On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Or there is always the option of getting old Freight
containers (the type
they use on cargo ships).
I don't have much to add - but my father uses 40' shipping containers for
storage back in New Zealand (mostly for cars, but I think his set of RP04s
are stored in one at the moment). He paid about $3000NZ for each
container, which were both a little rusty but still completely waterproof.
If memory serves he flattened the land with a payloader to compact it,
laid a simple cinderblock foundation, and filled in the rest of the area
with gravel to provide water drainage and then just set the containers on
the cinderblocks to keep them a few inches above the ground.
He's quite pleased with them - but his property is fairly heavy with
trees, so it's not as obvious that he has a couple rows of rather ugly
rust red shipping containers from the road.
Anyways, for what it's worth.