Turning Shipping Containers into a WorkShop!
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Cool! To you also, although we don't have that here in Australia 👍
Same to you and your family Matt. I hope that everybody has a good Thanksgiving.
Same to you!..Thanks for the cheap..but quality entertainment lol
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving Brother!
I resolved a lot of the safety squint issue by getting a portaband. It's also a lot safer around flammables, doesn't cause burn holes in my cloths or leave all that grinding residue in my laundry pissing off the wife.
Matt, if you had put the racking on the other wall of the red container, then you could put a door direct from inside your shop to the store and you wouldn't need to open those container doors as they are heavy.
That is what I was thinking also!
Get yourself a mini pallet jack and some smaller pallets to keep your various engines/heavy parts on. Store the pallets on the floor under the pallet racks using the mini pallet jack.
To better protect the roof on the containers, you need to sweep all debris (Leaves, pine needed, dirt etc) from holding moisture on the metal.The panels are 2mm thick on the starter and End roof sheets and 1.6mm thick for the inner panels. I would the roof it with a sealant like Truck Bed Sealer. this will prevent scrapes/abrasion if you want to store items on the roof. Another idea is to extend the shop roof over the containers keeping the roof covered and out of the direct sun. Jack up any roof dents to allow water runoff & slightly pitch the containers (a paver under the inner Front & Rear corner castings will be OK) this allows any water to run off. Do not pitch it too much or the doors may rack and be hard to close.
Good work buddy!
Happy Thanksgiving man!
@@DieselCreek Matt when you gona close the big Container where we all see your machines are in.
I been watching you all day
@@SKYWALKER_1912 He's not. That's the main part of the building, and he built it like that so he can drive things in and out from either end.
Looking forward to seeing the new Shop. It would be good to include an overhead gantry crane to lunk the heavy stuff and have an inspection pit (5 feet deep, steps and illuminated) so that access to the belly pans is straightforward without wriggling on your belly!
nice lights , you could cut a hole in the back end of the container and mount an exhaust fan with louvers that close when not in use
Im old & dont usually give advice unless asked but Ive found it convenient to put the HEAVY ( barrels & engines Flammables ) by the entrance for frequent accessibility & fire danger & not dragging heavies from one end to the other.
@@Ganbalf Another reason for a second door.
You can always use wire mesh for the shelving base.
This approach helps with light in that kind of setup.
Agreed you can beef up with unistrut too. Mesh would be nice for cleanliness and hold no moisture or oil for long term durability. You could always take us on a scrap yard adventure to get some cheaply
@@johnlowther4068 love your comment, spot on
I was going to suggest the same thing. Much cleaner looking too. That's what we have here.
First thing I thought of as well, saw a lot of it in use back in my cold storage construction days.
Awesome!! Can’t wait to more work on the church 😋
To my American friends: Happy Thanksgiving.. Always a month late, but that's OK ;)
@Diesel Creek: Matt the LED bulbs oscillate at 100 mhz on an AC circuit that is generated at 60 hz in North America and if you take the frame rate of the camera up to f/120 then that would stop the LED Flicker.
Matt, you can probably get rough cut lumber at a local sawmill for a fraction of the price of finished lumber. And you can probably get oak that will last a lifetime. Just an idea. Keep up the great work. Maybe a Harbor Freight flat dolly to set the engine on and you can wheel it around pretty easily. I used a smaller one and a larger one to build a dolly for my backhoe. They work great.
May I suggest getting a couple Harbor Freight furniture dollies to place under heavy objects like that engine. They have a 1000 lb capacity and you can roll them where you like.
The little off cuts could be bolted to the back wall. giving you an extra support for up front.
And for shelving. Can use roofing iron, 2ft lengths, With some small water pipe in the groves to give support.
Free advice from an avid shed collector.
I buy the Cull lumber at my local lumber yard. I get the whole stack and they usually cut me a good price. My favorite part is telling the kid loading my trailer. Anyone can build out of straight lumber its a skilled carpenter that can work with the twisted stuff. Every board should be straight for at least two feet.
my mentor told me, it takes a real carpenter to know how to cover his mistakes.
Over here we have a guy selling cull lumber out of his farm, he collects it from saw mills and sells it really cheap. Shiplap costs about one third of the same amount of plywood.
@@SpringdaleJim That's the painters job.
@@SpringdaleJim I say myself , a good apprentice hides his mistakes, that’s how I’ve been getting away with it 😂
Great Idea for planks, Matt!!
