We are not a phone number pointed at somebody else's depot. There is a yard at 1a Reid St, South Grafton, with our sign on it and stock inside it, and you are welcome to come and look at the actual container before it goes on a truck to Yamba, Woolgoolga or anywhere between.
Sales and hire, the Clarence Valley and the Coffs Coast. Freight quoted with the container, ex GST.
Sizes and guide prices in one table so you can compare them without clicking through six pages. Everything here is either standing in the yard or a phone call from being sourced.
| Size | Internal L×W×H | Capacity | Used from | New from | Hire from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | 2.83m × 2.35m × 2.39m | 16m³ | $4,350 | $6,400 | Ask |
| 20ft Containers | 5.90m × 2.35m × 2.39m | 33.2m³ | $2,200 | $3,300 | $27/wk |
| 40ft Containers | 12.03m × 2.35m × 2.39m | 67.7m³ | $2,600 | $5,500 | Ask |
Check the grade before the price. Grade decides whether a container keeps the rain out. Cargo-worthy units are checked wind and watertight at the yard before they are loaded. As-is stock is the cheap end and is not sold watertight: expect a patched panel, a soft spot in the floor or a door seal that has stopped seating, and expect us to show you the fault rather than leave you to find it. New single-trip units arrive sealed and unmarked. For anything that has to stay dry, buy cargo-worthy or new.
Guide prices, ex GST. The delivered figure moves with your address, the grade and what is standing at South Grafton that week, so ring (02) 5616 9099 for an actual number rather than a range.
What is going inside, how long it needs to last and where it has to sit. That is enough for us to say which grade suits — and to say so honestly when the cheaper one will do.
One figure. The cartage to your address is inside it, whether that address is five minutes over the bridge or an hour up the highway at Woolgoolga.
Doors worked, floor sounded, seals looked at. Ask and we will send photographs of your specific container, serial number visible, before delivery.
Tilt-tray for most 10s and 20s, sidelifter for 40s, crane where the access says so. Or bring a truck to South Grafton and take it yourself.
Everyone here remembers 2022. We are not going to sell you steel on the back of it, so here is the plain version.
A cargo-worthy container is sealed against rain from above. Floodwater does not come from above. It comes up to the door seals and it gets in, and once it is in, the box holds it — which is worse, not better. An empty container is also buoyant. Given enough water it will lift off its blocks and go somewhere you did not put it.
What a container genuinely gives you is height, mobility and a dry lockable space. Blocked up on the highest firm ground you have, it keeps gear clear of the sort of water that fills a shed floor. Because it is a box on legs rather than a building, it can be lifted and moved to higher ground ahead of a rise — provided you have left a truck a way in, which is the part people forget. And after a rise, when the shed is a write-off, it is somewhere dry and lockable to keep tools and salvage while you rebuild.
That is the honest case, and it is a good one. Anyone telling you a container will keep floodwater out is telling you something else. There is more in containers and flood risk on the Clarence.
Cargo-worthy used 20ft from $2,200, new single-trip from $3,300. You own an asset that still has real resale value in ten years, and there is no clock running.
Guide prices, ex GST. Grade and freight confirmed on the phone.
How buying works20ft hire from $27 a week. Right for a build, a fit-out, a season on the farm or a job with an end date — no capital tied up and no disposal problem at the end.
Hire units are supplied cargo-worthy. Rates ex GST, delivery quoted separately.
How hire worksFrom the yard at South Grafton we run down the river to Maclean, Yamba and Iluka, up the highway to Woolgoolga, Coffs Harbour, Sawtell and south to Nambucca, and inland to Glenreagh, Coutts Crossing and the hinterland behind Bellingen. Pick your town for local detail.
Size, grade, cartage and a realistic date, in one conversation. No range, no freight surprise afterwards.
Straight answers for the Clarence Valley — what wind and watertight actually covers, why rising water gets past the door seals, why an empty container floats, and how to site one on the flats.
What a tilt-tray, a sidelifter and a crane truck each need, how river silt and coastal sand behave under a loaded vehicle, and the three photos that settle it.
Grades, sizes, salt air, council questions and delivery access on the Coffs Coast — written for people buying their first shipping container.