How to build a shipping crate
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Learning how to build a shipping crate is essential if you are in the business of selling products outside of your home town. It is so important that you take the time to build a shipping crate that can endure the brutal treatment it will receive enroute to it's destination. From the time the crate is picked up from your location it will pass through many drivers, dock workers, forklift drivers, terminal workers etc. and not everyone is concerned with what's inside your crate. In this video I show you how to build a basic shipping crate and give you some tips that I've learned over the past several years of shipping large custom products all over the US.
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This is the best "how to build a crate" instruction ! Thank you! I have some large paintings to ship and I was looking for something easy and logical to follow.
Well done and well said. It doesn’t matter what you write on the shipping package, some shippers ignore your hard work. Thank you for the tips on insurance. Now I have to build a heavy duty on for my 290 pound safe. Thank you for sharing
Excellent! glad it helped
Very useful advice. Thank you.
Thanks for this video! I have a tough time finding the right size crates/boxes to ship my artwork so this is very useful to make my own!
Excellent I'm glad it was helpful : )
Excellent thank you
PS, I like the corkscrew on your tool board in the background of your closing comments.
The corkscrew is the unsung hero in my shop :)
Very helpful, thanks!
Excellent so glad it helped
Awesome! Your shipping crates are as meticulous as your products. Artwork.
Thanks Barbara...this video is a bit boring but 've had a slow week in the shop. Hopeully next weeks video will be a bit more exciting :)
Thanks for the video. Have to agree with Barbara one hundred percent. A client would have to be happy with their product arriving in a well put together and meticulously packed crate. Do you ever use "Shock Watch" or similar shock sensor indicators?
I've thought about using them however based on what I've seen in the past they'd show shock every trip, so I've just made better crates with more cushion
Doug
I sold my first project. An attorneys office saw it on Etsy and ask me to build them a table bigger than the one I had listed. Now I have to figure out how to ship it and pack it. Haha.
It’s 24”x 48. Steel angle iron and rivets
Trying to figure out how much to quote for shipping and how to crate it
Thanks for the video.
Congrats! I would say call Freightcenter ext 1082 talk to Deidra. Tell her I sent you. She rocks. She'll set you up for freight shipping
Artfully Rogue thanks man. I really appreciate you
Instead of gluing the corners and using three 4" screws rather than only two... have you considered investing in a bander/strapping unit? Just a thought. It would save time and cost in the long run and achieve the same results or better. It's also a good idea to take pictures of the product you're sending in each step of the process of packaging (i.e. with the product in the crate before including insulation, depending on the contents, as well as after sealing it up before loading in onto a carrier).
Good video for smaller items requiring protection during shipment without the need of a forklift or pallet jack to unload, because unloading your product is just as important as getting it to the final destination.
Actually I have considered a banding machine but for some reason it has gone to the back of my mind. Maybe I'll revisit that idea. Since this video was shot I refined the process a bit, however I've always taken pictures of the process. I learned early on to document everything.
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I need to build one over 6 meters long. What is the best way to reinforce seams between the sheets
Excellent video! I ship large art on canvases. I thought about screwing on metal handles to the box to make it easier to handle, do you think that is a good idea or will they get in the way?
I've added handles before and I was told by several drivers although they are helpful, they often get knocked off in the packing/loading process. So I stopped spending the extra money.
I was thinking the same thing. Thanks!
I make door systems to and everytime we build an awesome crate with fragile labels all over it and it's still demolished when it arrives to destination... sometimes our doors are damaged
yeah the carriers just don't seem care about the quality of their service. I've gotten to the point where my crate almost weigh as much as my doors because I'm using 2x6 and osb
Thanks. Just a technical point that if you are glueing your box, using anything larger than 15 gauge nails is kind of superfluous. What advantage is there to using screws? None to my thinking. You would only want screws to maybe one side or end to avoid prying - then no glue there. I think!
I call it the overkill method. Having shipped out many crates, freight companies have a habit of trashing crates. I try to make it harder for that to happen.
If you are gluing the joint, the screws pull the joint tight without clamps. If you are not gluing the joint, you have a way to take it apart nondestructively. Predrilling and countersinking with one bit, flip it around for driving #2 phillips.
@@RayDoeksen🖖 Yeah that's pretty much what I said - a light nail gun does that too. In practice I think better than screws. (Justifying my recent investments!) And so satisfying! BANG! or KaTHUNK!
Hi! thank you for video. roughly how much did you spend on materials?
probably between $50 an $65 depending prices
How much does it cost to make a wooden box like this and how much do you sell it for?
It would depend what kind of box it is. If its just a box for a shipping crate or if its a box that requires a better quality type of wood. Then it comes down to size of the box and where it would ship to
How much do those crates weigh?
On average I would say about 60-75 lbs. A sheet of osb is 25lb which is the sheet wood I use now
Thank you!
Drywall screws are for drywall, not construction, not for boxes and not for crates. Hence the name Drywall Screws. Use woodworking screws for general woodworking.
😄😄😄😄my shop. My choice. Actually on my heavy duty crates I now use a 3/8" osb with wafer head construction screws.
This Side Up....hey lets lie it flat...
Freight drivers don't care what you write on the crate, they don't read it anyway. It's more about writing on there so when you file the insurance claim you can show that you had it on there.