Container Features, Cost, and Future Plans

here's what we have this is a nine foot six inch high eight foot wide shipping container it's 40 feet long now this is not a single trip type shipping container okay the price of this was thousand seven hundred bucks used to be two or three years ago you could buy these things for three thousand dollars all day long but the cost of steel and the availability of these shipping containers is going down down down so i had to kind of pay through the nose to get it however when i get done with it i'll easily be able to sell it and or we'll take these trusses over here and we're going to build a sawmill shed right here probably so i've got a little bit of work to do on my end this fellow that brought these out it's from he's got a ranch called harris ranch so he farms ranches and he does this on the side to help make up the money you got to diversify if you've got a farm what we got here i've gotta raise this up on some blocks and we'll get it up off the ground so we don't get condensation from the difference in temperature and humidity from the ground to the inside of the container so there's some work that i'll have to do you'll see that stuff in a future video there's also a specific way that you have to open and close the door pretty simple you just pull both handles at the same time open this side then pull both handles on the other side if you order a shipping container like this you need to make sure that it's fairly level this way left to right okay it doesn't matter so much that it's level that direction you want it to slope about two degrees towards the door so that water doesn't pool up down there and you start getting rust through and you get leaks so this material is most likely not american steel okay so this is what we'd call chineseium i guess but it is providing american jobs as you can see so all the information here and this fella provided me a warranty uh with no leaks no issues like that tells you exactly how much it weighs eight thousand five hundred and fifty pounds it's a heavy heavy piece so if you don't have a tractor or a heavy piece of equipment to move this you may wanna pay the extra cost and i think he charges around three or four hundred bucks to level it or whoever you have bring a shipping container to your place that's what they're gonna charge you so um i can do it myself and it'll also give us some fun content showing you how to level this up this is gonna make an awesome shed for the uh sawmill so we'll come off the top…