Shipping containers Grafton

Common uses in and around town

Around Grafton we deliver containers for wire, posts and strainers on the cattle country through the Orara and up the Summerland Way, chains, saws and gear for the timber blocks, dry storage for cane and small crops downriver, tools and materials for the trades working the valley, machinery parts on properties where the nearest replacement is a long drive and a long wait, and lockable storage for households and businesses who would rather have their things up high than merely behind a locked door.

What the driver needs from the site

The first question on a Grafton delivery is which side of the river the address is on, because it changes the run in and sometimes changes the truck. South Grafton is the working side — the industrial land, the saleyards, wide entries and hardstand, and about as straightforward a drop as we do anywhere. North across the water, the older Grafton grid is a different job. The streets are generous by nineteenth-century standards and tight by truck standards, and they are lined with mature jacarandas and camphors that hang low enough to matter to a lifted tilt bed. Those trees are part of why people live there, so we work around them rather than through them, which sometimes means a crane lift from the street instead of threading a truck down a driveway. The bridges shape the run too: the newer crossing carries the heavy traffic and the older one is narrow, so where a truck goes over is not always where a car would. Off the town grid, the river flats are alluvial silt — deep, fertile and completely reliable when dry, and capable of swallowing a rear axle after a wet week. Southgate, Cowper, Ulmarra and the farm country downriver are all that ground, reached by roads with a levee bank on one side and a drain on the other, and it is worth knowing which paddock gate is on firm approach before the truck arrives rather than after. West and south, out through Coutts Crossing, the Orara Valley and the Gwydir climb toward the range, it becomes proper rural access: long unsealed driveways, grids of unknown rating, culvert crossings that have been in the ground thirty years, cattle on the road, and turning space at the far end that has to be genuinely truck-sized rather than optimistic. Photos from the gate and from the spot itself settle nearly all of it in one phone call.

What delivery to Grafton costs

We do not publish a delivery rate for this area, because a straightforward industrial drop and a tight residential one on the same street are not the same job. Ring and you will get an exact number.

We would rather ask two more questions on the phone than send the wrong container up the road.

Other places on this run

We also deliver to South Grafton, Junction Hill, Ulmarra, Maclean, Coutts Crossing and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.