Final Adjustments, Level Verification, and Interior Tour

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Leveling MASSIVE shipping container get's interesting!

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What happens here

After successfully placing all concrete blocks, the presenter demonstrates releasing the farm jacks. This involves raising the handle slightly, flipping the reversing latch, and then lowering the handle in controlled motions. Once the jacks are fully lowered and the container rests on the blocks, he removes the jacks. He confirms the container is level, noting a slight intended tilt of about two inches from back to front and one inch side to side for proper drainage, ensuring water won't pool inside. He then opens the container doors, showing the spacious interior and the existing vents. He stresses the benefits of dry, mouse-proof, and bug-proof storage.

Goal: Safely lower the container, verify its level and drainage, and showcase the finished result.

Tools and materials

Spirit Level — Verifying the container's level and tilt
Strongway 3 1/2 Ton Farm Jack Strongway — Lowering the container

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this has been more of a challenge than i thought it would be i've got the last jack on here i'm gonna let it down and we broke one of the jacks i'll show you yeah all right i told you guys i'd show you this is the result of movement lateral movement so in other words the whole container tried to shift that way while it was jacked up the board broke right here you can see when that board gave way so did the jack you can see how it bowed right there pretty lucky it didn't slip off the jack these things happen you don't do anything you don't break anything oh my goodness this was a job uh only took me about an hour to get this done i'll show you guys the results of what i did so with a shipping container like this you don't want it to be twisted if it's twisted when you get ready to open the doors and we're going to go inside this thing so hang around when it's twisted or tweaked slightly the doors will not open properly and i'll show you how the doors open on one of these shipping containers what i ended up doing was two blocks on the upper side and three blocks on the lower side i wanted a slight slope towards the door in other words if it ever were to spring a leak we don't want water to pool up in the back we want water to roll out the front so if there ever were a leak it is slightly tilted that direction so very cool leveled it up nice i think will be just right for installing the building let's let you guys take a look at the blocks that i'm sitting it on so i didn't need all the cap blocks that i bought which is awesome i can take some of those back or use them around the farm you can see triple stacked right here uh double stacked here but actually used a two inch cap block underneath this uh six inch cap block so that did good didn't bust any blocks same thing down here and i've got to get back here with the bucket on the tractor clean all this up what you want to do you've got to get these shipping containers up off the ground and again two cap blocks here we already knew that this end was higher than that end down there and then three right there so looks great level straight awesome let's open her up and show you guys how this works okay when you open up a shipping container you pretty much have to open both of these at the same time all right we'll open our own up may have moisture in here already i don't know let's go in and check it out nice very nice awesome this is a huge amount of space this is probably the cheapest way to get a large…

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