The devil works hard but Matt works harder! Thanks for all the awesome content :))
Everything in its place and a place for everything. Lookin good Matt.
Matt have you thought of buying yourself a used sawmill. With your ,mechanical abilities and the timber you already have might be a perfect match.
Thank you so much for sharing. Way back when I had 2 young children and a tiny budget I had a friend who was the caretaker of a landfill. I paid him $.50 for salvaged 2x4's from the wood burn pile. He was so bored at his job he even pulled the nails for me. Of course that was before 2x4's were $6.39 each 😐.
Great work, Matt! Storage is underrated 😁 If you fit a vent to the fixed end of each container, the airflow will improve a lot for lots of boring physics reasons. Cheap upgrade for big potential effect 🤟🏼
You need a container to put stuff to organize the container. The dollies from Harbor Freight work ok for putting motors on. At least you can move them when you need to.
For smaller-caliber shelves, go to a surplus office furniture type place, see if you can buy some scratched up complete set of bookshelves or similar. Certainly cheaper than buying new plywood, but already built and probably with 1" incremental doodads to adjust the shelf heights. You might even be able to get stuff out of their dumpster.
Every step gets you closer to your dream place, a shop located at the place you love to be I believe is every man’s dream! Looks great Matt, getting more organized brother! Thanks for sharing Matt 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
I started my construction equipment business with one 20' container. Then added another 20' and then a 40' with the 20's at right angles at each end of the 40' forming a "U" shape. Then put a roof over them and finally paved the floor and put a wall on the open end. 20 years later, I was in a 20,000 sf building with 30 employees.
The new lighting in your containers was a great improvement.
Keep up the vids. I really like them.
You need a couple of cross members in each shelf to keep the plywood from bowing down, from the weight sitting on top of them. And to keep the support beams from spreading apart. Looks good.
At my job they use a light mist from a couple garden hoses spraying top down on the container to cool it off, also for the racks they use the fence panels with the square holes laid flat and bent down as a lip over the back of the rack instead of plywood. Maybe use a ram pump to pump water from the near by creek to cool your containers off and excavate a trench for it to go back to the creek for the summer months. Hope that helps some
Hello Mat from Greece :) For the sun heat, you can paint the containers white, it really helps in reducing the temperature if they get direct sunlight on them currently. Happy Thanksgiving and be careful!!
This man is an inspiration to anyone that needs to get things done. Despite any setbacks, he just keeps moving onward and upward. Well done Matt. ( NJ subscriber )
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I bought a crap pile of used steel file cabinets for my shipping container shop storage. Makes a HUGE difference for storage and organization
Now I've got to check out the Hyperlights. My neighbor, Mr Haney, sold me a batch of the troffer lights long ago. While they work ok, the shop needs to be brighter, just like me
Happy Turkey day, Matt!
Did he sell you a hoyt-clagwell tractor too?
Looking good Matt ! Seeing your 4 drawer filing cabinets reminded me, years ago I came across 2 drawer high filing cabinets. I found them at thrift stores and yard sales, real cheap $. Some were different depths, 24 and 18, but all the same height. I spaced them down a long wall and had about 16' of kitchen counter tops (got for free) on the top of them . Made nice shelf space and work area. They were different colors. I put plumbing supplies in the blue one, and electrical in the gray. And painting supplies in another, and so on. You can never have enough storage ! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Matt I have pallet shelves and use 2x8's on the shelves for stacking. They were in our tile warehouse and I got several after the business closed after 30 years. At that time only 2x8's were used for pallets and some were coved with sheet wood for individual box stock. Now they hold my milled boards from my sawmill near Seward Alaska. Thank you sir for your efforts, we share alot in common.
Happy Thanksgiving to all in the 🇺🇸. From the Glendenning family Kitchener Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
HAPPY THANXGIVING! :D
You just gave me new ideas! 💪🏼💯💪🏼
This makes us moms happy! Organization!!!
That was awesome and an unique perspective watching sparks coming at the camera
That whole "The reason i am not organised is because i have to much stuff, so now that i have more space, everything is going to get organised" sounds SO much like my dad.
His garage was also a mess, filled to the brim, so he decided to add 50% more space, because then he would surely have enough space to get organised.
In reality, the only thing that happened was, that the amount of stuff he wanted to store, in a short span of time grew, with about 50%
I was there to help clear out the garage, when he was no longer able to go there anyway, and boy oh boy, did he have a lot of worthless junk, that he just could not seem to part with.
