Recent content by eureka jim

Wow! That looks great. Did you build it yourself or have it made for you? If you care to share some of the framing choices or have any more pictures I'd sure appreciate it...and I think others would too. Thanks for posting. Jim

It is certainly a gamble and, yes, the land is cheap compared to any of the other islands. I don't claim that I was fully aware of the probability of lava flowing in my back yard when I made my decision to move here but it seemed a reasonable one at the time. Ignorance made my decision easier...

Thanks everyone. It's not practical for me to have my garages 25 miles away from my home. For emergency vehicle storage it's OK. Theft is kind of a local sport here and unattended things attract attention. I primarily want to replace my Costco garage tents with something that looks good in...

Thanks everyone! No doubt that in an emergency moving a small building will be problematic. Although I lean towards a wheeled structure so that I can move it myself, It's too complicated for me. Putting the garage on skids so that I can move it into position to be picked up by a forklift or...

The shipping containers are too narrow for my needs. One of my antique trucks is a flat bed dually that is 100" wide at the mirrors, too wide for a container. My opinion is that the container's best selling point is the ease of buying it but the metal construction isn't the best in an ocean...

Hello niget2002, The area I live in is a rural mix of homes and farms and there are always slow moving rigs on our 2 lane road. During the last emergency I wasn't prepared to move anything but I got lucky. The lava flow that destroyed over 700 homes started about 2 miles from my place and...

I could always go with a 'tiny house style garage' but that would be mean a trailer for each structure...too expensive for me. Better if I can simply bolt a set of axles and tongue on to my framed garage, move it, remove the axles and tongue and mount them on the next garage. I have a 1 acre...

There are trailers available but not mobile homes here. I just started to look for mobile home axles, no luck yet. It's also possible I can find some military surplus that might work. I'll be checking to see if I can source just the axles from the trailer guys.

I appreciate the ideas! For me I think I'm leaning towards a wood framed, including floor, structure. If I build it on skids I can drag it out to where it could be picked up with a sling or big forklift. If I can find axles that work I could just pull it with one of my old trucks which is my...

Thanks for the replies. I have a few of the Costco garage tents now but here the top fabric lasts about a year, maybe 2-3 years for the side panels. They are cheap and easy to put up but don't really give the protection and medium level of security I'm looking for. The shipping containers are...

This is probably crazy but I think I'd like to build a small garage, maybe 10' x 20', or 12' x 20' that can be towed in an emergency. I live in Hawaii just a couple of miles from where the lava flowed in 2018 and having a couple of moveable garages would be a good thing for when the lava flows...