A Christmas Present To Myself ...

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

RE: A Christmas Present To Myself ...

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Dave Rose wrote:
Hey Darryl
Can I ask what you paid for the containers?I may be looking for one in the spring if any members here see any deals in southern Ontario-stay safe!
Keep on Cruising!
Dave

These (2) containers, being "new" (used only once) are $10,000 + 15% PEI tax. That is the ground leveling, shale (fill), and crane service included. Mind you, the seller's business is just 2 kms. down the road from me.

You can get "beater" containers cheaper, that are unsightly to me. You have to really watch if the doors have been abused. Damaged or poorly aligned doors can make your use of of the container, hell. furious I know from past work experience.

My wife's uncle told me that his neighbour built a shed (same size as one container) last year for 15,000. That is pre-Covid building material prices.

These shipping containers can be resold at a later date easier than a wood shed.

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65Camino wrote:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get rid of the stuff ?

You can't be a true Darryl if you think like that. biggrin I have real good stuff!

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Canadian Poncho wrote:
Darryl, did you see the large structure on the way to Summerside that used Sea Cans as it's foundation?

I've heard of it. Is it located by the first roundabout?

see2xu · Addicted!

Love the old Sterling crane truck. I was the MC at the opening of the St. Thomas plant, May of '92, and the undertaker at its funeral, March of '09. Great truck, just not enough traction in the market, and with the world collapsing and no assurance that the company could fund its losses with borrowings, so the end was ordained. No fan of Jerry Dias - he was the "international" rep at the time - but this one wasn't on the CAW (now UniFor).

65Camino · Uber Guru

Pontiacanada wrote:
65Camino wrote:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get rid of the stuff ?
You can't be a true Darryl if you think like that. I have real good stuff!

Every time I look in a mirror Im reminded I am real. Better then pinching myself.

-- Edited by 65Camino on Friday 18th of December 2020 10:55:45 PM

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Yes

Pontiacanada wrote:

I've heard of it. Is it located by the first roundabout?

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see2xu wrote:
Love the old Sterling crane truck. I was the MC at the opening of the St. Thomas plant, May of '92, and the undertaker at its funeral, March of '09. Great truck, just not enough traction in the market, and with the world collapsing and no assurance that the company could fund its losses with borrowings, so the end was ordained. No fan of Jerry Dias - he was the "international" rep at the time - but this one wasn't on the CAW (now UniFor).

It just so happens that the owner's father's first name is Sterling. The owner told me that Sterling was a combination of Freightliner and Ford and was used for crane trucks mostly.

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

good idea i will not be building anything else around here lumber and beaurocrat red tape is the reason and im sick of it darryll do u know how much 1 can weighs?

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

timbuk wrote:
good idea i will not be building anything else around here lumber and beaurocrat red tape is the reason and im sick of it darryll do u know how much 1 can weighs?

Marked on the door of all of them, tare 4585 lbs, is the empty weight.

Sterlings were the old ford Louisville, renamed after Ford sold off their heavy truck plant to freightliner. Still see quite a few on the road, dump trucks, straight trucks, plus they sold a smaller one about the size of an f450. Sterling brand was very short lived, late 90s to 2009.

see2xu · Addicted!

Ford sold its medium and heavy truck business to Freightliner, in 97, to open up capacity for light trucks. The Sterling product was the replacement for the Louisville Fords that were ubiquitous in Canada, in my younger days.

Freightliner converted the St. Thomas plant to produce Sterlings, which it did until it closed.

But, there was a reason Ford disposed of it - it wasnt very profitable. And, a strategic blunder was eliminating the sleeper cab offering, to focus Sterling on the work truck market, as you say, cranes, dumps, day cab tractors, etc. It also took them out of roughly 2/3s of the on-highway market, and even more when you consider that fleet buyers often run both, and want to have common equipment for their drivers and shops, so it took the brand out of consideration for many other accounts, that would bought day cab tractors.

Some blamed the dealer network, almost entirely Ford dual dealers, whose interests included F150s and Explorers, as well as big trucks, but I think we might have pulled it through, had not the financial crisis intervened, regardless. Lots of em still running, today.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

There was also a "Sterling Bullet" based on the Dodge Ram

https://blog.consumerguide.com/what-was-the-sterling-bullet/

Sterling Bullet versus Dodge Ram

see2xu · Addicted!

Yup. And there was also a Fuso Canter rebadged as a Sterling 360. Trying to give the dealers a broader product range, along with a "Night Shift" sleeper cab that was introduced to the market in June of '08 (in Vancouver!), but never made it into production because the brand was discontinued. The Chrysler divorce would have brought the Bullet to an end, anyway, when the next generation of pickups was launched, a year later.

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DonSSDD wrote:
timbuk wrote:
darryl do u know how much 1 can weighs?
Marked on the door of all of them, tare 4585 lbs, is the empty weight.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

For anybody looking to get one of these, be careful. There are a lot of scam artists out there now posing as fake container sellers:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shipping-container-delivery-scam-fraud-1.5864806

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MC wrote:
For anybody looking to get one of these, be careful. There are a lot of scam artists out there now posing as fake container sellers:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shipping-container-delivery-scam-fraud-1.5864806

There's a scam for everything it seems.

Wanna buy a shipping container cheap Mark? wink

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Pontiacanada wrote:
MC wrote:
For anybody looking to get one of these, be careful. There are a lot of scam artists out there now posing as fake container sellers:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shipping-container-delivery-scam-fraud-1.5864806
There's a scam for everything it seems.
Wanna buy a shipping container cheap Mark?

LOL... sure! Just tell me where to send the money. Is cash OK?

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

I was talking to the guy that supplied me with my storage containers last Fall. He said that they have gone up in price by 2,000.00 per container and are hard for him to get. Another fallout from high lumber prices.