Unboxing and Reviewing Farm Jacks

tools out get busy so what do you need to know about a shipping container what you need to know is all of the weight bearing members of a shipping container are on the corners that is weight bearing that corner is weight bearing and the other two corners are weight-bearing this i-beam that runs the length of the shipping container supports the weight it does not need to be supported you don't have to put any supports in the center or any on the top there's a beam across the top there's a beam right down here the walls are weak so if you're considering burying one of these think again because it's super super dangerous these walls cannot support any type of movement inward or outward in other words it will collapse on itself if you bury it you run a very high risk of it collapsing the idea here is to take these two farm jacks and jack it up and get it level and set it on four of these six inch cap blocks on each corner that's the idea here now we might end up needing six in a low spot we might end up needing only two in a high spot i would say at the very least we'll need three the problem we have to run into and we may run into this with this building is that when you set the building down on these corners this full eight thousand five hundred and fifty pounds is going to grind into that cap block which often times will split cap blocks so i have extras in other words i bought 26 cap blocks i probably will only need