/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1278623
Camo blends my storage 20' standard height nicely with foliage. It's near a road but doesn't catch the eye.

>>1206055
You'd be ahead to build a shop first to facilitate everything else. I'd have a power pole placed with 120 and 240v outdoor outlets as I did for my shop, then you have power to build your workshop.

Have many cleanouts on the pipe run to your septic. If you never need them they didn't cost much. If you do, you'll have it easy. I glued my cleanout tees to the pipes on only one side so if I ever have to I can easily remove the whole line. It's been twenty years with no problems but forethought is free.

Study hard. Be superbly equipped because tools are cheap compared to what they do for you. A forty foot High Cube shipping container is an instant storm proof storage area and workshop. I have two joined as my welding and machine shop area. You can paint them attractively or use camo to make them vanish. Pic is my 20' storage container.

>>1141304
Weekend hunting trips really are a case for a shipping container. Have it delivered, place first railroad tie under outboard end, then place a second under the "truck side" end.

You can make them blend in. This is my 20ft (I hate using less than a forty but it fit the spot nicely) standard height.

Doors and windows are easy if want. You can fab them elsewhere then install at site.

Containers are tough, easy to work with, and if there's a forest fire it can destroy the paint but isn't likely to destroy the container. (You'd need to recoat promptly to avoid corrosion though.)

I have four and want more.

Modular server room, military maintenance shelter, oil field machine shop, modular jobsite housing, concealable missile launcher, weapons room, ammunition storage, solar power system, shoot house for cops, military or /k/fags, my home machine shop, my ride thru motorcycle garage, my dry furniture storage.

>>1134652
Paint solves that nicely. My 20 in pic. So does not being autismal about how others use their property.

As for why they use them, containers are tough and don't require a poured slab, just support at the corners. Mine aren't obtrusive because camo and latest addition is tan.

Container haters don't know what to do with them. Container proponents who have no experience with them make dumbfuck suggestions on what to do with them because the spergtard mind is fundamentally superficialist.

There is little to invent with containers but the spergtard mind insists on silly ideas instead of LEARNING what containers work well for and what you can copy at a personal level. Most stupid use of a container is burial. You can have the same rape dungeon experience leaving them aboveground along with much easier access.

Containers are best used by active people who DO things containers facilitate. If not sure, buy one to play with. A railroad tie under each end is usually ample support, and you can shim the corner fittings to level the container. Floors are already "machinery rated" because they are how machine tools travel the planet.

If you are not into the esthetic, avoid them, don't try to change the looks, because while you can do that the delicate artist mind will REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! at anything less than a new Parthenon. Save yourself the headache.

Structures are specific solutions to specific problems and most people don't need a container. For that matter most people will never want a workshop.

>>1129659
Price depends on location and grade. Wind and water tight is OK for storage but you'll likely need to recoat the roof. Not hard but do NOT use chain store sealant! Either spring for industrial coating which is impervious to ponding water, or Rustoleum works very well. Been there, done that, tested for many years.

If you can score containers cheap and haul them cheap, great!

I've persuaded my bro to use a High Cube for his home machine shop and he did a fine job insulating it and adding a small AC/heater/dehumidifier unit. He loves the thing and outfitted it with many thousands of dollars worth of electronic assembly benches got at auction for small money. (We team up to buy and move machine tools and anything else we want.) He'll be getting a second container and we will likely bridge them with a trussed metal roof for auto shop space between.

My local community college bought one to store metal for the welding program on my advice. They bought a second and integrated them into their welding program facility which is two storey and simulates a structural and pipe welding environment.

You can make containers blend with your landscape or paint them to match typical farm buildings. Pic is brush camo freehanded by my wife on my 20-foot storage container I use for furniture. We used a twenty due to the shape of the yard, but forties cost similar because everyone wants the little ones. Buy a forty if you have room.

>>1126500
Too small, too specialized. Can work for some things but I suggest not making the standard hobbyist mistake of craving babby feeble apartment mills unless you live in an apartment.

Best for most users and beloved by pros and amateurs is the common knee mill. You can convert those for CNC or find an older one for reasonable money.

They aren't hard to move either. I post now and then with my examples.

A manual knee mill is better use of money than a Ghost Gunner.

A shipping container can make a convenient machine shop with little work involved. I use two welded together. You can make them blend in almost anywhere. Pic is my 20' standard for a camo example. Don't buy a 20 for a shop unless room is tight because 40s sell for the same money.

>>1083260
Containers often float away when the ship carrying them sinks. I love containers, but retards keep wanting to bury them. They can't even tell why. If want mancave there's no need for dirt. Just camo the damn thing and they disappear even in suburbia. Pic is my storage 20-footer. Don't buy the little ones unless your space demands it. Forty-foot High Cubes are much better.

Containers make versatile structures. See companies like Sea Box for examples. They make excellent workshops. However they are shit for burial because they are made of SHEET METAL and they are prone to rusting when buried besides having poor structural design for burial. Reinforcing them loses your interior space.

Wanna bunker? Buy a steam-cleaned railway tank car hull. They are amply heavy and often used as culverts by farmers in the US who have large, very wide, custom harvesting equipment.

Outfit like a boat including a bilge. You can perform all the welding with a basic stick machine but FCAW off a suitcase feeder will make life easier.

Container threads make me sad because I can tell serious Anons how to get a useful shop or other structure from one or two or several, but all they want to do is bury shit like a retarded child. Go bury a retarded child instead.

My 20' standard height storage container. Decal (original) peeled off after ten years. The shrubs on street side of the driveway make it invisible from the road unless you are stopped and looking hard to find it.

My nice camo shop containers are mostly blocked by my steel building so I've no pretty pics of them. While this was my artist wife's camo, copying military camo works very fucking well. What people don't know doesn't make them curious.