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Tbone95 
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 Posted: 13 Mar 2025 at 2:42pm |
 tadams(OH) wrote:
They look tacky the way they are but you could cover them with vinyl siding or even steel siding to make them look better. |
and add even more cost?  Anyway, the pictures they sent me all showed the roof sitting on the “inner edge” of the container, in other words the container is not under the roof. I don’t particularly care for that flat top holding snow up against the roof structure and such. On the other hand wouldn’t be a fan of having them under roof either and losing all the space for combines and tractors and equipment. Guess you could say one of those just isn’t for me.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 13 Mar 2025 at 5:22pm |
google 'sea can garage', select 'images'...... !!!! Lots of great ways to use them.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 13 Mar 2025 at 5:52pm |
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by the time you purchase two sea cans and have them positioned and level... I think you could drill a couple dozen holes and plant laminated posts... Either way, you got to buy a ROOF.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 13 Mar 2025 at 7:44pm |
40' used abused seacan might be $3000, so $6K for cans, another 6K for roof ?(don't know what trusses go for south of the 49th....) sounds like cheap protection AND get TWO 8x8x40 lockable storage units to boot.
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3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
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Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water
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Tbone95
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 6:06am |
steve(ill) wrote:
by the time you purchase two sea cans and have them positioned and level... I think you could drill a couple dozen holes and plant laminated posts... Either way, you got to buy a ROOF. |
yep
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Tbone95
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 6:20am |
jaybmiller wrote:
40' used abused seacan might be $3000, so $6K for cans, another 6K for roof ?(don't know what trusses go for south of the 49th....) sounds like cheap protection AND get TWO 8x8x40 lockable storage units to boot. |
$6k for a roof? Well I don’t know what I did wrong then. I wanted 14 feet of clearance so I was looking at the pony wall and roof. If you want it to code and permitted and all that BS, you have to buy an engineered plan. I don’t quite remember what width I asked for, probably 30 feet or so, and 40 feet long for the containers. So engineering, all the materials, and freight was over $50k, plus the containers and site prep and getting the containers level and square and all that jazz. I surely don’t have the means to do that. I vigorously rejected that quote, told him I had no idea what I was getting into and that was out of my league. About 3 weeks later he contacted me and said there was a cancellation, plus another building being shipped about 25 miles from me to save on freight and offered it for about $30k. So with all other expenses, figure $40-$65k! Yeah I suppose you could skirt all that and cobble together something cheaper, then have it blow down and damage the equipment. Then what did you save? And that was a building with no end walls, just the two sides and a roof. And assuming I did all my own work which I would probably not be able to do the setting of trusses.
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 9:01am |
I'm going to look into some sort of structure like mentioned here at some point. Was thinking a camper style carport but the sea cans might work? Mostly just for parts storage. I have an old 'cargill' unit Dad raised hogs on so there is concrete available.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 9:16am |
If your looking for COST $$... i would start with something like this.. You can alway add side walls or a lean too onto the sides at a later date... You just need a good ANCHOR to the ground.... rods or concrete weights.. Steel has to be better long term than the canvas tent type covers ?
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Tbone95
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 9:26am |
Missed out 15 years ago when a lumber yard went out of business and they tore it down. Lots of 3 walled sheds with wide bay openings. Not tall enough for a combine but would have been great for headers, balers, tractors etc. siding looked pretty rough but even to just get the roof trusses would have been nice. Chinks own the factory across the road from our shop. They have expanded great guns. They built a 80 x 120x 20(?) pole style addition only to tear it down less than 2 years later! Not just taken apart, destroyed. Faster that way of course. 
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wjohn
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 8:17pm |
steve(ill) wrote:
by the time you purchase two sea cans and have them positioned and level... I think you could drill a couple dozen holes and plant laminated posts... Either way, you got to buy a ROOF. |
Yep... I think I have it down to post frame or carport style, as far as cost goes. Looking at some of the carport style ones - they get pricey quickly when you only look at the ones with good wind ratings, especially as you go wider with them. They seem to be cheaper if they are narrow and long like for RVs, which makes sense since the structure can be pretty minimal across the top. Even at that, a lot of them require being set on concrete and anchored down to it to get that advertised wind resistance. Seems like I am looking at carports that wind up being about 2/3 the cost of a slant roof post frame building, so it's hard to not lean towards the post frame that should last the rest of my life.
We have had 30-40 MPH sustained winds all day and the highest recorded gust was 69 MPH. No storms. I don't want to go too cheap on a structure for sure - there are steel 55 gallon drums blowing/rolling around on my neighbor's property right now!
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