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
Kingaroy, QLD
Shipping containers Kingaroy
Kingaroy sits far enough off the main freight routes that a container is worth ordering once and ordering properly. The run north through the Brisbane Valley and up over the Blackbutt Range is most of a day for a truck, so we would rather ask three questions about your gate now than turn a driver around at it later.
- Delivered from
- our own Lockyer Valley yard, run north through the Brisbane Valley
- Typical lead time
- Usually 3–5 business days; we group South Burnett runs where we can
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; side loader or crane truck for 40ft where the approach is wide enough
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.
What matters locally, first.
The work they do around here
Around Kingaroy we deliver containers for harvest gear that only earns its keep for six weeks a year, seed, fertiliser and bagged product kept off the ground and away from vermin, hay and silage covers, fencing wire, posts and strainers in one lockable place, machinery parts and spare tynes on properties where the shed filled up a decade ago, tools and materials for owner-builders on the rural-residential blocks around town, and dry storage for the small growers and vineyards through the district.
Getting a truck in
The soil is the first thing anybody notices about the South Burnett and it is the first thing that decides a delivery. The deep red volcanic ground through Kingaroy, Kumbia and Wooroolin is friable and drains far better than the black soil country further west, which is genuinely good news — it does not turn into the grey glue that can shut a district down for a week. What it does instead is go slick on the surface within twenty minutes of rain while the metre underneath stays firm, so a loaded truck loses traction on a gentle grade long before the ground has any right to be a problem. Give it a day of sun and it is fine again. Force it on the morning after a storm and you have a pair of ruts across the paddock and a driver ringing your neighbour about a tractor. Distance from the gate is the second factor. Driveways run a long way out here, usually unsealed, usually crowned, and often with table drains either side that a rear wheel can drop into and not climb back out of. At the far end the truck needs somewhere it can line up straight and unload, because a tilt-tray does not place a container sideways and should not be reversing half a kilometre back to the road in fading light. Grids get asked about on every rural booking, because a lot of them out here were built by somebody's grandfather from whatever rail was going at the time and nobody now has the faintest idea what they carry. Then there are the ordinary things that stop a truck anywhere: gates that measure narrower than they look, a powerline strung to the pump shed at exactly the height a lifted bed wants, and old ironbarks with limbs hanging over the drive at four metres. A photo from the road looking in, and one of the spot itself, settles nearly all of it before anybody books a truck.
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 Kingaroy
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
Kingaroy
Up the Blackbutt Range
The run to Kingaroy from our yard goes out through Fernvale and Esk, up the Brisbane Valley, and then climbs the Blackbutt Range on the D'Aguilar. That climb is the part that shapes everything else. It is steep, tightly cornered and timbered close to the road, and a loaded truck crawls it. There is no way to make it shorter and no point pretending otherwise, so what we do instead is plan around it: South Burnett deliveries get grouped where the dates allow, and we would rather put two containers on one trip than send a truck up that range twice in a fortnight.
For you that means two practical things. Give us a bit of notice where you can — a few days of flexibility usually buys a better spot in the run, and if you are ordering more than one unit, or you and a neighbour both need something, say so and we will look at doing it in one movement. And if you have a hard date, a shed being demolished, a harvest starting, a settlement, tell us at the enquiry rather than after we have quoted. Building the run around a fixed date is easy. Rebuilding it afterwards is not.
On the ground
Frosty mornings and what happens inside the box
Kingaroy gets real winters. Clear nights, heavy frost on the flats, and a swing of twenty degrees or more between dawn and mid-afternoon. A shipping container is uninsulated steel with a very large roof area, and it follows that swing closely. On a cold clear night the roof panel drops below the dew point of the air trapped inside, moisture condenses on the underside of it, and by morning it is running down the corrugations and dripping onto whatever is directly beneath. People notice the drips and assume the roof is leaking. Nine times in ten it is not — the water started on the inside.
It is manageable and it costs almost nothing to manage. Keep contents up off the floor on pallets or a couple of bearers so air can move underneath. Do not put anything in damp — a wet tarp or green timber shut in a steel box will keep the humidity high for months on its own. Fit extra vents if the unit is going to hold anything moisture-sensitive, and leave the doors open for a couple of hours on a dry, breezy day now and then to clear it out. On a long-term store holding tools, seed or paper records, a layer of insulation under the roof is worth the money and stops the problem at the source rather than mopping up after it.
Worth knowing
Peanut country, and gear that only works six weeks a year
A lot of what a South Burnett container ends up holding is seasonal — equipment that is flat out for a short window and then has to sit somewhere for ten months without seizing, rusting or being pulled apart for parts by whoever needs a bolt. That is what a container is genuinely good at. It arrives finished, it locks, it keeps birds and vermin out, and every cargo-worthy unit is checked wind and watertight before it leaves our yard, so what goes in dry stays dry. It also does not require a slab, an approval process or six months of waiting, which matters when the alternative is a shed you have been meaning to build since 2019. Set it on hardwood sleepers or concrete pads at the four corner castings, door end on the high side of any fall, and it will still be sitting square and opening cleanly long after the machinery inside it has been replaced twice.
What delivery to Kingaroy costs
There is no flat delivery rate here worth publishing. What the truck has to do at your end changes it too much, so we quote it per job.
One call sorts it. Size, grade, where it is going and what the entry looks like — that is everything we need to price it properly.
Nearby towns we cover
We also deliver to Nanango, Wondai, Murgon, Blackbutt, Kumbia and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Kingaroy
Can you deliver onto red soil after a wet week?
Usually, once it has had a day or so of sun on it. South Burnett red soil drains well and firms up quickly, but the top surface goes slippery fast, and a loaded truck loses grip on a gentle rise well before the ground itself is soft. We would rather ring you and move a delivery by a couple of days than leave ruts across your paddock or tie a truck up waiting on a tractor. If you have a hardstand or a firm spot near the road, tell us — we can often set the container down there and let you shift it in at your own pace.
How far out into the South Burnett will you come?
Right across it. Nanango, Wondai, Murgon, Kumbia, Blackbutt, Yarraman, Proston and Goomeri are all normal drops for us, and so are the properties well off the bitumen between them. What changes with distance is not whether we will come but how the run gets scheduled, because the range climb makes a South Burnett trip a committed day rather than a quick shuttle. Give us the address and a rough idea of your timing and we will tell you where it fits.
Do containers get damp inside through a Kingaroy winter?
They can, and it is condensation rather than a leaking roof almost every time. Cold clear nights drop the steel below the dew point of the air inside, moisture forms on the underside of the roof and drips. Keep contents on pallets so air moves, do not store anything damp in there to begin with, add vents if the unit is holding moisture-sensitive gear, and open the doors on a dry breezy day occasionally. For a long-term store, insulating under the roof solves it properly.
Can I store seed or grain in a shipping container?
Bagged product, seed, fertiliser and the gear that goes with it, absolutely — it stays dry, it locks, and vermin and birds cannot get at it. What a container is not is a sealed silo. It is not built to be gas-tight and it should not be treated as a substitute for proper sealed storage where that is what the job requires. For bulk grain handling, use the equipment designed for it. For everything around the edges of that operation, a container does the job well and is available now rather than next season.
Get a price
Start with the address and the access
We deliver to Kingaroy 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