House Trailer frame Recycling

[blumoon]

Hi, I have a question for ya all, up here where i live there is alot of older 12 and 14 wide house trailers that the county wont let people move to live in anymore anything older then a 1978 is not allowed. So there is a few people strip the house part off of it and have this gangle frame left, no much good for making a pull trailer with out a lot of cutting and welding and down sizing, so my question is why couldn't you cut the frame at say for example 25 feet, make two sections and if you wanted 12 foot walls go and notch the frame at 12 feet, at what ever angle you want for rafters weld together both sections and then set it up right, leaving the perlins if you will still in place, instant 12 or 14 wide by 24 foot section of clearspan building. weld two sections together and have a full 24x24 metal framed building, set it on concrete foundation cover with metal or plywood.. sure looks inviting to me,hope you understand what i'm trying to say,being the price of steel or lumber these days , why not recycle, sorry for being so long winded......

[Jim-Tx]

I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as it can support the roof load. I've see pics of guys taking 2 of those Chinese shipping containers like you see on trains and spacing them apart with a roof between them. Instant shed with some good inside storage. Nothing wrong with recycling!

[Rocky D]

Sounds like a great project. go for it!

[Hotfoot]

I like it, Blumoon!

[Thurman]

Hey, Jim-TX, I read an article where a man in Colorado is taking those overseas shipping containers and making apartments out of them. He got started making them for field hands that pick crops. The field owners would rent them out to them as they migrated through. NOW- he has landed a nice military contract to supply units to military bases that are expanding under the last BRAC re-alignment. FT. Wainwright in Fairbanks, AK. has been considered to receive between 2000 to 3000 of these units. Each has more room than today's military barracks. They are built with all electrical. plumbing, and HVAC installed. Just pour one long concrete/asphalt pad, place them side by side, with a little spacing, and instant housing. They can even be placed on top of each other for two story housing. Not bad-complete build in Colorado, trucked to a NE dock, ship freight to Alaska, trucked to Wainwright, and installed. Maybe I can get one for my Mother-in-Law , Thanks, David

[grayw0lf]

That sounds like a great idea. There are lots of old trailers, campers, & broke down buses around the lakehouse. I think every yard comes standard with at least one abandoned place.

[JSSEC]

It was costing more to return the containers with high fuel cost so USA has an abundance of them

[Chuck U&R]

USA has an abundance of them

And nothing to put in them.

[usmcpop]

Blumoon,

Somewhere I've seen pictures of a shed roof made with trailer frame material, but I can't find the forum thread now. Good use of recycled steel.

[CF1975]

USA has an abundance of them

And nothing to put in them.

funny but sad....

[SpyGuy]

Hey, Jim-TX, I read an article where a man in Colorado is taking those overseas shipping containers and making apartments out of them. He got started making them for field hands that pick crops. The field owners would rent them out to them as they migrated through. NOW- he has landed a nice military contract to supply units to military bases that are expanding under the last BRAC re-alignment. FT. Wainwright in Fairbanks, AK. has been considered to receive between 2000 to 3000 of these units. Each has more room than today's military barracks. They are built with all electrical. plumbing, and HVAC installed. Just pour one long concrete/asphalt pad, place them side by side, with a little spacing, and instant housing. They can even be placed on top of each other for two story housing. Not bad-complete build in Colorado, trucked to a NE dock, ship freight to Alaska, trucked to Wainwright, and installed. Maybe I can get one for my Mother-in-Law , Thanks, David

http://www.containercity.com/

[MrMister]

This may help you

I've seen this Container building in Berlin some month ago.

Container buildings


Container buildings are a fascinating part of modern architecture. Maybe even of future Architecture.
in particular in times of "green movement"

[Blacksmith]

I'm considering using containers one day - looks like a quick way to make a shop. Cut out a couple of windows, run some power in conduit ...

[ptsideshow]

They have been doing the buildings in Europe for years. Whether it is homes, offices or commercial uses. Biggest problem is here in the states the local building codes and such.
A wiki about intermodal housing link


Shipping-container-housing.com link

Since they only have a life span of 20 years when in there interned working use. Here in the states they have slowly been accepted most locals as temporary or permanent storage (with the proper rat wall type foundation)

shipping container building basics link



This is one using a clear span car type port from Tek supply.

Here is their link shows a lot of information as the make any number of clear span building and custom fabric covers/roofing

[Sberry]

I wish made more effort to gather them up when plentiful, I have whittled my pile to slivers. I have built a lot of stuff from them, have a couple jobs yet for shelves and one more trailer. The shapes and weight are ideal for lot of projects, we even use it right down to cross members and wing supports. I had a chance to buy some last fall and goofed. I had some 8 inch, wanted some more 10.
Built some shelves from them. Dont have pics on this comp,,, but 1200 sq ft of them in my storage building.