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
Gympie, QLD
Shipping containers Gympie
Gympie is the closest town on this list to our Forest Hill yard and one of the more interesting to deliver into. The trip is short. The last few hundred metres are frequently not. This is a town built across hills above a river that floods badly and often, and both of those facts shape where a container should go far more than the trucking does.
- Delivered from
- Loaded at the Forest Hill yard and run north up the Bruce
- Typical lead time
- Usually two to four business days
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft, which suits the short steep driveways here; side loader for 40ft on rural blocks with room
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.
Worth knowing before you order.
Where they end up in this district
Around Gympie we deliver containers for chainsaws, felling gear and machinery parts on the forestry and timber blocks, fencing, water fittings and feed on the small cattle and horse properties, tools and materials for the trades working across the region, storage lifted well above where the Mary has reached, machinery spares on the rural blocks out toward Kilkivan and Imbil, boat and fishing gear for people running to Tin Can Bay, and household storage during a build on an acreage block.
What the driver needs from the site
Gympie is hilly in a way that maps do not convey. The residential streets climb and drop sharply, driveways come off them at severe angles, and a good number of them turn hard within a few metres of the street. A tilt-tray unloading a container needs both a run of length and a reasonably consistent grade, and a driveway that pitches up steeply then breaks over a crest will ground the deck. That is the single most common reason a Gympie delivery needs rethinking, and it is entirely predictable from a photo. Where the driveway will not work, the usual answers are a smaller unit, a placement closer to the street, or a lift from a position the truck can actually stand on. What does not work is optimism on the day, because a truck committed to a steep narrow driveway with a container on the back has very few options left. Out of town the character changes completely. The rural and forestry country around Gympie has long entries, gates, grids and unsealed tracks, and the ground is generally decent where it is formed and unreliable where it is not. Timber country tracks are often steep, off-camber and cut into the side of a hill, with a soft outside edge that has never carried anything as heavy as a loaded rigid. Creek crossings on those tracks come up quickly in a wet spell and drop just as fast. Rain is the recurring variable. The Mary catchment gets serious falls and the district goes from firm to unworkable in a day. We would rather move a Gympie date by forty-eight hours than put a truck somewhere it will cut ruts into a track you have to maintain.
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 Gympie
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
Gympie
The town that floods, and the ground above it
Gympie floods more often and more severely than almost anywhere else in this part of the state, and the town has an unusually clear collective memory of exactly how high the water got and when. That local knowledge is more useful than any general advice we could give, so bring it to the conversation. What we will be straight about is what a container contributes. It keeps rain off from above and it locks. It does not resist rising water. Floodwater reaches the door seals and gets inside, and an empty unit will float and be moved by deep water.
The value here is entirely in placement. A container sitting above the level water has reached on your property keeps what is in it dry, and given the terrain in Gympie there is often somewhere on a block that is genuinely well above the risk. Working out where that is, and whether a truck can reach it, is the conversation worth having before ordering rather than after. Sometimes the good high spot is not truck-accessible and the answer becomes a smaller unit or a different approach, and it is better to know that early.
On the ground
Hills, hairpins and short steep driveways
The gradient problem in Gympie is not usually about power, it is about geometry. A tilt-tray needs to raise its deck to slide a container off, and it needs the ground behind it to be reasonably continuous while it does. A driveway that climbs hard from the street and then breaks over a crest, or one that turns sharply within a truck length of the road, does not offer that. The deck grounds, or the trailer cannot get square to the drop point, or there is no way to reverse back out afterwards.
There are good answers and they all start with knowing in advance. A 10ft or 20ft on a smaller truck manages a lot of these driveways that a 40ft could never attempt. A crane lift from the street works where there is somewhere to stand and nothing overhead. Placing the unit lower down the block and accepting a longer walk is sometimes simply the sensible trade. Send photos of the driveway from the street and from the top before you order, and we will tell you which of those it is.
Worth knowing
Timber country, small farms and gear that lives outdoors
The country around Gympie is a mix of forestry, small grazing blocks, horse properties and lifestyle acreage, and the storage need it produces is consistent: a lot of valuable equipment that currently lives under a tarp, in the back of a ute, or in a shed that ran out of room. Chainsaws and felling gear, fencing materials, water and irrigation fittings, feed, tack, tools and machinery parts. A container takes all of it off the ground and puts a lock on it, which is worth a great deal on a block that is empty during the day. The practical decisions that matter are where it sits and which way the doors face. On sloping ground the unit has to be properly levelled on bearers or pads under the corner castings, because a container out of level twists the frame and the doors start to bind within a season. Doors should face the way you will approach with a ute or a tractor, not the direction that happened to suit the delivery truck. Both are trivial to get right at placement and a genuine nuisance to fix afterwards.
What delivery to Gympie costs
The cartage component depends on which depot the unit comes out of and what the site needs. We work it out with the quote.
Tell us the job rather than the product. What goes in, where it sits and how the truck gets there decides the rest.
Other places on this run
We also deliver to Cooroy, Imbil, Kilkivan, Tin Can Bay, Rainbow Beach and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Gympie
The Mary River has been through my property. Is a container a sensible place for valuables?
It is a good lockup and it is dry from above, but it is not a defence against floodwater and we will not tell you it is. Water rising from below gets in at the door seals, and an empty container has enough buoyancy that deep water will lift and move it. What keeps contents dry is elevation, so the question is really where on your block the unit goes. Gympie's terrain often means there is a genuinely high spot available. Whether a truck can get to it is the next question, and one worth answering before you order.
My driveway is steep and turns sharply. Will that stop a delivery?
Not necessarily, but it decides the truck and possibly the size. A tilt-tray has to raise its deck to unload, and a driveway that climbs hard and then breaks over a crest, or turns within a truck length of the street, will ground the deck or leave no way to square up. A smaller unit on a smaller truck handles a lot of these. A lift from the street works where there is somewhere to stand and nothing overhead. Send us photos from the street and from the top and we will tell you which it is.
Is Gympie close enough to get a container out quickly?
Yes, and it is one of the shorter runs we do. Our yard is at Forest Hill in the Lockyer Valley and it is a straightforward trip north up the Bruce, so two to four business days is the normal window rather than the optimistic one. You are also close enough that coming to the yard to look at a unit before it is delivered is realistic if you want to, provided you ring first. If you would rather not make the trip, we can send photos of the actual unit on request before delivery.
Do containers get used on forestry and timber blocks around Gympie?
Regularly, and the reasons are straightforward. Felling and maintenance gear, chainsaws, fuel drums, chains and spare parts all need to be locked, dry and near where the work is, and the alternative is carting it back and forth or leaving it out. A container does that without an approval or a slab. On timber country the things to get right are the track in, because those are often steep with a soft outside edge, and levelling the unit properly on sloping ground so the doors keep closing after the first wet.
Get a price
Tell us where it is going and what it is for
We deliver to Gympie 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