General So, my buddy and I are building a shop.
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@MountainMedic - give Life Uncontained a look on YouTube. A couple who built a container home and then a container cabin. Lots of really interesting and helpful information in their episodes that might give you some ideas.
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After years spent not knowing what to do with our lives, we have finally decided to chase what makes us happy. Inspired by our past road trips, the hippies of the seventies, and the alien, Elon Musk, we are choosing to risk everything. We are selling our traditional home, quitting our current...
If I had enough property I would have 3-4 of those storage containers, maybe stacked in some sort of formation.The Adventures of Rowdy and the Mountain man(tm)
Someday
I was thinking 2-3 on the ground with a drive thru carport thru the middle, with a second floor that had two short ones and two long ones making a square and having the middle area of that square enclosed and also two decks on either side of the upper square with a nice dedicated BBQ area on one of them.
STORETRON
I want to bury Juan or two.
Next property....
In the morning we're welding the tabs on and securing them to the cement footers. I'll try to get some pics.
probably gonna also have a observatory deck up top with a steel shade structure two hammocks and a 60 cal turret
In like 10 years I could and will pull something off with them containers and it will be fun
I have about 10 years left in the City and then I'm out
Maybe 5 years if I'm lucky
Can't wait to see pictures, sounds like a great project and learning experience.
Burying one as a root cellar sounds great
Or string a few together as an underground bunker like Rambo 5
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So, here's the progress today.
Grinding, drilling, and priming these fuckers too way longer than expected.
But we got into a groove.
Then we did some hole making in concrete.
My HD drill got real hot.
Gonna pick up a slightly larger masonry bit to auger out the 1/2" holes in the morning, we need room for the epoxy in the holes to truly grab the all thread.
That's all the progress today, tommorrow they'll be basically welded to the ground.
Grinding, drilling, and priming these fuckers too way longer than expected.
But we got into a groove.
Then we did some hole making in concrete.
My HD drill got real hot.
Gonna pick up a slightly larger masonry bit to auger out the 1/2" holes in the morning, we need room for the epoxy in the holes to truly grab the all thread.
That's all the progress today, tommorrow they'll be basically welded to the ground.
Oh yeah, got stung in the lip by a beer can bee too. Caught me slippin...
Had half a duck lip for a while. About to take a second benadryl.
Finally stopped burning about an hour ago.
Had half a duck lip for a while. About to take a second benadryl.
Finally stopped burning about an hour ago.
How much had the concrete cured?
Rebar in that slab? size of rebar?
2 braces or 3 per corner?
Good progress MM
That's what it "felt" like. My bro swore "can't hardly tell".
Not sure if he was being legit or if it was just funnier that way.
Had a speech impediment for about 3 hours, lol, sounded like the kid from fat Albert. Obey Kaybe
No rebar, 16" deep trenches, we let it cure 12 days before weight bearing.
EDIT- No slab, just trenched perimeter.
That is plenty strong
Very interesting project to me
do you have the 8.7' or 9.6' height storage containers?
Wait, there's no rebar at all? Did you add fiber mesh to the mix?
Tall boys, 9.6 X 40
Those are big boys, very tall if you take advantage of that height with some racks or something
I barely fill 45% of the one I am renting.