Timber and grazing country in the Orara Valley, halfway between Grafton and Coffs and served by neither particularly well. We come straight down the Orara Way, which makes Glenreagh a more sensible run from our yard than the map suggests.
Glenreagh enquiries usually turn out to be about timber, milling and machinery gear on the working blocks, equipment and feed storage on the rural residential lots up the valley, secure storage for people building slowly on land they have owned for years, and overflow for trades who live out here and work in Coffs. Each of those is a slightly different specification, and it sorts out faster by voice than off a price list. One call covers grade, availability and cartage to Glenreagh.
| Size | Used from | New from |
|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 |
Starting prices, ex GST. The grade the job actually needs is the bigger variable. Delivery into Glenreagh is part of the price we give you, not an extra worked out later.
Because it is on the way. Everything we deliver to Coffs, Woolgoolga, Sawtell and the coast south of here leaves the yard heading in this direction, and the Orara Way is a genuine alternative route rather than a detour. That makes cartage to Glenreagh better than people expect when they compare it to the distance on a map.
It is also a district that gets treated as an afterthought by suppliers at both ends — too far from Coffs to be a local job, too far from Grafton to be an easy one. We do not think of it that way, and if you have been quoted something eye-watering for freight into the valley, it is worth a second opinion.
Two practical points for blocks with trees close in. The first is roof litter. A container under a canopy collects leaves and bark in the corner castings and along the roof edge, and that debris holds water against the steel indefinitely. Clearing it twice a year does more for the life of the container than anything else you can do.
The second is fire. A steel container is not a fire shelter and nothing here should be read as suggesting it is, but where it sits relative to fuel matters for what is inside it. Clear ground around a container is worth having for the same reasons clear ground around a shed is worth having, and it also happens to be where the container will last longest anyway.
The valley itself is easy enough — the Orara Way is a proper road and the flat country beside it takes a truck without argument. The difficulty is what happens after you turn off it. Hinterland blocks here have driveways that were cut into a slope for a four-wheel drive, not surveyed for a rigid with twelve metres of steel on the back, and a surprising number of them cross a creek or a causeway on the way in. Grade, gradient changes and overhanging timber are the three things that most often decide the vehicle. None of them means no — a crane truck reaching in from a firmer position solves most of it — but they all mean the question is worth asking before the truck is booked rather than when it arrives. If your driveway is the sort where you slow down for the second gully, tell us.
Common to every job wherever it is: something firm underneath, enough length to line up, and open air above the placement. Where that is in doubt we would rather look at photographs than guess. Full detail in getting a container onto your block.
Less than most people assume, because Glenreagh is on our route south rather than off it. Cartage is quoted with the container so you get one delivered figure — ring (02) 5616 9099 with the address and what you are after.
Often, but the vehicle changes. A tilt-tray needs a straight run and reasonably even grade. Where the driveway climbs, bends or crosses a causeway, a crane truck placing the container from a firmer position is usually the answer. Photos of the approach settle it quickly.
Ring and we will tell you what is in the yard today and what the run out to you looks like.
Or skip the form entirely.
Call (02) 5616 9099