/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Craigslist, also make sure you are inside the container when they burry it in, you want to keep an eye out for leaks.

>>1096025

>>1096022
Where can I buy a dull rusty pencil sharpener to peel my fucking eyes out with so I don't have to read these fucking threads every single week.
Why the fuck is shipping containers underground not a lifetime banable offence on this board Jesus titty fucking Christ

>>1096022
Usually you can find them on government auctions, if you can find a shipping company close to you than you can contact them to see about purchasing one that they will be recycling for a low price. possibly look into major recycling centers as well, they might have one there that you could snag.

>>1096049

I got a great recipe for growing crystals if your interested. And a way to make cool color patterns on a spoon.

>>1096087
those crystals wouldnt happen to need copper, a straw, some bleach and amonia followed by you blowing really hard to make Co2 on the pennies anon?

>>1096065
Use filters you dingus

Everyone who wants to bury a container should do so! Follow your dreams and ignore the haters. Your initiative will be rewarded with success!

Numerous containers survived direct hits from 30mm A-10 "Warthog" cannon during the Iraq war. The springy corrugations dissipate energy and the projos bounce off. The immortal Corten steel shells last centuries even without paint, which is only decorative. The US Navy has a fleet of containers at the bottom of the Marianas trench where they dock submarines made from containers for underwater replenishment. Hawaii successfully used lava flow to encase containers to make attractive tourist lodges. Transatmospheric scramjet powered containers have been developed into launch platforms for smaller containers to be used in the post-Brexit EU space containerstation. North Korea replaced their old dug shelters under mountains with containers painted like mountains. (The insides are painted with cute anime characters to boost morale.) Elon Musk prototyped an electric container to replace the Tesla since the container is more aesthetically appealing than the car and has a lot more battery room. The mayor of Detroit has decided to replace his decaying city with containers. The old buildings will be demolished and the rubble hauled off in other containers, loaded onto rafts made of containers, and shipped to China via the St. Laurence seaway where it will be ground up and the metal residue used to make more containers. US Navy SEALS stealthily infiltrate enemy ports using containers cunningly disguised as containers. Israel is solving the Palestinian problem by storing them in containers. (Germany tried to solve the Jewish problem using wooden freight cars, but the container hadn't been invented yet.) Donald Trumps border wall will be easily affordable if built from containers. Any Beaners who slip in by other routes can be detained in containers then trucked to Beanland where containers will be donated as housing.

I want to convert a shipping container into a trailer home. Would it be better to build insulation, piping, and electrical around the container beneath a shell, or inside the container and wall it up with drywall?

>>1096126
Just get a shipping container and place it inside a larger shipping container and put everything in the space in between.

>>1096128
But shipping containers are one size, and this won't solve the heat trap issue where the two containers basically become an oven.

>>1096141
>But shipping containers are one size
You just buy a metric standard shipping container and then find an older imperial standard one. The imperial ones are just a few inches larger in every dimension. When they converted to metric the French just about lost their shit because the numbers weren't divisible by 10, so they rounded down a bit.

>heat trap
That's why you bury it ya dingus!

>>1096022
Follow your dreams

>>1096163
>metric
>numbers weren't divisible by 10

>>1096240
Not without a remainder, obviously, you autist. I'm not even that guy, but jesus...

>>1096241
Nah m8 you're the one missing the point.

What exactly does everyone have against burying shipping containers? Seems like a good idea to me...

>>1096022
OC

>>1096257
Oops, forgot the last part. Follow your dreams OP, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow!

>>1096240\
>Be French
>Convert an imperial measurement to metric
>Oh shit, it's 91.44 centimeters!
>Round it down to 90 cm
>My jobs is done, time for a cigarette break.

>>1096025
This. Mine leaked a little. Make sure and buy a tube of the best waterproof silicone you can find. And wait to dig the escape hatch until AFTER you bury it so u get the size right.

>>1096022
Pic related is cheaper and just as effective.

You'll still get /diy/ credit if you make it out of pallets.

>>1096089

>>1096255
That's why you should definitely do it.

>>1096109
OP here thats the thing these things are durable as fuck. Plus I am going to burry mine in sand not clay, or mud. Doubt any of you anons are mechanical engineers so you doubters need to stfu. I live by the old adage no guts no glory if theres a will theres a way.

No one has answered the main question where can i buy a container and can i get a tractor trailer to bring it to me that has dumb truck function so he can unload it into my hole.

