Sea Container Cabin

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I seen this also Longarm, I think there is one like it finished on the web somewhere here in Arkansas, and it has the same round cut out walk threw as this one, but they put it on top of a burned out small home basement up in northwest Arkansas in the hills.
I have seen a hunting cabin blue prints some where in advertising in a paper that they will set up and install as well .
 
Theres a 2 story house a couple of blocks from me on what was considered an unbuildable lot because it is so narrow and there are prefab trim kits for joining "cans "or cutting in doors and windows , they are built to be stacked like 10 high when full of freight and they are made from a special grade of steel to keep them from rusting at sea making them super durable and pretty cheap as well . I see them up here for about 3-4k for clean used big one and have been thinking of flying a couple into a lot I have that has no road access instead of laying out the cost to put in a 400+ ft driveway through an easement . Google container homes and you will find all kinds of plans and pics from many architects .
 
I've got 3 shipping containers I use for extra storage (note; when building your next shop, make it twice as big as you think you will need!). The one thing with containers that I have a problem with is they can sweat. Only one of mine sweats, and it literally rains inside there :violent1: The other two are under / behind the shadow of my shop, and they don't sweat at all, ever. But when it's cold overnight, then the sun comes out the next morning, that's when the one in the sun 'rains' inside. If you insulated them they probably won't do that.

The house / shelter idea has been around for quite a while, but the first one I heard of was one that my wife's cousin made over in Saipan. They were the envy of the neighborhood!

A buddy of mine uses one for storage on his vacant land over in eastern Oregon. They are very secure, but Last year it was broken into and they stole his new quad four wheeler.
 
A lot of people in storm zones are using those. Burying them halfway in the ground securing them to concrete footers and they are slap tornado PROOF. Pretty smart really.
 
This was a no income housing idea of mine 20 years ago when I saw them stacked 20 high and 50 across behind a salvage yard, there were hundreds of them (well that would make a thousand...) all empty. My Church travels and builds a 10X10 house in Tijuana every spring and every family is drop dead grateful for it. Sure beats living in a lean-to made of cardboard. Covered bridge is a neat idea.
Here is a nice one...
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I've looked into some, one issue not talked about often is the amount of haz-mat material transported in them and how often they peg the air meter with decontaminated left over junk

Have seen pics of really neat ones though however
 
RustyRatRod said:
A lot of people in storm zones are using those. Burying them halfway in the ground securing them to concrete footers and they are slap tornado PROOF. Pretty smart really.
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too poor here for such, we just take a shovel and dig a hole big enough... called a scared'y hole!! LOL

but I have a lime sink half way down the hill... I tell her to head there... move the old pallets, scrap iron, tin cans, and whatever, and make a nest! if the tornado is catching up, ya just got to run faster!?????
 
memike said:
I seen this also Longarm, I think there is one like it finished on the web somewhere here in Arkansas, and it has the same round cut out walk threw as this one, but they put it on top of a burned out small home basement up in northwest Arkansas in the hills.
I have seen a hunting cabin blue prints some where in advertising in a paper that they will set up and install as well .
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Any idea where it was in NWA? It's probably a stones throw from me
 
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