Container hire across the South Burnett
For work with an end date — a build, a shutdown, a contract, a season. Your money stays in the job, and the box leaves when the work does. From $27 a week ex GST for a 20ft.
- 20ft hire from
- $27/week ex GST
- Grade supplied
- Cargo-worthy
- Delivery
- Quoted separately
- Terms
- Flexible, no fixed minimum
Where the maths turns over
Twelve months or less: hire normally comes out cheaper, and the box goes back on the truck when you are done.
Beyond about two years, owning is ahead, and by more than the weekly-rate arithmetic shows: a sensibly bought used unit holds most of its value. On a farm where the need never goes away — fertiliser, chemical, workshop spill-over — buy it.
Between one and two years it turns on whether the job has a fixed end. Ring and we will lay hire and purchase side by side on one sheet, even when the cheaper line is the one we earn less on. Hire rates are ex GST and exclude delivery and collection, which are quoted separately because they depend on the address and the access.
Three things to sort before the truck comes
Which way the doors face
Decide before delivery, not after. Turning a hire unit round after it lands means booking the truck again. Stand where you will stand every day with your hands full, and face the doors that way.
How it is blocked up
Four bearing points under the corner castings, level along the length and across the width. On red soil this is what keeps the frame square so the doors keep closing. It takes ten minutes and it happens on delivery day or not at all.
What you shut inside it
Do not load damp material and seal it, particularly green fodder or freshly washed gear. Hot days and cold nights make a sealed steel box sweat, and condensation in a closed container will do more damage over a season than the weather outside it would.
Hire — common questions
What does container hire cost?
A 20ft starts from $27 a week, ex GST. Delivery and collection are quoted separately because they depend on the address and the access. Longer commitments come down; a short hire onto a difficult site does not.
How long is the minimum hire?
Short terms are fine and the practical minimum is usually set by the cost of getting the unit there and back rather than by a contract. On a job of a few weeks, ask for both numbers — hired and bought — because the delivery is the same either way and the comparison sometimes surprises people.
Is a hire unit watertight?
Hire units are cargo-worthy grade, checked wind and watertight before they go out. If a seal or a door gives trouble during the hire, ring and we will sort it. As-is grade is a sale-only proposition; we do not hire out units that are not sold watertight.
What happens if I want to keep it?
Say so and we will price the hire unit as a sale, so it stays put. Paying to collect a container and then paying to deliver a nearly identical one is a waste of everybody's money.
What do I need to leave for the collection?
The same access we needed to deliver it. This catches people out more than anything else in hire — a fence, a slab, a new garden bed or a shed built around a container between delivery and collection turns a routine pick-up into a crane job. If the site has changed, tell us before the collection is booked.
Get both numbers before you decide
Tell us the job and the timeline and we will quote it bought and hired, so the comparison is yours to make.
(07) 4141 7699Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm. If we are out on a run, leave a message or send the form and you will get a call back.