10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Gatton, QLD
Shipping containers Gatton
Gatton is about as close as this job gets. Our yard sits at Forest Hill, ten minutes east on the Forest Hill Fernvale Road, which means the haul is short, the freight component is small, and you can drive out, walk the rows and put your hand on the actual container before anyone loads it. The complication here is not distance. It is irrigated ground.
- Delivered from
- Our own hardstand at Forest Hill, ten minutes down the road
- Typical lead time
- Frequently the same day when the unit is ready and the truck is free, otherwise next morning
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft, side loader for 40ft, all of it dispatched from the yard up the road
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
What matters locally, first.
What they get used for around here
Around Gatton we deliver containers for packing shed overflow through the vegetable season, secure storage for irrigation fittings, poly and drip tape that tends to walk if it is left in the open, chemical and fertiliser lock-ups a sensible distance from the main shed, dry storage for bins, crates and pallets between plantings, machinery and header parts on the grain country south of town, and tool storage for the trades working around the university campus and the newer estates.
Getting it onto the block
The Lockyer floor is deep alluvial soil that has been worked, watered and cultivated for a century, and it behaves nothing like the hard country either side of it. Dry, a cultivated headland will carry a truck happily. Two days after an irrigation run or a decent storm, the same headland turns into a paste that a loaded rigid will sink through in one wheel rotation. This is the single thing we ask about before a Gatton delivery: has that paddock had water on it this week. It is not a hard question to answer and it saves everybody a bad afternoon. Farm access here also tends to run through infrastructure rather than around it. Irrigation channels, buried mainline, lay-flat across a track, a pump shed at the pinch point, a lateral move parked where the truck needs to swing. Steel does not care, but a mainline under 200mm of soil does, and a set of dual wheels with a container on the tray will find it. We would rather come in the long way through a gate that looks inconvenient than take the short way over a pipe. In town the picture flips. The older blocks around the main street are compact, with a single driveway, a fence line and a clothesline exactly where the container wants to go, and the practical answer is often to place it in the front yard and move it later with a smaller machine. Then there is water. Lockyer Creek has been through this town more than once and everyone here knows their own contour better than any map. We will not pretend a container solves that. What it does is hold your gear at whatever height you put it, so if there is a rise on the block, that is where the unit goes, and it is worth spending an extra half hour getting the pad right rather than putting it on the low corner because the truck can reach it easily.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Gatton
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
Gatton
Ten minutes away, and what that actually buys you
The distance between the yard at Forest Hill and most of Gatton is about ten minutes, and that changes the shape of the whole transaction. You are not buying a container off a photo and a description and hoping for the best. Ring, tell us what you are after, and drive out. The units sit on hardstand in rows and you can walk them, open the doors, look along the floor, put a torch on the roof seams and decide which particular box you want. People do it on a lunch break. The unit you looked at is the unit that gets loaded, which sounds like it should be normal and is not always.
A short haul also means the delivery is a small part of the number rather than the thing that decides it, and it means we can be flexible in ways a long-distance carrier cannot. If the first position does not work once the truck is on site, and sometimes it does not, because a spot that looked fine from the kitchen window turns out to have a septic trench under it, we are ten minutes from home rather than four hours. Photos of the unit are available on request and before delivery if you would rather not come out at all. But for a Gatton job, coming out is better, and most people do.
On the ground
Containers in a working vegetable operation
Vegetable growing in this valley runs hard for months and then stops, and the storage problem follows exactly the same shape. Through the season the packing shed is full and there is nowhere to put the things that are not needed this week. Out of season there is a mountain of gear, including bins, crates, pallets, shade cloth, drip tape, fittings and spare pump ends, that has to live somewhere dry and out of the sun, because ultraviolet destroys poly faster than use does. A container parked at the end of the shed solves both, and unlike a farm shed it locks properly and it can be shifted to the next block if the operation moves.
The second job it does out here is keeping things away from the main shed. Chemical, fertiliser, fuel gear and spray equipment are all better off in their own lockable steel box a sensible distance from where people work and where machinery is parked, and a container gives you that without adding another permanent building to the yard. If it is going to hold anything that gasses off, vent it properly and vent it high. That is a cheap addition while the unit is in front of us at the yard and an awkward one afterwards. Vermin are the other reality. A container sitting level with intact door seals and a solid floor is genuinely hard for rats and mice to get into, which is more than most sheds around here can claim.
Worth knowing
Why level matters more on cultivated ground
A shipping container gets its strength from its corners, and it wants those four corners supported and roughly in the same plane. On the cultivated flats around Gatton the soil is soft, deep and worked, and a container sitting straight on it will settle unevenly over a season, usually one corner more than the rest. When it does, the frame racks a fraction and the doors stop meeting. Anyone who has fought a container door that will not close on a hot afternoon has met this problem. The fix costs almost nothing at delivery and is a genuine pain later: put something under the corners. Hardwood sleepers, concrete pads, even a couple of well-bedded blocks per corner will do it, set on ground scraped back to something firm rather than on loose topsoil. Get that right on day one and the doors will still line up in five years.
What delivery to Gatton costs
The cartage component depends on which depot the unit comes out of and what the site needs. We work it out with the quote.
The order of questions is always the same: what is it for, what grade does that need, and can a truck get in.
Nearby towns we cover
We also deliver to Forest Hill, Laidley, Grantham, Withcott, Plainland and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Gatton
Can I come and look at containers near Gatton before I buy one?
Yes. The yard is at Forest Hill, about ten minutes from the centre of Gatton on the Forest Hill Fernvale Road, and the stock sits on hardstand in rows. Ring before you come so someone is there and so we can have the sizes you are interested in where you can get to them. You can open doors, look along the roof seams, check the floor and settle on a specific unit. The one you pick is the one that gets loaded. Weekday mornings are the quietest time to come out.
How fast can you get a container onto a farm near Gatton?
Often the same day if the unit is on the ground, the truck is free and the access is sorted, and the next morning if it is not. Ten minutes of driving does not take much organising. What slows a Gatton delivery down is almost never the distance. It is finding out on arrival that the paddock had water on it this week, or that the gate is narrower than the truck. Answer those two on the phone and this is about as quick as container delivery gets anywhere.
Will a container sit safely on cultivated ground?
It will, provided you put something under the corners. A container carries its weight through the four corner castings, and on deep worked Lockyer soil those corners will press in unevenly over a season if they are sitting straight on dirt. When one corner drops, the frame twists slightly and the doors stop meeting. Scrape back to firm ground and set hardwood sleepers, concrete pads or well-bedded blocks under each corner. It takes twenty minutes at delivery and it is the difference between doors that still line up in five years and doors you have to lift.
Is the yard open on Saturday?
Saturday mornings, 8am to 12pm, and Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5pm. Saturday suits people who cannot get away during the week and it is a reasonable time to come and look at stock, though it is worth ringing ahead either way so we know to expect you and can have units accessible. Deliveries are generally weekday work. If you want to look on a Saturday and have it delivered early the following week, that sequence works well and it is what a lot of local buyers do.
Get a price
Get a delivered price sorted
We deliver to Gatton and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm