South-west of Toowoomba in what used to be dairy country and is now mostly grain and mixed farming. Pittsworth is a tidy small town with generous blocks and a district of family-run properties around it, and a container is a very common sight on both.
Around Pittsworth it's mostly storage on properties running a mix of cropping and cattle, workshop overflow in town, dry secure space for people who've moved out from Toowoomba for the block, and hay and fencing gear kept away from the weather. Every one of those is a slightly different specification, and it's quicker to sort out by voice than off a price list. One call gets grade, availability and cartage to Pittsworth in one go.
| Container | Used from | New from |
|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 |
Guide pricing only, ex GST — what you pay delivered depends on where you are and what's in the yard that week. Ring (07) 4516 5999 and we'll give you a real number, not a range. Freight to Pittsworth is quoted with the container, so the number you're given is the number you pay.
A steady share of our Pittsworth deliveries go to people who've bought a few acres after years on a Toowoomba suburban block. The pattern is always the same: everything that was in the garage now has nowhere to live, the shed is two years away, and the mower and the trailer are sitting under a tarp getting old fast.
A 20ft solves it in a week for a fraction of what a shed costs, and it holds resale value in a way that a tarp and good intentions do not. If a shed does eventually get built, the container either goes in it, beside it, or gets sold on for close to what it cost.
A container full of hay is one of the few storage jobs where sealing it up tight is exactly the wrong instinct. Baled fodder carries moisture and keeps releasing it, and in a closed steel box that moisture has nowhere to go but onto the underside of the roof and back down into the top of the stack. Mould follows, and you lose more than you saved.
The answer is airflow rather than a better seal. Louvres high at both ends, bales up on pallets or bearers rather than straight on the floor, and a gap between the stack and the walls so air can actually circulate. Done that way a container keeps fodder in better condition than an open-sided shed, because the rain and the birds stay out.
Same principle applies to bagged feed and seed. It is not the roof that ruins it, it is the air that gets trapped in with it.
The town blocks around Pittsworth are large by anyone's standard and the streets are wide, so residential deliveries are generally simple. District deliveries are the usual Downs equation — good going when it's dry, no going at all when the black soil is wet. The other thing worth flagging out here is the last gateway: a lot of them were built to a width that suited a tractor and a trailer in about 1975, and a container overhangs a truck by enough to make that a problem. Measure the gate, not the track.
Standard requirements sit on top of all that: a surface that holds weight, an unobstructed approach, and no wires, limbs or awnings above. If you're unsure, photographs let us confirm the vehicle before quoting — the full list is in our access guide.
Yes — Pittsworth, Southbrook, Brookstead and the country either side are a regular run for us. Freight is quoted with the container so the number you're given is the number you pay.
A firm level spot, four blocks or sleepers for the corner castings, and a clear approach with nothing overhead. If the gateway is old, measure the width before we load — that's the one that catches people out around here.
Describe what's going in it. That's a much faster conversation than a spec table.