Storage Near-playa? Empire/Gerlach? pallet/ship container

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Storage Near-playa? Empire/Gerlach? pallet/ship container

Post by Jesus » Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:32 pm

Hi. Jesus from the Black Rock Roller Disco

We are looking to store the roller disco floor and such near the playa.

Here's what would work well:

We pile everything onto two shipping pallets (or perhaps in a mini/half shipping container), wrapped so they'll survive a year outside, in our camp, and leave 'em.

A big flatbed truck comes and takes 'em away and brings 'em back next year.

It looks it will cost us around $1200 if we transport everything ourselves to a nearby storage place?

I found a couple old (2005) threads, from searching for 'gerlach storage':
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=9230 http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=10208

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Post by mamagrrl » Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:18 pm

Or if your pocketbook's a little smaller than Bruno's $700/yearly, get yourself a small utility trailer, load your sh-tuff into it and park it at Gay's storage in Empire for $300/year. Pull it into camp and place it where you like.

Repeat yearly.

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Post by Jesus » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:58 pm

Thanks, all. Our camp is big enough that a full container would make sense. Just left a message to see how much they're selling containers for.

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Post by Stickygreen » Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:46 pm

Bruno, that guy runs Gerlach
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Post by TomServo » Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:23 am

Hey Jesus, Jeff here. You still have my bar? You can burn it, if it helps. So the ranch won't store the plywood and masonite?
anything worth doing is worth overdoing..

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Post by Jesus » Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:12 pm

TomServo wrote:Hey Jesus, Jeff here. You still have my bar? You can burn it, if it helps. So the ranch won't store the plywood and masonite?
JEFF!!! Hey! Yeah, I think we still have your bar; we had a bar last year, but I don't recall green astroturf. But then, you know how easy it is to get distracted at burning man...

Yeah, D says they don't wanna store it for us no more, so we gotta find $ and do it ourselves. I don't know the details. But it was great to have while it lasted.

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Post by TomServo » Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:21 pm

Jesus wrote:
TomServo wrote:Hey Jesus, Jeff here. You still have my bar? You can burn it, if it helps. So the ranch won't store the plywood and masonite?
JEFF!!! Hey! Yeah, I think we still have your bar; we had a bar last year, but I don't recall green astroturf. But then, you know how easy it is to get distracted at burning man...

Yeah, D says they don't wanna store it for us no more, so we gotta find $ and do it ourselves. I don't know the details. But it was great to have while it lasted. [/i]
If its a burden, ill personally help haul that monstrosity to the burn. Never hauled containers, but y'all got a driver if you need one.
anything worth doing is worth overdoing..

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Post by buckycat » Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:22 pm

The notion of a shipping container plopped at my camp location the week before gates open, and then picked up after the event and stored in Gerlach, makes me very horny.

Bruno's Storage just told me they have no shipping containers currently available for sale in Gerlach. They anticipate that 20' used containers would have purchase price of $2000+ when they become available. He confirmed $400/yr storage, $300 Gerlach-to-playa roundtrip transport.

A local (Salt Lake City) shipping container distributor quoted me $2000 to $2500 to purchase a used 20' shipping container. He indicated that shipping container pricing tends to rise and fall with the price of steel.

Seems like you can currently get a 20 footer for $1500 at a port city.

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Post by MrMullen » Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:21 pm

Stickygreen wrote:Bruno, that guy runs Gerlach
Only on ePlaya, does that mean anything.
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Post by oneeyeddick » Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:31 pm

and in Empire, and in Gerlach, and on tribe, and on facebook, and on etc.etc....
We have an obligation to make space for everyone, we have no obligation to make that space pleasant.

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Post by Elderberry » Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:19 pm

Silly me, I was thinking that the $400.00 per year included the container! :shock:

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