A small heritage river village north of Grafton with cane and grazing country around it, sitting low on the Clarence flats. Deliveries here divide neatly into two jobs: tight, careful work in the village itself, and open flat country outside it where the only real question is how much water is still in the ground.
Most of what leaves the yard for Ulmarra ends up as fodder, fencing and machinery storage on the cane and grazing blocks along the river, dry storage for growers who would rather not put another shed up, secure storage for the businesses along the old highway frontage, and household storage on properties where a shed has already been lost once. Any of those we can price today. Tell us the use and the address and you will have a delivered figure and a realistic date in the one call.
| Size | Used from | New from |
|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 |
All figures ex GST and quoted as a guide. Condition and availability set the final number. What you are quoted for a Ulmarra address already has the delivery in it.
There is no point being coy about it in Ulmarra. This is low country, it has been under water within living memory and recently, and anyone buying a container here is thinking about that. So the honest position: a cargo-worthy container is sealed against rain from above. It is not sealed against water rising to the door seals, and once water is in, the box holds it. An empty container is also buoyant and will move in deep enough water.
What a container genuinely offers on this ground is height, mobility and dry lockable space. Blocked up on the highest firm point you have, it keeps gear clear of the common event rather than the catastrophic one. Because it is a box rather than a building it can be lifted and moved with warning — provided you have kept a truck a way in, which is the part people forget. And afterwards it is somewhere dry and lockable while you sort the rest out. The full version is in containers and flood risk on the Clarence.
On the cane and grazing blocks the practical route to the spot is usually a headland or a farm track, and both were built for tractors rather than for a loaded rigid. Headlands in particular are often softer than they look because they carry traffic when the ground is wet and never get a chance to consolidate.
The workable approach is to pick the placement first and then work backwards to whether we can reach it, rather than the other way round. If the good firm spot is a hundred metres from the good firm track, a crane truck reaching in is sometimes cheaper than the alternative. Tell us where you want it and what is between there and the road.
The village itself is a genuine heritage streetscape with narrow frontages, verandah posts close to the kerb and buildings that nobody is going to move for a delivery, so anything going into central Ulmarra gets assessed rather than assumed. Outside the village it is flat river country and the constraint changes completely: the ground. These are some of the lowest-lying farming flats on the Clarence, and the surface can look perfectly trafficable while holding water two hundred millimetres down. A loaded truck finds that out immediately. We would far rather come in a dry stretch than sink a vehicle in a paddock, and we will say so when we quote rather than promising a date we cannot hold after rain. The ferry across to Southgate is not an option for a loaded container truck, so anything on the far bank comes around by road.
The baseline never changes: solid footing, a clear run in, and open sky above the drop. Anything outside that usually means a crane rather than a refusal. Details in the delivery access guide.
Yes, in the right conditions. The limit is ground bearing rather than distance — river-flat silt holds water well below a surface that looks dry, and a loaded truck breaks through it. We would rather move the date to a dry stretch than bog a vehicle, and we will be straight with you about that when we quote.
No. The ferry is not suitable for a loaded container truck, so anything on the Southgate side comes around by road. That affects the cartage figure, so tell us which bank you are on when you enquire.
The yard is at 1a Reid St, South Grafton. Inspect the unit, then have it delivered to Ulmarra.
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