There was about 1*1 meter of space in that garage, where you could actually see the floor....And that was mainly, because the door to the garage would open inward. :)
Thats a huge change inside the container! before & after is like day & night. Well done sir!
I was given about 2,000sq ft of full sheet concrete form boards, it’s by far my favorite go to for shelves and workbenches. Super ridged and oil/moisture resistant. Can sandwich three layers together and use portions of the inner layer as pull out work tables. I’ve got three 30”x 46” pull out sections on my large workbench that’s usually cluttered with big projects. The sections can be pulled out about 32” and support a massive amount of weight on the outer edge still. They are a life saver if you’re like most of us who cover every single horizontal surface with what the SO would call “junk”. Never need to clear off a space to fix something in a hurry.I just pull out one or two of the sections that I need and get to it.
Just a piece of advice Matt, put your gloves in a big Ziploc bag to keep spiders out of them, don't want to put your hand in one and a black widow or brown recluse spider living inside and bite your hand.
Reclaimed floor grating has two more benefits over plywood, air flow through it and a much higher per square inch weight capacity. Spills don't hide on shelves and hooks can create another layer of storage possibilities. Small easily moved and customized pieces can cover a lot of shelving. You only have to hold up the two ends... good vid Matt, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours:-)
Ah Chief you don’t disappoint us all with this regular videos. Keep up the good work Chief
Those type of shelves make great work benches also. I have seen guys , make them into nice automotive work stations. Add a peg board and an over headlight, and you are in business.
Looking good Matt. If there is a local sawmill you can probably buy scrap lumber and run it cross ways for shelves.
Those beams/cross members are 1&1/2 inches deep notches in them. Find used 2x4-2x6-2x8 etc to cut and fill. Works absolutely the best as then beam edges are flush with top of beam and strong. I've also cut up solid wood doors and used. 2x material is the best!
What a surprise I was not expecting a video on Thanksgiving. But it makes my day. Thanks for posting today Matt. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
the poblem with screwing into the sceling with those containers is if it penitrates the top at all water runs down the screw and actually fills the light up with water. this causes the light to be so heavy that it falls off the sceling, moral of the story put a roof on the container or go up there with a can of bitcumen and start painting.
You need shade over the shipping container so they won't get so hot in the sun. You could extend the rafters gathering center roof out over the containers. Maybe even past the containers to create lean-to for whatever.
Ya just can't beat sitting back with some coffee and watching someone be productive! The lights and shelves look great. Happy Thanksgiving Matt.
Happy Thanksgiving Matt, Eva and your entire Diesel Creek family!
Another awesome video! You should run a gantry down the center!
Hey Matt, I’ve built cheap shelves by using inexpensive thin plywood and using support pieces of 1x3 strapping laid down 16” of 24” on center across the longitudinal shelf supports. Screw the plywood to the strapping “joists” and you’ll have shelves as strong as using 3/4” plywood. Light weight, strong and cheap.
It sounds like Matt needs a sawmill to make his own shelf planks from trees on his property.
He has a chainsaw which is all you need.
It's really the little things... Like when you put the pig mats on the shelf and got all giddy 😂 genuine excitement and thus a ride along for us. Love the videos man. Happy Thanksgiving!
Its great to have a Friend to help wire lites up .and wire it inn
This is my favorite show on UA-cam.
Remember what you said in the video where you cleared off the Autocar to pull the trans, all horizontal surfaces tend to collect “stuff”. Now you will have many more horizontal surfaces. Add 30 more years of collecting and picture it, that is what kind of happened to me. Now on the subject of a money tree, they do exist. In 2003 some one went off the road and hit a big maple in my front yard, his insurance paid $1500 for damage to the tree. A couple weeks later the state paid me $1500 in a construction easement for the tree in case it had to be removed as the road was being rebuilt. The tree is still there growing, shedding a mountain of leaves each fall. I’m just waiting for it to drop money again! Have a good holiday season!
Hah this is a great story. I love it
If the Maple tree is big enough it's worth a pretty penny itself to cabinet and furniture makers as lumber.
Even small cuts are good for inlay pieces on dressers, cabinets, entrance tables and others.
I have a saw mill if I ever get it running. Cutting it down would make my wife happy but for now it will keep growing.
@@oldamericaniron5767.
Hopefully, the accident damage won't shorten it's lifespan.
We had 5 sugar maple trees in out yard growing up in Michigan and we gapped them every other year to make syrup, taffy and lastly sugar.