>>1096109
Nice

>>1096300
>where can i buy a container
From someone that sells them, dingus. It's like asking where you can buy a car. There are companies that JUST sell containers and related shit.

>can i get a tractor trailer to bring it to me
Yes. Call up someone that has one and ask if they can deliver it for you. You can't like you've never googled anything before. Jesus.

>>1096022
https://www.google.fi/search?q=continer+for+sale&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&ei=2PpKWMHCIq2r8we-kqngCw#q=container+for+sale

Just add location. Man it's easy. I have two 6m HC. Annoyingly hard to get (as used) over at my location...

corrugated steel pipe.

>>1096126
>>1096141
insulate the outside and do pic related to keep the sun off

>>1096372
3 people sitting in that tin can for 2 weeks. Gonna be fun.

You're better off with a discarded and cleaned petrol tank of the type they bury under gas stations.

>>1096087
I want to make cool color patterns on my spoon! How do?

>>1096374
you can make them bigger than that.

>>1096378
Yes, of course, the more money you blow on it, the nicer one you can build. With enough money you can get even something like >>1092143
The thing is, that tiny can is quite representative of the cold war era personal nuke bunkers.

>>1096300
>OP here thats the thing these things are durable as fuck.

Their durability is highly dependent on load and moisture exposure and age of the container. They aren't as awesome as you think they are. Their awesomeness is logistics awesomeness and "convenient steel SHEET METAL shell" awesomeness.

I have three, two as a shop, and the post you referenced was my sarcastic response to endless container threads. Burial is retarded, but if you want something you can bury, buy a steam cleaned railcar tank hull and have that delivered to your site then have a cutting torch and welding party. Of course you won't do that, but a tank hull (frequently buried by farmers as a very large culvert over which they drive machinery and trucks) handles external loads better and you can use the bottom as a bilge if you live where it rains because you will need some sort of sump and pump arrangement.

>>1096273
Holy fuck lad DROP EM????

>>1096300

>>1096022
use concrete sewer pipe instead. its cheaper per cubic foot of living space and is actually designed to be buried.

>>1096087
>>1096089
>>1096376
I'm probably too late to save idiots, but hey - gotta try.

>>1096448
and of course, who can forget this?

>>1096448
>>1096453
One more.
Thank you, and good-night!

>>1096374
>Gonna be fun.

Probably more fun than sitting outside, if you ever have the need to sit inside of one for 2 weeks.

>>1096455
See, all this does is blast water all over the kitchen. I did this, clamped a spoon to a piece of wood to put some distance between me and it, heated the spoon with an braising torch. Shit didn't even crack. The convex nature of the spoon inherently allows heat stresses to spread out. It's certainly not the explosive disaster this picture implies.

>>1096473
>See, all this does is blast water all over the kitchen.
Didn't know splashes of water require stitches.

What it REALLY does is make the metal in the spoon expand and contract, but super-fast - to the point where the spoon fractures and launches shrapnel everywhere.

People have lost eyes to this you prick.

>>1096477
>What it REALLY does is make the metal in the spoon expand and contract
see
>>1096473
> The convex nature of the spoon inherently allows heat stresses to spread out

But hey, gimme 12 hours and i'll recreate it in a youtube video, clearly metallurgy is not your strong point.

>>1096481
Its supposed to be a funny me-me

>>1096477
> its on 4chan
> there is no way it's incorrect

I have a bridge you might be interested in anon..

>>1096481
>But hey, gimme 12 hours and i'll recreate it in a youtube video
Looking forward to this video. I'm sure there's no way you could tamper with the footage in just 12 hours.

>>1096483
And I've got 1/3 ton of imitation crab meat YOU might be interested in, faggot.

>>1096489
>I'm sure there's no way you could tamper with the footage in just 12 hours.
> implying your images could not have been doctored with completely unrelated injury photos.

Meanwhile, I have a life, I'm about to head out to a race meet, and wont be home till much later in the day. Not all of us are in the basement 24/7 anon.

>>1096490
>implying your images could not have been doctored with completely unrelated injury photos.
They're not even my photos, I grabbed them from Google. Those bastards are going through a lot of trouble just to make sure you don't get cool colors on your spoon then, huh?

>"Meanwhile, I have a life..."
>says a 4chan user
"Racing" to meet the pizza delivery guy at your door isn't a Race Meet, anon.

