Beef country, flat ground and the easiest deliveries on our run. If you have a Casino address and half a paddock, this is about as uncomplicated as buying a container gets.
Most of what heads out to Casino ends up as farm and station storage on the cattle blocks in every direction, feed, fencing and chemical storage, machinery and workshop storage, trade storage for builders working through town, stock and equipment storage for the businesses around the saleyards and the processing works, and hay and equipment storage on the smaller blocks along the river. Same approach every time: describe the use, describe the site, and we will tell you what suits and what it lands at delivered to Casino.
Worth saying on grade — as-is units are cheaper and are not sold watertight, and we tell you what is wrong with a specific one before you buy it. Want to see it first? Ask, and photographs go out before the delivery.
| Size | Used from | New from | Hire from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 | POA |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 | $27/wk |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 | POA |
Guide figures only, ex GST — ring and we will price the specific unit rather than the category. Transport out to Casino is folded into the quote rather than left hanging as a variable.
Most of what we send to Casino goes onto a rural block, and rural container jobs have their own logic. The size question is usually settled by what is being stored rather than by what will fit, because the ground is not the constraint. That is why this postcode buys more 40ft units proportionally than anywhere else we deliver — for a hay shed's worth of gear or a machinery store, the cost per cubic metre is unanswerable.
The second difference is placement. A container on a farm is going where it is useful rather than where it is tidy — near the yards, near the workshop, near the gate the truck comes in. Worth thinking about the day you might want it moved, because a container placed behind a shed that has since had a lean-to added is a container that is staying there.
The third is chemical. Farm chemical storage has rules attached and a bunded, ventilated, correctly signed unit is the cheapest way most properties get compliant. Tell us the classes and the quantities and we will tell you what the unit needs to have rather than guessing at it.
Casino's town work is the ordinary mix — trades storing tools and materials, businesses storing stock, households between houses or emptying a place for a renovation. What makes it easy is the street grid. Wide, flat, generous verges, and blocks with room down the side.
The saleyards and processing end of town generates its own steady demand for lockable storage, as does the constant maintenance and contract work around the rail and the highway.
The one thing worth saying about town blocks here: because access is easy, people tend not to think about ground preparation, and ground preparation matters just as much on an easy delivery as a hard one. Pads or sleepers under the four corners, on ground that will not settle unevenly, with a slight fall away from the door end. It takes an hour and it is the difference between doors that shut in five years and doors that do not.
Casino is genuinely straightforward and it is a pleasure to say so. The town grid is wide, the streets are flat, the blocks are generous, and there is nearly always somewhere for a truck to line up. Rural properties in every direction from town are the same story — wide gates, long paddock tracks and enough level ground to place a 40ft without cutting a bench first, which is why a much higher share of the big units we sell go to this postcode than to anywhere on the coast. The two things worth checking are both about wet weather. Black soil country west and south of town turns to grease after rain and a loaded truck will not go where a ute will. And the paddock track that has been fine all winter may not be trafficable after a fortnight of it. If it has been raining, ring and talk about timing rather than pushing a truck onto ground that will not carry it — a bogged truck is a bad day for everyone and it is nearly always avoidable.
Common to every job wherever it is: something firm underneath, enough length to line up, and open air above the placement. Where that is in doubt we would rather look at photographs than guess. Full detail in getting a container onto your block.
Grade, size and access for your Casino address, in about five minutes on the phone.