Thread: storage shelfs

I am planning something similar to go in a shipping container to store timber.
I think you may need to reduce the spacing between the centres if you want it to carry any weight.
I have an 'idea' plan scratched out for mine, I'll see if I can scan it & post it.

Nuh, sorry, I drew it on a big bit of graph paper that won't fit through my scanner.

OK, back again, I cut my plan in half & scanned it in 2 parts.
If you print it out, you can stick it back together.
(The instructions were for the bloke who was going to weld them up but he made a botch up of the last welding job I gave him so I think I'll do it myself.)
I also have a couple of pics of how I plan to make the joins on the ends & along the sides. (Mock up using bits of timber.)

Years ago I bought a 6 metre shipping container,it had been used by a plumbing contractor who was careless and left the main front doors open when we used to have rain.The roof had 30 odd cuts like from an axe (must have had it in a bad location or something) I felt the container being flat roofed and gets hot as hades I bolted brackets on the roof and pitched 8 or 10 inch by 3 inch Oregon beams across the width and out about 10 feet with a steel frame wall down to make another space about the size of the container.

Sorry for the long story but in the cheap 10 dollar ads run by the local paper at that time a guy sold me 80 odd sheets of new roofing insulation 8 feet by 4 feet that stuff that has shiny sisalation one side and the other i/2 to 3/4 inch insulation,so i layered it all between the roof beams on top and used corrugated top quality sheeting from another garage sale on top,then built in the lean to alongside the container.

Inside the container replaced one third of the floor and fitted carpet squares from the replaced tiles from a university free.I cut the container all that is top and sides outside with a 4 inch grinder since it was bright orange and painted it a pleasing green.

Inside I welded upright with a right angle brackets to the side wall before cleaning back and painting with a bracing angle iron for support for two levels of shelving the supports about 5 foot apart and the same across the end of the container.A major kitchen manufacturer of office furniture as well had stacks of top and bottom sheets of 12 foot by 4 foot laminated sheets for nothing.My trailer held three at a time just and when I got them home I slid them and sliced them in half and laid them and screwed them with self drilling bolts to the brackets.Three sheets weighed well over half a ton laid on the top of my 6 by 4 trailer.So the height was divided into three each side giving 2 foot wide solid shelves.Luckily there was a barred small window in one corner.I then fitted a front verandah since the main door seals were suspect.I live on one side to a main drag so the colour appeared to blend in and lessen the impact the bright orange had before I renovated it.

The carrier who brought it dropped or slid the container as near to where he could and I shifted it on my own using a block of wood and an 8 foot length of steam pipe I could barely handle.Shifted it several feet and then across.When I lifted each corner my wife slid the concrete blocks under very gingerly and it holds a stack of my collection od electrical cables etc and paint and whatever very nicely,the thing weighed 1.6 tons empty.Always was a bit determined but now at 73 slowed down a lot since then.

Two things I wanted to say one the container needs to shed water and have some means of protection from the sun.The other is to make it pleasant,waterproof inside,I fitted light and power to a caravan type socket on the side fed by an extension lead.

The few strong brackets are more than enough using solid shelving.

Peter

Thanks Pete, I'll do a new thread when I get my container but I do intend to put a sloping roof on top & clad the weather side.