All horizontal surfaces are collect alls. That is the Gods honest truth . Inside and outside of the home.
Put a couple roof vents in ASAP.. Condensation can be bad in those certain times of year.
Solar powered vent fans work well. I put a couple in my garage. Makes it much cooler in the Summer and they have a temperature operated switch to keep them from running below 80°F
I work in old 1950s steel electrical enclosures that were never intended to be insulated exactly, but what they did use was homosote attached to the walls, which prevented condensation from forming on the inside. Surprisingly effective.
Your container shop is looking great, make a pallet stand for the engine and use a pallet Jack to store the engine under your shelving. That is what I do
Those lights are a real game changer! 👍
Shelving material...find a contractor that does remodeling. They always have waste, which you should be able to get for FREE! Even 2x4's that you could bolt together would work...cuz they're FREE! Old countertops would be good.
OR...go to your local Restore and see what they have. Then go back in a couple of days. Inventory is constantly coming in. Lot of overruns from contractors!
P.S. You should put an exhaust fan in the deep end. Then you will have circulation.
I understand how you feel about having your stuff organized and in it's proper space, Matt. It is soothing to the mind to have everything put where you want it to be, rather than just tossed here and there. Plus, it is more efficient to the work that you're trying to accomplish. Looking great, my friend!
I like the addition of the shelving, they make wire mesh shelving that fits into those, or hog panels have small spaced holes. With the increases I have seen in material it may still be cheaper to buy plywood off of marketplace. Love your channel and the stuff you work on and fix, even if you aren't and expert at least you keep on till you get it!
The bigger beams are for pallets, and the smaller beams are for hand-stacked product. At home depot we use a mix between metal grating and 2x6 boards. Technically the grating is for the pallets, and the wood is for hand stacked
I used to install those uprights and beams in commercial spaces. The beams with the lip is perfect for 2-by wood for support and is flush with the beam. The grating that goes over them, if you find some, can go over the beam or sit between the beams.
Looks good to me!
you should cut a door into the covered work area on the side of the container eventually.
This man is responsible for the shipping container shortage, accordingly supply chain issues and ultimately inflation :)
I get blamed for Everything else, why not 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤣
I quoted a price a few weeks back and a standard 9 footer was 9k from the 3k it used to be. For 9k I might as well build a garage. If the prices ever drop again then I will get one as I want to move the stuff out of a crappy shed in to something a bit better.
You haven't watched Andrew camerata have you
Nah, more like Andrew Camarata.
no that was andrew c and his castle/shop checker plate bungalow complete with separate leantoo outdoor shop and storage, mountain property winter getaway resort.
I hear you on the wanting organization but lacking space. I just moved, and it is such a relief to be able to set a place for things to be, and label it, so I know what's where and what-all I actually have. I might actually be able to use the workbench here! I could build things!
240w of led lighting should make it like daylight in there. you could try 3/4" tile backer board on 2x4s for shelves, but it might not be much cheaper than plywood. or you could build a reusable form, line it with sheet plastic, and make 1"-1 1/4" thick reinforced concrete shelves. kinda heavy, but strong and cheap, and once they were bolted in place the weight wouldn't really matter as long as you weld the uprights to the container. you can use steel conduit as cast in sleeves for the bolts holes to help prevent cracking. i've made concrete kitchen countertops, and they are neat as hell.
Hey Matt, metal or wood doors make some pretty good shelving. Wish you and yours a Happy Holiday season. Take care 👍
man that took me right back to my grandpas old shop when i was a kid. He got about 15 new steel doors from a big job that knocked them over when they were being delivered, they all got dented pretty good on one side. He took those suckers and made workshop tables and benches EVERYWHERE he had a spot open. I couldnt even begin to tell you how much junk he had piled up on most of them through the years...LOL
Matt this was a great video. I have used the container shop many times. I always painted the roof white to reflect some of the heat. Exhaust fan in the wall works really well. Happy Thanksgiving.
My suggestion is to get a couple wall mounted fans. That will free up some floor space. Love the content
Yep, containers get VERY dark......... so much fun to stumble around in first thing in the morning to collect things needed for a day.
For my 20 cents, you might want to try find some galvanised weld mesh (1") turn it so items will slide towards you, Open mesh will let light get under shelving, to help you see better under shelves. Just a thought !
Loved the video! Can't wait to see everything more organized, maybe get a window in the back end of the container? Might be nice to open it up and let air flow THROUGH instead of into.