>>1096493
>"Racing" to meet the pizza delivery guy at your door isn't a Race Meet, anon.

6/10, legitimate chuckle. You're alright kid.

>>1096022
>this thread again
>i'm already dead inside

>>1096453
Why is this happening?

>>1096516
Because dirt is heavy and the only load-bearing points of a shipping container is it's corners. They're meant to stack on top of eachother like bunk-beds but the walls and ceiling are just sheet metal.

These threads could be avoided by a Google search, so we should shred containerposters who clearly don't use a fucking search engine.

Dear stupid motherfuckers. You can have the mancave experience in an ISO container aboveground because THEY LOOK THE SAME FROM THE INSIDE EITHER WAY.

They also function as well as a fallout (not blast, dumbass!) shelter either way. If you are near a nuke target sufficient to NEED a blast shelter, you should fucking move instead.

Berms. What are berms? Well, apparently only G.I.s know what berms do, but they can protect your container against blast and tornado hazards without burying the fucking container. You can do earth by dozer, Hesco (deteriorates over time) or gabions or tire walls packed with sand or combinations of both. For you paranoid fucks who don't believe in mobility and want to defend your fort instead, berms etc provide fighting positions you don't get with burial. If you can't defend your box, some fellow like me will block the exits then pour bleach and ammonia down the vents until you die and then claim your rape dungeon for themselves.

Stupid twats give the ISO containers I love a bad name.

>>1096528
>If you can't defend your box, some fellow like me will block the exits then pour bleach and ammonia down the vents until you die and then claim your rape dungeon for themselves.
Joke's on you, buddy - I LOVE crystals!

>>1096528
Ill defend your moms box if you know what i mean

>>1096022
Use... wait for it... concrete.

>>1096528
>you should fucking move instead.
I'm too poorfag to move.

>>1096555
Since you have nice trips, do you have any cool tricks for pouring cement to form a vaulted ceiling

>>1096109
>tfw burying shipping container threads are so common there's now pasta for them

>>1096574
Ok so what you do is bury a shipping container, you know the ones im talking about? Then you like, use it as some sort of mold... maybe wood would do. Precast then put on top. Like a hat.

>>1096141
Order one of them shipping container stretchers from Harbor Freight.

>>1096141

coming from someone who works with 7 sizes of shipping container every day

Don't pretend talk about shit you know nothing about and assume you're correct

you can get a multitude of shipping container sizes for all kinda of cargo, but you probably wanna go for 8x8x20 for a smaller long term bunker or 8x9x40 for a larger long term

don't buy the smallest container you can find, they get down to 8x8x10 which is fucking tiny

>>1096378
I could spend 2 weeks with her in a bunker quite comfortably.

>>1096141
>But shipping containers are one size
Boy, you don't know shit.

>>1096850
A forty foot or longer High Cube is best value for money from most sellers. The twenty foot standard heights are popular so they are usually about as much as a forty foot standard height.

You can also buy insulated reefer containers for comfort at the cost of reduced internal space.

>>1096574
>pouring cement to form a vaulted ceiling

shotcrete

>>1096850

Why the fuck don't they make larger containers?

In most states you can truck an over sized load up to 16 ft high 76 ft long and 12 ft wide without escort vehicles.

If you are classified as a mobile home you can go even larger without an escort vehicle.

>>1097497
>In most states
They're meant to be hauled all around the world, not just in the US and by truck. And they are not meant to be used as homes, so the US laws for mobile homes are irrelevant.

Here's a business idea for you: start making extra large containers.

>>1096271
well memed

>>1096022

>>1096537
10/10
Can't breathe
Fuck, my sides

I saw a shipping container with some sweet ventilation equipment on top, last week. I think the guy who owns it uses it as storage or man cave. It's also above ground, of course.
I feel like it'd be less expensive to place a container above ground with all your ventilation shit, even if burying it actually yielded the desired results.

>>1098390
heh, /diy/ memes are the best.

>>1096448
>Bubbles
Never saw that before, what's it about?

>>1096537

want to buy a shipping container and turn it into a big pizza oven for a charity. If I installed gas burners, would the shipping container's walls basically deform if I close the doors without vents?

Would I need insulation around or within the container too?

>>1096260
hue

>>1098545
Don't forget to make it lockable so the pizzas can't escape

>>1096300
>dumb truck function so he can unload it into my hole.

