>>2986081
Wishing you just bought materials and built a normal shed.
Or bought an old box truck and just set the box on blocks.

>>2986081
What's your next project after this? Burying a shipping container?

>>2986085
Why

>>2986090
A water closet/bathhouse/sauna to keep my 55 gallon barrels from freezing and to shower and do laundry and dishes

>>2986081
Cover in stucco.

>>2986148
>>2986148
That sounds...like a lotta work, something a goyim might do
Not God's Chosen Superior Master Race.
Oy Vey.
It's anudda shoah.
It's just gonna be for storage anyway goy, are you mesuga?
Oy Gevalt this antisemitism is making my fibromyalgia flare up I need my daily allotment of matzah balls and gefilte fish spoonfed directly to my Jewish tummy

>>2986081
wuda retardedass design. the walls have no vertical strength plus a perfect buckle hinge in the middle. so even if you used posts to support the roof like a pole varn the pallets wouldnt be anything but essentially siding except with more assache. plus good luck insulating inside them thus completely defeating the purpose of a wall void
and you obviously havent hauled many pallets bone because youd have figured out they are not ever the same size so each would have to be stripped and cut to fit amd those corkscrew nails they use are an absolute bitch to pull and usually bust the board in the process. oh and youd better have a case of new saw blades for all the random nails and staples youll hit
t. knows better than to try and build shit from junk pallets

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>>2986121
Breaking down skids is tedious and sucks. The wood is often contaminated and already splitting.

You could unironically just buy osb and barn paint and make a shed that would last just as long.

If you don't care about how it looks, and I assume you don't since your asking about pallets, then I'm telling you, just get a old box truck and remove the box off it and put it in your yard. I've had one as a chicken coop for like 10 years. Before I owned it, it was a shed someone else used for like 15 years. Its a old keeblers truck. I use skids to stack firewood on so it doesn't get muddy or rot prematurely.

>>2986090
>Burying a shipping container
If anyone gets any ideas from this, don't. Not unless you want to get crushed to death from the walls or roof collapsing. Dirt's heavy, and sea cans are only made to take weight on their corners, not their panels.

>>2986121
>water closet
If I ever catch one of you animals pouring out your shit bucket at the fence line again, you're gonna have a bad time. Keep away from your neighbors. Build your shed as far from others as possible and pour out your shit buckets close by and I won't bother you unless garbage starts blowing across the fence line. Toilet paper will dry out and blow along so use it sparingly. Also, shit inside your shed. No one wants to see another human being living like an animal, that's why we left the city in the first place.

>>2986189
>>2986188
It's just for storage but I need 10x20. I have 2x4s for framing but I didn't want to use them on a temporary storage shed, GPT told me the pallets could be used for framing. No insulation necessary. If the design is as flimsy as you say I guess I'll order some OSB to be delivered and build a 10x20 frame and some additional metal siding but that's not free...I guess I might insulate it and make it a long term storage building I can hang out in maybe at night with a camp stove so I can keep doing gamedev high on Vyvanse while dogbert sleeps in the house.
Any advice on just a frame style shed that won't fall apart?

>>2986237
I don't want neighbors and it's annoying how most land is in subdivisions now.
I of course am looking at the most forested, isolated properties so that's not going to be an issue. The WC is just for storing my water supply so it doesn't freeze until I can afford a well, it also operates as a sauna and a bathhouse thanks to an enclosed room with a stove and Japanese Style bathtub where I'll do my laundry and hang it up in the next room where the water is stored.
I'm just going to shit out of sight deep innawoods in a home made toilet with a deep hole dug and cover it up every time with ash so no risk of TP and I have a travel bidet as well
>>2986238
If it's going to cost a lot I might just buy a shipping container for storage but I really do want to hang out in there at night...but that probably isn't a good idea for most of Winter anyway to keep both a tiny camp stove and the wood burning stove fed while I'm trying to concentrate on gamedev, maybe I'll skip cold nights altogether? Fuck idk. Yeah I really don't want to waste that framing I'm going to build an Earthship with it.

>>2986081
Perfect for your imitation crab meat if you have too much

>>2986254
It's just for totes and boxes. Maybe a bed to chill in with my laptop coding late into the night while the dog sleeps.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper than a shipping container that costs $1200 before delivery plus the pavers. I want to build it on some old decking I have which will be placed on pavers on a leveled area I pay for alongside a 10x20 I purchased to live in. I just can't afford to waste a single cent nor any framing or building materials I have saved for my Earthship that I will be building basically from the start of living there. I also need a well and septic so if I can save on framing, siding, roofing , etc just to have a temporary place that ensures my main living shed isn't cluttered then yeah it would be similar to storing imitation crab meat. Of course it's gotta be covered in siding but I'm thinking just some cheap rusty old metal sheets or hell, scrap to cover the gaps and tarps to keep out the rain and snow.
GPT and Claude said that using pallets as framing isn't such a bad idea and there are YouTube videos of people doing that too. I don't know about wasting money anymore, the pallet shed is basically $0 cause I already have tarps and scrap to keep out weather and rodents and it's only temporary until the Earth ship is built, then I'll just smash it with a hammer and burn it before it dilapidates

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>>2986238
My advice?
Buid it on high ground, not a ditch
Bulld it so the entrance is away from the weather
Keep it stupid simple (less to wrong wrong and less complications in fixing stuff)
No windows
One door
Flat angled roof
Dirt floor
Sheet metal roof.
Leave a vent under your flat roof to allow heat to escape.


