RedFox's going-away party... ;]

[toothy]

We had a crane lift ours on both ends of the trip. The guy in South Carolina lifted it and hauled it 40+ miles to the rail head for $600. I called a company here in Seward and the girl ball parked, picking it up and setting it down, at $300, that sounded good and from 5000 miles away getting a local to handel it was even better. The thing shows up and the price wound up in another ball park $1300 and some change. That was a fine welcome to Seward!

The big semi drop tail roll back trailers could unload it but the winches couldn't winch it up loaded. The crane keeps jostling to a minimum, and is ok if you get a hard and fast quote.

Angoon So the is out of the bag now! That is right on the way to most everywhere

Wade

[rogerbum]

Was getting my hair cut today and picked up a copy of Wallpaper magazine (a high-end foo-foo design mag) - what'd I see? A bunch of container "houses" outfitted by interior designers with multi-1000$ chairs etc... Didn't look like anything Mr. Red Fox would do . However, got me to wondering about how many projects had been built with containers. A google on (shipping container house) yeilded many interesting links to all kinds of houses/apts/buildings etc that had been made with shipping containers - some very nice - fun to look at - for many examples see http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm. Might give the fox some new ideas....

Roger on the SeaDNA

[flagold]

and to think 30 years ago an aquaintance of mine came up with the idea of using old shipping containers as the ready solution to low income housing in poor countries and drew up plans and built a working model with toilet, bedroom, and the whole 9 yards (a really fine home it made). Of course the idea was rejected and he was promptly drummed out of the government as a heartless lunatic by the PC police . . .

[Redƒox]

HolyCamoly!! (again ) Thnx fer that link, now ya just confirmed ideas I had on the back-burner Too Cool Thats gotta be THE truest form of "recycling" there is... no need to waste energy melting-down steel there. So, whats up with the abundance of them anyway? I noticed some get retired at 15 years (like mine) and some get put out-to-pasture at a much younger life: 5 years (too banged-up I'm guessing, for the "younger ones") Next time I want me a nice shinny-new-purdy-one though grindin-off rust is sort of hard on an old-fellers back

No: it's not "Angoon" though we still might consider that.... I wonder if they let "container peep" move in there

Flagold: Your friend was just way ahead of his time the world is a crapy place for very smart 'peep at times i remember hearing about how good it is for you to dwell in steel, rather than wood sumpin ta-do with electrolysis i think. I know it's great for gardens Plants can't be wrong .. come on

[Larry H]

Greg,

Ocean shipping containers must be recertified every 5 years to be shipped by ocean container ships. If the container is too beat up or there is no demand they are sold instead of being refurbished.

I bought a refurbished (repainted) and recertified 40ft at a used container price because the company decided to sell all containers older than 10 years.

The USA is a net importer of consumer stuff so more containers arrive in the US than are filled and shipped out. This means that surplus containers are stacking up at ports all over our country.

[Redƒox]

Makes perfect sense to how you get so smart anyway Come to think about it; I saw a yard full of them things when we were in Wrangel, they were "for sale" Also saw this gigantic garage made of stacks of them. To bad I didn't get a pic

OK, here's a little more "entertainment" for all you Can People out there (hehehe )

http://www.msnusers.com/SoundDreams/crap.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=490

[Redƒox]

OK OK ... out with it here's the completion (I think ) of the "can" hehehe

http://www.msnusers.com/SoundDreams/crap.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=491