Ridge blocks on gravel roads south-east of Gympie. Shallow soil over rock, steep pinches and tight turns decide which truck we send, so we check the access before we quote.
Around Mothar Mountain containers mostly get used for acreage storage, machinery and tool lockups, and secure storage on blocks nobody is on all week. Whatever yours is for, the process is the same: one call, one delivered price, right truck for your access.
| Size | Used from | New from |
|---|---|---|
| 10ft | $4,350 | $6,400 |
| 20ft | $2,200 | $3,300 |
| 40ft | $2,600 | $5,500 |
| High Cube | $3,400 | $5,500 |
Guide prices ex Brisbane depot stock — freight to the Gympie region is quoted with your container so you get one delivered number. Ring 0487 176 951 for today's exact price.
Mothar Mountain sits in the granite ridge country south-east of Gympie, out past Monkland and the Deep Creek side, and it is mostly bush acreage with the rock pools bringing people through on weekends. The containers we put up there do two jobs. Most are storage and workshop space on blocks where building a shed means getting a builder up the same driveway the container has to come up — and the container arrives finished.
The other job is security. A lot of these blocks are weekenders or works-in-progress, with nobody on them from Monday to Friday. A locked container bolted to the ground is a very different proposition from a tarp over a trailer, and it is the reason plenty of Mothar Mountain owners buy one before they build anything at all.
The roads up there are the limiting factor more often than the block is. A loaded tilt-tray wants a firm, reasonably straight run and about three and a half metres of clear width to tip a container, and the climbs off the valley floor put a lot of driveways outside that.
Three things catch people out. Steep pinches, where a loaded truck needs a run-up it cannot get on a bend. Tight turns at the top of a drive, where there is no room to line the tray up with the drop spot. And overhanging branches — the truck is considerably taller than the ute you drive up that track every day, and a limb that clears your mirror will not clear a container.
Send us photos of the entry, the track and the spot you want it, and we will tell you what we can get in before you order rather than on the day. Where a drive genuinely will not take a truck, the usual answer is a drop at the top and a shift with a telehandler or a tractor, which is worth knowing early.
Ridge blocks around here are shallow soil over granite, which is in your favour — it does not turn to soup after rain the way the valley flats do, and it does not settle much once a container is on it. What it does do is sit unevenly. A container carries its entire weight on four corner castings, and if one sits on rock and another on soil, the box ends up twisted and the doors stop closing properly.
Fix it with packers before the truck leaves, not six months later. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under each corner, and level it across the diagonal rather than along one side. Get it up off the ground while you are there so the underside can dry; a container that sits on dirt loses its floor from underneath, and you do not see it until it goes spongy.
This is bush country on a ridge, and we would rather say this plainly than let it be assumed: a shipping container is not fire-proof and it is not a refuge. Steel will not burn, but it conducts heat straight through, and the contents of a container sitting in radiant heat can be ruined without anything inside ever catching alight. Embers get in past the vents and the door seals, which are built to shed rain rather than seal.
What a container does give you is a choice of where your storage sits. Keep clear, mown space on all sides of it, keep it out of long grass and away from the woodpile, and do not place it where it narrows the driveway or sits between the house and the only way out. Keep fuel cans and gas bottles out of it entirely, which is what your supplier will tell you anyway. We have written the longer version of this up for bush blocks over the range, and most of it applies here.
A 20ft goes on a standard tilt-tray, gives roughly six metres of wall to work along, and will get up driveways a bigger unit cannot. On ridge blocks it is the size that actually arrives.
A 40ft is better value per square metre, but it needs a sidelifter and around thirty metres of straight working room at the drop spot. Plenty of Mothar Mountain blocks do not have that anywhere, and two 20ft units placed where they are useful beat one 40ft parked where the truck could reach. A high cube adds about 300mm of headroom, worth having if you will stand and work in it.
Buy cargo-worthy for anything that has to stay dry. Those units are checked and sold wind and watertight, and that is the grade that keeps tools and machinery in good order. Our as-is stock is cheaper and we sell plenty of it, but it is sold as seen and it is not sold watertight — honest value for hay or a rough fencing lockup, wrong for anything you care about. Ask and we will send photos of your unit before it is delivered, serial number visible.
Hire suits a build or a clean-up, and hire units go out cargo-worthy, wind and watertight. Freight is quoted along with the container, because up on the ridge it depends entirely on the access — one call with your address gets you an exact number instead of a guess.
Often, but steep pinches, tight turns at the top and overhanging branches all need checking. Send photos of the track and the drop spot and we will confirm the truck before you order.
Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under all four corners, levelled across the diagonal. Rock under shallow soil makes the ground uneven rather than soft, and an unlevel container stops closing its doors.
No. A container is not fire-proof and is never a refuge. Radiant heat conducts straight through and embers get in past the vents and seals. Keep clear space around it and keep fuel and gas bottles out.
We can usually drop at the top of the drive and you shift it with a telehandler or tractor. Worth sorting out before you order rather than on delivery day.
Soft ground, steep tracks, long driveways — what actually matters when your container is going onto a property in the Gympie region, not a suburban block.
Pomona, Cooroy, Kin Kin, Imbil and Amamoor blocks are full of container workshops. The ones that work got the orientation, the airflow and the power sorted before delivery day — here is that list.
Monkland, East Deep Creek, Chatsworth, Jones Hill, Greens Creek, Victory Heights. Same deal: one delivered price, and the truck matched to your access.
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