10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Chinchilla, QLD
Shipping containers Chinchilla
Chinchilla is a long day from the yard. Up over the range or around on the bypass, then west through the grain country with the highway running dead straight in front of you. That distance is the honest constraint here. It is also the reason we plan these deliveries properly rather than treating them as a run to the next town over.
- Delivered from
- Loaded at the Lockyer yard for the long run west on the Warrego
- Typical lead time
- Usually four to seven business days, and we group loads heading that way
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; 40ft on a side loader, and on a long western run it often makes sense to send two units on the one trip
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
First, the things that are specific to here.
What they get used for around here
Around Chinchilla we deliver containers for melon and horticulture storage through the season, covering bins, picking gear, irrigation fittings and shade cloth, grain and chemical on the cropping blocks, laydown, tool and site storage for the gas industry work around the district, feedlot and cattle gear, workshop space on rural blocks a long way from the nearest hardware store, and secure storage for contractors working out of town for months at a stretch.
What the driver needs from the site
Two soils meet around Chinchilla and they behave nothing alike. The black cracking clay of the Western Downs runs through most of the cropping country and does what it does everywhere out here: carries anything when dry, turns to grease and putty when wet, and shuts access down for days rather than hours after a decent fall. Closer to the Condamine and through the melon country there is lighter sandy and red loam soil, which is the reason melons grow there in the first place. Sand drains fast and comes good quickly, but it is soft, and a loaded truck on dry deep sand can dig itself in just as effectively as one on wet clay. Two very different problems, and the answer to both is knowing which one you have before the truck leaves. Distance shapes everything else. This is not a run where a truck can come back tomorrow if something is wrong, so we do the checking up front. Gate width, the surface from the gate to the spot, overhead lines, tree limbs, whether there is anywhere to turn around, and whether the ground has had rain on it in the last week. Photos of the approach sent through beforehand save more grief on a Chinchilla delivery than on any other page of this site. Harvest and the industrial work in the district both put pressure on the roads at particular times of year, and the highway west of Dalby carries a lot of heavy vehicles that are not out there for the scenery. None of that stops a delivery. It just means an early start and a realistic window rather than a promise of an exact time. Where a job is going onto a work site rather than a farm, the site rules generally decide the answer, and it is worth putting us in touch with whoever runs the gate before the day.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Chinchilla
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
Chinchilla
Why we group loads heading west
Chinchilla is far enough from the yard that a single container on a truck is an inefficient way to move it, and the efficiency or otherwise of that trip ends up in your quote. So we plan western runs rather than improvising them. If there is another job going out the same week, your unit rides with it. If you want two units, they usually go together, and that is a better outcome than two separate trips a fortnight apart. Ordering with a week or so of notice, rather than needing it on Thursday, is the single thing that makes the most difference to what a Chinchilla delivery costs and how quickly it happens.
Freight to the Western Downs is quoted with the container rather than published, because it genuinely depends: how far past town you are, whether the last stretch is sealed, what has to be sent to do the job, and whether we can pair the trip with something else going the same way. One phone call gets you an exact number for your address rather than a range that turns into a different number later. Container prices we are happy to talk about openly. The truck is the part that changes with every single job, and pretending otherwise would only mean quoting you twice.
On the ground
Melon country, and the storage the season needs
Melons made this town's name and the season they run on is short and intense. When picking is on, everything is needed at once and there is nowhere to put anything. When it is over, there is a paddock full of bins, shade cloth, poly, fittings, sprayers and picking gear that has to survive until next year. Sunlight is the enemy in that gap. Poly pipe, drip tape, tarps and shade cloth degrade far faster sitting in the open through a Western Downs summer than they do in use, and replacing them is a real cost against a crop that has already been paid for once.
A container parked at the end of the packing area fixes that and does two other things as well. It gives you somewhere lockable for the gear that tends to walk, and it gives you a dry, vermin-resistant space without adding another permanent building to the yard. If it is going to hold anything that gasses off, or anything that has been put away with moisture still in it, get extra vents fitted at the yard before it goes out. Vents high in the side walls cost very little while the unit is in front of us and are an awkward job once it is sitting on your block, three hundred kilometres away.
Worth knowing
What to buy when the nearest replacement is a long way off
Distance should change what you buy. Close to a yard, a marginal container is a recoverable mistake, because we come back and swap it. Three hundred kilometres out, the same mistake costs a day of everybody's time, so the sensible play at this distance is to buy a grade above what you think you need. Cargo-worthy is the working standard: units assessed as fit to carry freight at sea, and every cargo-worthy container we send out is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard. One-trip units are close enough to new and are what people choose when the container is going somewhere it will be looked at, or is going to be cut into later. As-is units are cheaper for a reason, because they are sold in the condition they stand in and they are not sold as watertight, and while they suit plenty of jobs, sending one on a long haul to store something that matters is a false economy.
What delivery to Chinchilla costs
Delivery is priced with the container, not separately and not off a list. One phone call gets you the real number for your address.
Ring us, tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and we will tell you which grade and which truck the job needs before anyone talks money.
Nearby towns we cover
We also deliver to Miles, Wandoan, Brigalow, Kogan, Tara and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Chinchilla
How far ahead should we order a container for Chinchilla?
A week or so of notice makes a real difference. This is a long run west and we plan those trips rather than improvising them, so notice lets your unit ride with another job going the same way, which is quicker for you and cheaper. Urgent is still possible. It just means a truck making the trip for one container. If you know a container is coming in the next month, ring now and take a date. Order it on the Wednesday you need it and you are effectively paying for the whole truck.
Can we get two containers delivered on one trip?
Usually, and out here it is well worth doing. Sending two units on a single western run is a far better outcome than two separate trips, and if a neighbour or somebody else in the district is buying at the same time it is worth mentioning, because pairing loads is straightforward when we know about it in advance and impossible once a truck has already gone. Tell us at the quote stage rather than after the first one is on the ground and we will build the run around it.
Will a container sit properly on sandy melon country?
It will, but sand behaves differently to clay and it needs a slightly different answer. Sand drains beautifully and comes good within a day of rain, which is a real advantage out here. What it does not do is spread a point load, so a corner casting sitting straight on dry deep sand will keep working its way in. Use wide bearing under the corners rather than small pads: full-length hardwood sleepers, or a decent concrete pad at each corner. Scrape back to firmer material first if there is any, and check it again after the first wet.
Can you deliver to a work camp or laydown yard around Chinchilla?
Yes. Site deliveries out here are routine and the site itself normally sets the terms: induction requirements, delivery windows, whether a crane or telehandler is available on site, and where the unit is allowed to sit. Give us a contact for whoever controls the gate and we will arrange it with them directly. If the unit is going to be moved around the site, or on to the next job afterwards, say so when you order, because the condition of the frame and corner castings matters much more for a container that gets lifted often.
Get a price
Tell us what has to fit in it
We deliver to Chinchilla and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm