Up through the hills north of Lismore, in country that is steep, beautiful and genuinely difficult to get a truck around. Nimbin is the postcode where we most often recommend a smaller container than the one you rang about.
Across Nimbin the common uses are storage and workshop space on hinterland and multiple-occupancy blocks, tools and materials for long-running owner-build projects, produce, seed and equipment storage on the small farms, community and market equipment, and secure storage on properties a long way from anything else. Different jobs, same conversation: which grade, what size, and whether your ground and your approach suit a tilt-tray or a crane truck.
We will be straight about grade. As-is is a cheaper box with known faults, not a bargain cargo-worthy, and it is not sold watertight. Request photographs of the container allocated to you and they arrive before 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 |
Ex GST guide prices, not a quote. A quote takes about five minutes on the phone. Haulage to Nimbin is worked out before you agree to anything, not after the truck rolls.
It is unusual for a supplier to talk you down a size, so here is the reasoning. On a Nimbin block the constraint is never the amount of land. It is the last two kilometres of track.
A 20ft container on a tilt-tray is a long rigid load that needs a run to line up and firm ground to reverse over. On a switchbacked gravel drive with a creek crossing and a washout, that is often simply not available. A 10ft is a much shorter load, turns far more tightly, and gets onto blocks a 20ft cannot reach at all.
Yes, a 10ft costs more than a 20ft, for reasons explained on the size page — they are cut down and rebuilt rather than manufactured at that length. That is genuinely annoying and it is still the right buy when the alternative is a container that never arrives. Where two boxes are needed, two 10fts or a 10ft and a 20ft placed on different visits is often more achievable than one large unit.
If your track is better than that, tell us and we will send the bigger box. We would rather ask than assume.
A lot of land up here is held as multiple occupancy or reached by a driveway that several properties use. That raises two practical questions before a truck is booked.
The first is turning space. A rigid truck that drives in has to get out again, and reversing two kilometres down a gravel switchback is not something any driver will do. Somewhere to turn — a clearing, a wide bend, a level pad — needs to exist and we will ask about it.
The second is simple courtesy and timing. If the access is shared, letting the other households know a truck is coming avoids the situation where the vehicle is halfway in and meets something coming the other way on a road with no passing place. Both of those are easy to sort in advance and impossible to sort at the time.
This is the hardest general access on our run and it is worth being direct about it. The roads in climb, narrow and switch back, and many of the blocks up here are reached by long shared or unformed driveways that were made by whoever needed them rather than designed. Add heavy canopy, gravel that washes after rain, and creek crossings that are fine in a ute and a completely different question under a loaded truck. The practical consequence is a size limit: a 40ft is out on most of these properties, a 20ft is possible on many and marginal on some, and a 10ft will get almost anywhere. Shared access on multiple-occupancy land is worth raising early too, because a truck needs somewhere to turn around and that is often a conversation with neighbours rather than with us. Give us the address and, ideally, photographs of the worst part of the track. We will tell you honestly what will get there rather than book something that will not.
Three things decide every delivery anywhere: width at the pinch point, length of the run-in, and what hangs above the spot. Measure the first, pace the second, look up for the third — see the access guide.
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Describe what is going inside. That is a much faster conversation than a spec table.