Old dairy country turned hinterland village. Rolling green blocks, steep driveways, narrow bridges and a main street where nobody is going to be delighted about a truck parking across it for half an hour.
The recurring jobs around Bangalow are storage on the small farms and lifestyle blocks that fill the hills around town, horse and agistment gear, workshop and studio conversions, storage for the trades working through the constant renovation of the older houses, market and event equipment, and household storage during builds. The order of operations does not vary: grade first, then size, then access. Skipping straight to price is how people end up with the wrong box.
Grade drives the price more than size does. Cargo-worthy units are checked wind and watertight; as-is units are sold with their faults named. You can have pictures of the exact unit on request, sent before it is delivered.
| Size | Used from | New from | Hire from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 | POA |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 | $27/wk |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 | POA |
Guide prices only, ex GST. What you pay depends on the grade and on what is available that week. The run out to Bangalow is costed into the quote rather than left as an open item.
The classic Bangalow property is a few hectares of rolling green with the house near the ridge and the useful flat ground somewhere down the hill. That is a lovely block and a difficult delivery, because the truck has to stay where it has traction and the container wants to go where it does not.
There are three workable answers and we will tell you which applies. A crane truck standing at the top and reaching down, which handles a surprising amount of fall. Placement at the top of the drive rather than the bottom, which people resist until they think about how often they will actually walk to it. Or a shorter unit that can be turned and reversed down a drive a 20ft cannot use.
What does not work is deciding on the day. A driver at the top of a wet clay drive looking down at a slope is going to say no, and he will be right to.
The roads through this hinterland were laid out for dairy traffic and much of the alignment has not changed. One-lane bridges over the creeks, tight bends on ridge roads, and canopy that closes over in places.
For a 20ft that is rarely a problem. For a 40ft it frequently is, and the failure happens well before your gate. It is worth saying that a 40ft that cannot get there is not a cheaper mistake than the right box — two 20fts on separate pads costs a little more per cubic metre and actually arrives.
Tell us the address before you settle on a size. We would rather spend five minutes on the route than have a truck turn around at a bridge.
Two things shape delivery here and neither is the property itself. The first is the roads in. The country around Bangalow is a network of narrow ridge and creek roads with tight bends, one-lane bridges and heavy canopy, and several of them will not take a rigid twelve-metre load. The second is the driveways. Old dairy country means blocks that fall away sharply from the road, and the flat ground on a Bangalow property is frequently a long way below or above where the truck can stand. A steep drive that a ute handles without thought is a genuine problem for a vehicle carrying six tonnes on the back, and turning space at the bottom is a fair question. In the village itself the main street is narrow, busy and not a place to stand a truck for long, so village deliveries want scheduling as much as they want a vehicle. Give us the address and photographs early — on this run the route usually decides the size.
Everywhere else the checklist is identical: can the surface take the weight, is there length to line the vehicle up, is anything above the spot. Photographs answer all three at once — see our access rundown.
Ring and we will tell you what is available and what the run out to you looks like.