>>1096528
>Only g.i.s know what a berm is
That's insulting. I learned about berms from bush hunters in Africa.

>>1097497
>what is intermodality?

The whole point is to have a box that can be moved from a ship to a train to a truck and vice versa using the same systems all over the world. Not to stack the maximum amount of garbage on your hillbilly rig.

>>1097497
>Why the fuck don't they make larger containers?

You could have answered that in seconds with Google.

Why don't you buy a welder and make the structure you want yourself? Lazy cunt. If you seriously want a thing you make shit happen. You can use containers as MODULES, holy fuck!

Buy x number of containers and splice them on the spot. Fucking done. Steel isn't terribly expensive and metal suppliers deliver to jobsites every day.

Get a portable welding machine unless you were smart enough to have shore power available. I used a suitcase feeder and FCAW for the long runs. The usual grinders, saws, consumables and PPE are affordable.

Custom containers exist. Sea Box and other makers will produce them for you if you are rich.

>>1098545
Thought that one through, haven't we?

Here's a useful containerpost.

I haven't finished my copy yet, but an air jack like this is fucking ideal for lifting containers so you can place pipe or other friction-reducing objects underneath to winch it into places you can't get to with a trailer. You can buy air jacks but big rig air springs are much less expensive. I got the same style Goodyear air spring for 150 via Ebay.

http://www.airsprings.cc/Goodyear/3B15-375.pdf

and will fab the base and top in the next couple weeks. Top will have a channel to locate on the lower edge of containers. The hinge arrangement this gent made is ingenious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-GCXT0f60

>>1098975
The oven has to be mobile, which brick ones can't be.

>>1096109
lmao op replied seriously

>>1096372
i'll fill these two semen jars with semen in, like, 2 days.

>>1099022
> which brick ones can't be.

Jesus fuck, did you even Google "mobile pizza oven"? When did /diy/ become /spoonfeed/? SEE THE BRICKS????????? SEE THE WHEELS??????

BRICKS + WHEELS = MOBILE!

https://www.forzaforni.com/product/pizza-trailer

A container is not a catering truck though you could install catering guts inside one fairly easily. You could buy a used catering trailer or truck too.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pizza-trailer

It will be expensive. It must pass inspection. Of course like most containerthread posters you didn't research shit.

Consider a glory hole shipping container instead. You can fit one with restroom partition walls and a cash register. Your assistant can collect the pfennigs while you move from knob to knob. You'll make money and get a hot meal.

>>1099568
A eurostyle trough urinal could catch stray splack to keep it off the floor. Rubber horse stall matting is easy to hose off and makes less noise than a container floor. when walked on. Condom vending machines on the walls would increase revenue. You could post signs saying you are poz to encourage condom sales, and since advertising should be truthful I suggest bugchasing to up your disease count if it's not maxed already.

You could have one booth with a foldout toilet seat as a queening stool and a head-sized hatch so you can duck in from the rear. Hose bibs and soap dispensers could be mounted in recessed boxes so your load wouldn't be overwidth during transport.

>>1099572
A forty foot standard container could fit ten booths across the back. At a pfenning or equivalent per timed interval, say five minutes, you could pay off the principle in a couple of decades then wallow in modest profit.

In fellatio, like aerial combat, "speed is life".

>>1096022
Make sure you put at least 35 feet under ground. Learned that the hard way.

>>1096022
OP could use this as a bunker, just drive it into the hole then call a full one to cover his new home.

>>1099578
Wat dis

>>1099841
portapotties don't clean themselves

>>1099841
A special mobile bunker for people too lazy to internet.

>>1099578
If only I could find that gif of the planet express ship underwater.
Pressure from the outside and pressure on the inside are two entirely different things.

use a series of septic tanks

Now you can shit post in a shit host.

>>1099882
Bolt your toilets upside down against the roof vents, seal buttocks against toilet (use stainless prison shitters) with pressure from a body harness, and as you displace your faecal matter you will suck in fresh air from other vents so long as they aren't too close.

Bonus is outside would look like the geysers at Yellostone, sort of.

>>1096453
lofl

>pleppers

>>1096481
ok post results

>>1099311
>i'll fill these two semen jars with semen in, like, 2 days.

By vomiting Tyrone's creampies into them. At least ur mum will have clean roastie.

>>1099909
My sides, diy and poop never fails.