

Its looking like scrap value  🤨

[Oz07]

I have an expandastore they can be put up and taken down by a few guys. Can be handballed around when in pieces. Don't see how it solves your problem entirely though. 

[ProDave]

Okay keep the container as a store cunningly hidden by the new workshop built in front of it.

[-rick-]

40 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

Plasma cutter - 🫢getting that past Debbie is, ermmmm ...

 

Not talking a pro one. Lidl were selling them last year for not much (though duty cycle of these things means you'd need to take regular breaks for it to cool down). Similar can be found on ebay. Should be a load faster and quieter doing that than chop saw. Pretty sure you could find an angle.

[Alan Ambrose]

Buy a 2nd hand Armorgard box. (Yeah, I don’t know why the Americans can’t spell either.) Put your most valuable tools in that or in the house somewhere. All the rest of the xrap - nobody’s going to steal it, in fact you would have to pay someone to take it away - stick it under a tarp and then that’s an incentive to get your new shiny workshop up and running in less than a year.