If it's actually temporarily just slap up OSB and paint it. My neighbor has had a temporary shed of OSB for almost 3 years now that's just starting to warp, rot and decay. You can get an extra 2 or 3 years with some fence or barn paint.

If it's permanent, get a box truck or shipping container. Level it follow my advice and just build a false wood wall and door at the entrance if you want.

Skids are probably free cause you pay with your time.

I also think about how insane and stupid it is have a split around the entire structure midwall (where the 2 skids stack for a wall)

Pic semi related.

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>>2986257
Shipping containers are usually scam priced.

You should be able to find a broken down box truck relatively cheap. Remove the back and place it in your yard. Cut out the roller door and frame with wood doors.

If your talking about keeping life in there and not just inanimate objects. Everything changes. Also running power..everything changes.

Now you will need to insulate and weather proof and add lighting.

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I'm not fucking around about this.
You can't build a barn this cheap anymore.

I hate it lol.

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500$s.

A single piece of cheap foil sheet metal is like 20$.

>>2986313
>>2986317
>>2986318
Zamndoe.

>>2986313
>hipping containers are usually scam priced.
They can be. But, they are way more structurally sound than a box van. So as long as you aren't paying assrape prices for them you do end up with an overall better end product. I live in the absolute middle of no where in the middle of the U.S. As far away from any sea ports as you can get and can get 40' high cubes for less than 4,000 and more like 3,000 if you find the right deal.

20' ones come up.for around 2500ish, but they are in higher demand for people with less space to work with.

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>>2986383
I agree with you. I'd take a shipping container over box truck. But you can sound them up easily with 2x4 bracing inside.
Honestly you got more to worry about with water leaking eventually. Mine is a old keeblers box truck. Its probably 30 years old from the time of it retiring.
Its still standing perfectly and the inside has metal lattice. Its unironically a castle of a chicken coop.

I was trying to balance everything. But Ideally, I agree with you. I rather a shipping container and then modify that.

I think op wants a club house. In which case he just needs to run power to a tool shed.

You can barely make out that is use to be a truck from the top portion under the roof, on the corners.
The wood panel is just a wind block for the birds to exit.

I been adding to this over the years with whatever scraps are around. Its just where they sleep at night. All the birds free range.

>>2986431
I'm going with the shipping container but they are trying to scam me, listing the price as $1500 then saying it's double that for a delivery quote.

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>>2986573
We're getting out of my area of knowledge.
I never done it, but I'd ask them how much it cost if I pick it up myself, the. See if I can get a third party to do it for like 300$-500$.

I'm just guessing so don't consider this advice.

Get a good metal grinder/cut off, it will be a death box of heat until you do some ventilation. Vent it if you plan on spending any time in it and if you are feeling frisky, I'd probably cut the doors it comes with off and frame a wall and door. My experience with shipping containers is from work at a nursery. It wouldn't close right cause it sunk a little and the doors wouldn't latch. They were heavy and annoying.

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>>2986573
Also shop around.
If you plan on spending time in it make sure it wasn't used to ship something thats going to kill you slowly or at least clean it and paint the inside to hopefully seal whatever shit is on it, on it and not in you.

But this is just me shit balling. I admit this is out of my knowledge realm.

>>2986573
If you don't mind keep us informed too. I'd like to learn about getting shipping containers from your journey.
Sorry I don't do it all in one post..I'm super autistic and these feel like important thoughts and sporadic.

>>2986586
Can do, I'm only going to hang out in it at night so I won't mind if there's any heat left. They said it was $1500 for one they found that they sold. I honestly think $1500 is the only fair price for a 20' shipping container.
I'm also buying a 10x20 shed kit for sleeping/cooking and a 8x12 shed kit for bathing/washing. I really want my budget to stay under $10,000 including the shipping container and leveling the ground which sounds like a major hassle.

>>2986589
Not gonna lie. I actually like leveling and tamping.

Also be prepared to fix a few leaks here and there. They are suppose to be water tight but often times the corners leak from my understanding or I would assume salt water may have rusted a hole somewhere.

