Look for the word TARE.
It will normally tell you the weight and "It weighs 5000 pounds". It
would have to be a 50 footer, which are rare.
People live in those things in the Philippines .............. Low Cost
Housing.

Stan

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:59:10 -0700 Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
writes:
> If you are looking for someplace to store your Vanagon stuff, and
> have room to put it, look into used containers.  You know, those big
> steel boxes that you see on train flatcars and that are used to load
> cargo on ships.  You can get them used for a few hundred bucks.  I
> just got one that is 20' by 8' by 8', and made of really tough
> steel.  It weighs 5000 pounds, and is rated to hold 75000 pounds of
> stuff.  The whole end opens up.  Too narrow for a garage, but still
> really weatherproof and quite secure storage.  If you put a good,
> concealed shank padlock or four on it, it would take some real work
> to break in.  Kind of neat to store my stuff in a box that has been
> all over the world.
>
> Bill in the Southwest
>

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