Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - FoD Open Weekend 15/16 June

[richardmorris]

Who here was it worked at Felixstowe docks up the massive crane?

[Shite Ron]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Who here was it worked at Felixstowe docks up the massive crane?

Isn’t that @trigger? I don’t think he’ll be able to get one in the boot of a Dolly Sprint and get it past security.

[LightBulbFun]

28 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Wanted SHIPPING CONTAINER!

 We need some more water proof storage at the FoD and are giving consideration to a 40 ft shipping container. I am shocked at the price which seems to start at £2250.

Anybody know of a less expensive shipping container for sale bearing in mind it will have to be transported to Milton Keynes area. Consideration could be given to a 20ft container if the price was right.

surely this is a good excuse to buy yourself a nice Train carriage and flog the seats on the Facebook to recuperate the cost?  

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Shite Ron said:

Isn’t that @trigger? I don’t think he’ll be able to get one in the boot of a Dolly Sprint and get it past security.

I was really thinking they may know a contact selling old ones ( honest gov).

[AnthonyG]

Have you thought of a old lorry body instead? Or Artic trailer box? I don’t think shipping containers come much cheaper than the one you’ve found.

They are very popular for storage as its easy to make one a lot more secure than the average shed. 

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Have you thought of a old lorry body instead? Or Artic trailer box? I don’t think shipping containers come much cheaper than the one you’ve found.

They are very popular for storage as its easy to make one a lot more secure than the average shed. 

Many years ago when I worked for a company in Llandudno the contract they had stipulated that all samples ( soil and water) had to be kept refrigerated so they bought a trailer box fridge unit and had it wired in. 

[Zelandeth]

Wasn't there some kerfuffle recently about there being a huge shortage of them as well? Which may have had an impact on prices.

[trigger]

It is me who drives the crane but apart from moving them all day long I haven't got any experience in buying them, they are very expensive now, my dad sold a rotten 40fter that was full of holes recently and that went for over a grand and it was a utter turd.

[Andyrew]

Lorry bodys are what the farmer used to build his extra storage due to the price of containers a good few years ago. 

Containers have gone way up now so this probably knocks lorry bodys up. 

Downside is that they are wooden floors but they usually have a fibreglass roof so nice and light inside, less prone to sweating inside and usually a roller shutter door. 

 

[mitsisigma01]

Would you get a 40ft'er in the gate and round the bends ?

[Crackers]

Two barns and an Astravan, and you still want more storage?! 

What the hell have you been buying this time?

[High Jetter]

Who's in the dog house, you or @Mrs6C?

[AnthonyG]

You need a Luton body that fits* on the back of a Bedford CF recovery truck, that would be ideal. Or maybe not.

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Would you get a 40ft'er in the gate and round the bends ?

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

[mitsisigma01]

I know I was there ! 

Just get 4 twenty footers !

[Crackers]

I think the only way you could get a 40footer in would be to crane it over the hedge, but depending on where you want it that could be difficult as you'd have to go over the barns or orchard. 

2x20ft would probably be easier and could be brought in one by one with a big HIAB wagon that would get round the gate corner. 

[Saabnut]

Prices down your way are cheaper than here. A 20ft costs what you have been quoted for a 40ft, and that will only get you a battered one!

[High Jetter]

9 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

and that will only get you a battered one!

That chippy's going to be busy! 

[davidfowler2000]

25 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

 

Sounds about right. It was a 11.3m variant

[Crackers]

I bet they're cheap in the States. Time for a collective container collection caper?

[High Jetter]

You missed out 'camper' 

[wuvvum]

48 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You might have a point, this is the largest vehicle we have had in and that was about max. Google says it was 36 feet long. @davidfowler2000

Ah, but with a container you wouldn't have that problem - you'd simply* use the JCB to lift it over the hedges.

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Ah, but with a container you wouldn't have that problem - you'd simply* use the JCB to lift it over the hedges.

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

[Talbot]

Prices are high as the 'rona virus has severely limited the number coming into the country for the last 2 years.  8 years ago they were cheap and plentiful as they were not wanted back in China:  it cost more to ship one back than it did to make a new one.

Of course this meant that a load of self-storage compaies popped up, having bought 100 containers, thus hoovering up all the supply of them.  Now we've got a shortage of them as they're all in yards full of people's tat.  I suspect prices will remain high until we get a glut of them in the UK again after we've imported a load of crap from China.

[warch]

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, warch said:

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

Do you think our current boat would do the job!

Edit - updated photo with less green for @wuvvum.

 

[tooSavvy]

57 minutes ago, warch said:

Top tip.

Nearly 1400 shipping containers are lost overboard worldwide every year. So get yourself down to your nearest international sea lane with a grappling hook and get fishing. Remember you are almost certainly* covered against piracy under the provisions laid out in the Merchant Shipping Act (1995) so don't be intimidated by the UK Border Force instructing you to stop what you're doing and fuck off. 

If, perchance, it's is full of would be immigrants.... Chuck It Back (don't tell UK Border Force if they come sniffing....)

😱

[wuvvum]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do you think our current boat would do the job!

There is far too much green in that photo.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

Easy solution to that - buy a bigger JCB.

[AnnoyingPentium]

5 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

40ft shipping container weigh about 4 tons empty, our JCB has a 1 ton lift capacity!

Easy solution to that - buy a bigger JCB.