BRC launches Storage Container Delivery Service- March 2011

fancy pants · Post by **fancy pants** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:14 pm

http://storage.burningman.com

March 2011
We are excited to announce a new storage option for Black Rock City projects, intended to help our participants, artists and theme camps with storage near the event.

Burning Man is offering participants the option to purchase a 20 foot shipping container and providing a fee-based storage and delivery service to and from the event. The goal is to promote cooperation amongst participants to share storage, minimize fuel consumption caused by repeat shipping each year, and improve safety on the highways by reducing the amount of large-scale hauling entering BRC each year. This may also allow participants to build on and improve on previous years endeavors, leading to grander camps, projects, and creative ideas all around. We look forward to watching how this option might enhance and expand what's possible in Black Rock City!

More information and links to sign up @
http://storage.burningman.com

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Trishntek · Post by **Trishntek** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:06 pm

I like the idea, but the limited access to my own stuff is an absolute deal breaker.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:41 am

Ditto to what Trishntek said.

Our entire Village agree's thats the biggest problem with the awesome idea.

We don't just burn that week....we burn all year long!!!

dj_john69 · Post by **dj_john69** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:08 pm

This sounds ideal for overseas burners and some burners who dont want to deal with hauling their shade structures, tents, ice chest, carpet and what ever else back to their homes.

Smart ideal if ya ask me.

alt12 · Post by **alt12** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:01 pm

this would be great if there were away to fill our water containers. As is, we'd have to rent storage space to store our 10-12 55 gallon water drums and a truck to transport them to a water fill station and then to the playa anyway which totally negates the point.

If there were a way to fill the water tanks we would be very interested. As others have mentioned, access during the year would also be important it allows us to organize, sort, clean and discard stuff during mid-year visits to the playa...

andy · Post by **andy** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:19 pm

I agree with the posters here.

Having rented and used 20' and 40' containers before, the prices are reasonable. $2,500 is a little high for a 20', but maybe with the required painitng it's probably fair. $500/yr is less than you'll pay anywhere in the Bay Area certainly. $300 for a round-trip is actually a little high, I've paid less for a 40' pulled from the port of Oakland and driven 40 miles and back, and I suspect that the containers are being stored fairly close to BRC.

The playa-only access is a real issue. Even burners coming from Australia have to maintain their stuff - clean it, repair it between burns, etc. Finally, any time you have a new artpiece you have to transport it to the playa the first time anyway.

Perhaps an alternate solution for BMORG to consider would be containers (which could have pallets in them) shipped to various warehouses in various cities - NIMBY in Oakland, similar places in LA, NY, etc. These could be shipped by rail to Gerlach and trucked from there, substantially reducing carbon footprint.

This proposal is definitely more costly than the current BMORG offer on a per-container basis, but I think it's also more useful. The current proposal makes it very difficult to store anything other than structures which need to return year after year and don't need maintenance.