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>>2986589
>stay under $10,000
this was $6500 in materials during the summer of love and that was buying and scrounging as much cheap shit as i could find including discount tin
the conex was $1600 and 8 miles away and i had a rollback tow truck move it for $200. i should have bought a better conex that was less dented and had a better floor but it was peak bullshit time and they were in short supply
this was my 2nd conex. the other is just a storage box but sprayfoamed inside

>>2986597
>>2986602
I don't know if I can't find a shipping container for $1500 maximum I'm not sure if it's worth it. I also have a small greenhouse I can use to store stuff in.
The shipping container is really just for storage. I can't have any sheds above 200sqft without permits and after buying one to sleep in and one to do laundry in and keep my water from freezing I'm burnt out on spending money. If I can borrow my dad's truck and trailer I can go get all the pallets I need in a single day but he doesn't seem like he's gonna let me despite giving me all his old deck lumber. Probably won't go with me to pick up pallets cause a pallet shed is "shoddy" but he also wants me to get all the 2x4s and windows and other stuff like chicken lights and nesting bays off his property as soon as I get my own land and a shipping container would be perfect for that and becoming a long term workshop to store all my tools. I just can't justify spending money where I could instead be saving it for a future well/septic/excavation. GPT keeps pushing gravel padding under stone blocks but I rarely ever even see that and it's just another expense. I think I'll build a massive covered deck area for all my supplies and perhaps just pick up pallets here and there if all goes south. I really don't want to spend $10,000 on my living situation as the land is already $20,000 and budget is barely above that at $40,000, I want to put the $10k to work by giving temporary loan checks to the government and making interest of their payments.

>>2986602
What's the square footage of that? I wouldn't mind building something custom if it's modifying a box on a box truck or something but it can't be above 200sqft

>>2986602
Gotta say it looks great. I'm mirin the custom design. I can only find rusty old metal siding for a good price on Faceberg marketblatt though so using that to cover up some pallets would make more sense in my case. I'm building an Earthship next so destroying a pallet shed and transferring everything to the live in shed when all is said and done makes more sense financially than a permanent shipping container unless the container is cheap. My dad's just being annoying wanting all my stuff gone but some of it is in his garage like the 2x4s so I get it

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>>2986606
the leanto is 16' wide x 22' deep plus overhang
the 1st rule about permits is dont talk about permits. if your neighbors arent currently waring with you and the city isnt on some deranged code or tax rampage then just dont be stupid about drawing too much attention during the build

>>2986608
That's awesome. I want to build something like that for a car port. I just don't know if I could get away with building something that violates codes cause during the process of building an Earthship I'm going to need inspectors coming and going for literally everything and I don't want a fine.

>>2986609
so finish your permitted structure and lay low for 6mos to a year then build away judiciously
in the meantime get a 40ft high cube conex and tell anybody that asks its for securing your tools. or slap a mobile mini rental sticker on the door and say its
>temporary

>>2986610
Hell yeah these are a great price and they're massive! Great idea, thank you lad!
Faceberg Marketblatt is just full of scammers, $3k for a 20ft container compares to $1500 for a 40ft container is a no brainer. Then later I can make it habitable with car port and electricity for my power tools and keeping the car battery on a tender, really cool
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>>2986605
youre obviously young and dumb but thats not your fault. weve all been there
you really need to get at least a little nip pickup truck or even better an older 3/4 ton. it doesnt need to be nice just something easy and cheap to fix. that way you can watch and go immediately to snag free/cheap shit and haul building materials

>>2986614
I can't bring myself to do it. I almost bought a truck but it just isn't my style. I settled on a Honda Pilot and that's all I'll ever need/want.

>>2986611
Fuck. I was wrong. The price turned into $3k again somehow. $3k is too much, I don't care what the economy is like, I just can't afford to spend that much money on something that's only for storage

>>2986615
But damn I really want a free stand up grand piano and I like working on cars. A truck just isn't me...maybe if one day I happen to find a manual transmission worthy of upkeep I'll consider it...or maybe I can import a Kei Truck somehow? I just don't feel good driving a truck, the engine noise sucks too.

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>>2986616
youre going to figure out cheap conexes arent good and good conexes arent cheap
picel was $3k in 2018 but came with the no title trailer. its a #1. had a new floor and door seals and the doors closed perfectly. plus no dents and only 1 patch on the far end
check the tare weight on the door. the best quality seacans are ~5100 lbs and some of the "1 trip" built for resale are 1k lbs less because the wall steel and flooring is thinner. plus they have less crossmembers underneath. essentially the garage freight version of a conex
>wind and water tight
is a bullshit used car salesman term for piece of shit that shouldve been chucked in the ocean

>>2986618
>not comprehending the purpose of a 2nd rig
you dont daily drive a beater with a heater dump runner

>>2986619
Fuck. The two shed kits are already $6800. I don't want to go over my $10k budget, I'd actually prefer to stay well under it by ditching the idea entirely if there's no other way. I'll already have two other sheds and a greenhouse plus a massive covered deck area alongside a shipping container? It would feel like a waste after the Earthship is built. Maybe I'll just hang out in the water closet with a reclining camp chair while the dog sleeps and build a lean to with a tool wall/cabinet for my car and workshop area

>>2986620
No I work from home, I don't drive very much at all. I actually have to get my battery replaced because I let it sit too long outside without starting it.