>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^Enzoblue:
What makes this good is that they did everything right and it still went wrong. Shit happens.

Nope, he should have lowered the container immediatly after clearing the two towers, and before turning. There is no way that thing was made for driving or turning with the container that high. And that guy standing behind the lifter is driving me nuts, What the fuck was he doing there?, he provides a perfect distraction for the operator.

Forklift 101.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^Enzoblue:
What makes this good is that they did everything right and it still went wrong. Shit happens.

Nope, he should have lowered the container immediatly after clearing the two towers, and before turning. There is no way that thing was made for driving or turning with the container that high. And that guy standing behind the lifter is driving me nuts, What the fuck was he doing there?, he provides a perfect distraction for the operator.


I totally agree. Although it seems like the container was somehow imbalanced. Perhaps it was improperly packed or the contents shifted?

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>> ^Enzoblue:

What makes this good is that they did everything right and it still went wrong. Shit happens.


Nope, he should have lowered the container immediatly after clearing the two towers, and before turning. There is no way that thing was made for driving or turning with the container that high. And that guy standing behind the lifter is driving me nuts, What the fuck was he doing there?, he provides a perfect distraction for the operator.

>> ^notarobot:

Who put that up there?


What is in it too?

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Shipping container houses were all over the part of Panama I was in a couple decades back. You should see the double-decker ones, really fascinating.

>> ^longde:

The attached article says in the comments that she does have electricity.
I don't have a TV at my house. And we don't let our toddler use any electronics. What's wrong with a shelf full of books and games?
>> ^Shepppard:
I've just got too many questions about this.
Does she still go to school?
Does the kid go to school?
Does she work?
If she does go to school or work, what happens to the kid when she's gone?
(as stated) whose land is she on?
Honestly, I get it. She's doesn't want to conform to the "ideal" form of life. But how far can you go without upsetting your child?
If it were just her, yeah, I'd be fine with it. Novel concept, but no electricity? Granted, you don't need a t.v., you don't need a computer, but it almost seems like the child is going to be oddly out of place later in life because she's being denied those things now.
Who knows, maybe during the day when the kid is hopefully with a babysitter or something she gets her fix.. but her talk of moving the "house" to a barge and just sailing.. Honestly, it's sounding like she's being more selifish then anything.
Edit: it says in the linked story that she's a Babysitter (thus why the other children are there).
Now I'm curious if she's using whatever credentials she went to school for and that's a side job, or if that's her only job.



Toddler to me sounds like a very young child, that's different then one that seems to be 8-10. She can obviously read, But denying your child anything, specifically things that are considered staples of life in the modern age seems like it's just going to either A) Give them a disadvantage later in life, or B) The child will start to harbour resentment towards the parents for not being given something that could have been provided.

However, I'll also assume that your child goes on play-dates? And if they ARE old enough to go to school, then they'll learn all about computers and technology there.

The one we see in the video however doesn't seem to go to school, and therefore is either going to be home-schooled, or no schooled (Just basically learns what mommy sees fit to teach). And when she's older, that's going to be a serious disadvantage.

The attached article says in the comments that she does have electricity.

I don't have a TV at my house. And we don't let our toddler use any electronics. What's wrong with a shelf full of books and games?

>> ^Shepppard:

I've just got too many questions about this.
Does she still go to school?
Does the kid go to school?
Does she work?
If she does go to school or work, what happens to the kid when she's gone?
(as stated) whose land is she on?
Honestly, I get it. She's doesn't want to conform to the "ideal" form of life. But how far can you go without upsetting your child?
If it were just her, yeah, I'd be fine with it. Novel concept, but no electricity? Granted, you don't need a t.v., you don't need a computer, but it almost seems like the child is going to be oddly out of place later in life because she's being denied those things now.
Who knows, maybe during the day when the kid is hopefully with a babysitter or something she gets her fix.. but her talk of moving the "house" to a barge and just sailing.. Honestly, it's sounding like she's being more selifish then anything.
Edit: it says in the linked story that she's a Babysitter (thus why the other children are there).
Now I'm curious if she's using whatever credentials she went to school for and that's a side job, or if that's her only job.

What I heard her say was the body heat from lots of people stayed trapped in the space since it was well-insulated. On a cold day, the heat can't escape.

Am I missing something?

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"It's really well insulated, in fact, it gets too hot."

That means it's not really well insulated.

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The other hard part here in Australia would be getting council approval. LOTS of red tape here for non-traditional dwellings.>> ^spoco2:

Great video, and is something I'd love to do myself... (although not so much that size for our family of six), but as @Boise_Lib said, nowhere in this video do they say where the land came from, nowhere in the linked article does it either.
The land is the most expensive part of owning a house (at least here in Australia it generally is)... so yeah, sure, if you had free land you could do the house build really cheaply, but on a house of say $600K, $400K of that is the land.
So would be very interesting to know about the land.
Also... the gas hot water, we have ones like that, but for mains gas (natural gas), but they run at about $1K... great things to have though, you dial the temp you want the hot water to be, and that's what you get. Great for showers (Used to have one in our last house... sigh )

>> ^chilaxe:

I wanted to do something like this at one point, but you'd need land outside of city limits to avoid breaking housing codes.
Life is simpler when you have less stuff.


I could definitely be happy living like that.

Hey thanks!



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*promote

Even if that ship had went to the navy with it. They'd have to take him to port to unload it in any case more than likely. But I am sure there was also damage to the ship, containers.........plus they lost however much time it took them to reroute for the plane delivery AND the time lost unloading the ship.

Even if he hadn't filed claims for salvage on the plane he'd probably be pretty close to that amount in fuel/time/damage. Plus what would they have done to him if he told the guy to fuck off when he wanted to land on the ship? It could have just as easily went really wrong and punched a hole in the ship killing them all.