Benefits of Containers and Crucial Safety Warning Against Burying Them

this large of a capacity so you gotta think you can buy a building like this for sixty five hundred to seven thousand dollars you can put up a carport like we have over here for about forty five hundred to sixty five hundred dollars or you can put a garage in like we've got down at the lower part of the farm but you don't get a solid floor so there's no solid floor in that one over there this seems to be the best option for storage on the farm we can fill this with hay tools equipment a small tractor will fit in there zero turn atv all that stuff will fit right in here and it's a lockable securable moisture free environment so something to consider also don't bury one okay so i was talking to this fella and he does this for a living he does it every single day do not do not do not bury yourself a coffin okay a 40-foot shipping container should not be buried without severe reinforcement the sides and roof will cave in and he said he's seen it many many times it is super super dangerous so don't bury one of these if you're thinking about building yourself a bunker of some sort don't do it with a 40-foot shipping container he said he's seen people do it successfully with a 20-footer after they've reinforced it but he didn't recommend it at all because this steel is not super super strong we're going to put some heavy duty paint on this and this will be used basically there's ibm construction there's the i-beam runs across the bottom i-beam across the top and all the weight is supported by these piers or pillars on the end the center section right here is only supported by the metal that's on the outside so don't bury it okay i know i thought about it you've thought about it probably if you're watching this video don't bury it guys i hope you learned a little bit of something about shipping containers and what you need to know in case you're thinking about getting one for your property for your farm for your backyard for whatever thanks a lot guys appreciate you coming to the stoney ridge farm please pound that like button jump in subscribe the channel i'd love to have you back we got a lot more work to do see you next