Get a Wood Mizer saw mill. Use the trees where you are going to build your shop. Then use the mill to saw the wood for your new shop. Damn the lumber yard.
Wire mesh will allow light to pass through but it can be a bit of a bugger for some pieces that are apt to hang up on it, or fall through. However, wood pallets can be cut to fit and there are places that are GIVING them away. I have some pallet racking where we use 4x4s cut to fit and they are positioned to hold the large, heavy stuff.
As usual Matt, GREAT camera angles. Thanks for taking the time to set them up.
Happy Thanksgiving, Matt!
Same to you!
Those stepped shelf brackets are made to hold any 2X4,6,8,10 you can usually get short ones cheap at any big box lumber and they would be a lot stronger then the plywood, and if you want to be able to add or remove the shelf brackets you should leave space on the back side to give room to do so.
Use cattle panels for your shelving. Then you can add cheap 1/4 in ply on top or even odd scraps on top if you need a solid shelf.
The shipping container looks great, well organized well lit , And being made of heavy ass steel probably bulletproof, great video thank you
Speaking of bullet proof, a friend has a pistol firing range in a shipping container.
@@haroldphipps3457 ha ha I knew it
I enjoy all of your videos amd they have helped me when i get stuck on working on a project. Have alot of them unfinished but worth it. Happy Thanksgiving bud
you can use fencing to make the platform of the shelf for bigger items and for smaller you can double it to make the holes smaller or cover the fencing with chicken wire.
Thanks for posting!
What a great way to start my day! Happy Thanksgiving, you guys! Be safe!
One of the cool things that I ever done is pick up some of those steel file cabinets. One of my friends before he passed away some years ago bough a huge lot of lateral file cabinets. This way he can open a door and have stuff exposed and if he needed to pull out a draw he could do that as well. They can be had dirt cheap a lot of times and file cabinets can hold a lot of stuff.
You can turn one into a poor man smoker/grill as well. Bottom drawer is the fire box and all the other drawers cut out the bottom of the drawer and install wire mesh.d
@@ClaytonHartin Speaking of smokers, I have mine running right now doing 2 large turkeys. Been smoking since 10pm last night, so about 12 hours, going to turn the heat up here after while. They smoke for 12 hours then finish cook for the last 3 to 4 hours to get them done for dinner around 1pm to 2pm. My smoker is a salvaged treager grill, just the burn pot and hopper added to a insulated proofing cabinet. Works very well and has enough shelf space for quite a bit of stuff.
Lateral file cabinets are great! I get them cheap at the re-use store. Perfect to store corded power tools, etc. Some guys paint them Snap On red, and put the snap on decals on them from Ebay to fool their friends.
Oooooooo! Matts got a Gravely! Thought I was the only one left! Nice build Matt.
My mind is happy when stuff is not strewn crappy. You may be the same. Makes a mind tame when it's up on a frame. 👍💪🎯🤠
Love to watch you organize the shipping containers! That's turning into a great workspace! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Eva!
All great improvements! Where will you store everything else…that looks like just enough space for Kroil😂!!
I thought the same about the money tree- super nice unit!
How did you seal the fasteners going through the roof of the containers?
HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!!!
Roof tar, plus they are getting covered soon
Also something that might help you out is placing a shelf on the very inside end of the container.
The added shelf would allow you to use the engine hoist to lift things straight back onto the shelf, off the floor and out of the way.
Awesome work, bright as heck in those containers.
Happy Thanksgiving Matt! I'm thankful for the hard work you put into sharing content with us!
You need to cut some holes in the top of those containers and put some vents in them so it will at least be able to vent air in the summer time
Just an extra thought, a vent would help keep fumes from building up inside and prevent a oops if spark found it way inside. :)
Matt! You have three million and six board feet of old growth barnwood timber kicking around. That'll work great for your shelves. Better then plywood. Start using it up! It would be a good way to salvage what was left of that old barn on your property.
HAPPY Thanks Giving from Richard Perth Western Australia to You Matt and your Family.
For shelving my buddy re-purposed old garage door panels . His step father had a garage door company and he used the customer's old roll-up door panels. It worked really well.
Matt having worked in the Sheet Metal Trade most of my career, I find face shields are worth it
from not only a safety stand point but economical as eyes are not readily available for purchase!
look in a mirror and you are looking at the person who is most responsible for your own safety!
Having metal stuck in your eye is pretty bad, but when the piece of metal starts rolling while your eye moves or when you blink is where the real "fun" begins.