Shipping Container Disguised To Look Like A Barn

Shipping Container Disguised To Look Like A Barn BUILDINGS Miscellaneous You won’t find a nicer looking fruit and vegetable stand than the one built by Jim Aira of Gilroy Calif From the front it looks a lot like a shiny red barn but it’s actually a used shipping container The shipping container stands 40 ft long and 8 ft tall The false barn front built over the top is 18 ft tall A pair of rectangular hinged doors built into one side of the container open up to form the display area An electric-powered cooler is built into one part of the shipping container to keep produce fresh A tin roof over the display area provides shade The one-of-a-kind “barn stand” is located on highway 152 just south of Gilroy and 60 miles south of San Francisco “I’ve been selling out of homemade fruit stands for 8 years but most of them were built out of plywood I was having trouble with the fruit rotting because it sat out all day in the heat ” says Aira “With the shipping container’s walk-in cooler I can keep fruit and vegetables cold and bring out only what’s needed for display And at the end of the day all I have to do is close and lock the doors ” He built an insulated room for the cooler that takes up about 25 percent of the container He used 1/2-in thick sheets of plywood to build the false front nailing the sheets to a frame made from 2 by 8’s The top of the barn is dressed up with a 12-in wide lip made by nailing 1 by 3 boards onto 2 by 12’s Aira bought the shipping container used from a private individual for about $3 000 “I spent about $10 000 for the building materials and shipping container and about $5 000 for the cooling system And if I ever want to I can sell the shipping container and cooling system separately if the buyer wants ” notes Aira Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jim Aira 4385 Davidson Ave Gilroy Calif 95020 ph 408 612-6753

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