New shipping container for bagged feeds - keeping from rats gnawing floor.. ideas?

[Chasingmytail]

The current shipping container has had it its got so many holes plus the rats have taken to gnawing through the floor. Went in there yesterday and rat poo and bags ripped open. No matter what metal plates I cover the holes they spend the night making a new hole.

So Im looking at a secondhand shipping container but want to keep this one vermin free from the start. How do I do this? Even if I plate over the top I dont want the floor wrecked underneath.

Best way forward?

 

[Robert K]

Buy an refrigerator container these are all steel no wooden floor to worry about

 

[Kidds]

Get on top of your rat problem should be on the list.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Stand it on a concrete slab or yard, if it isn't already, and fill it in securely around the sides and ends.

 

[Chasingmytail]

Stand it on a concrete slab or yard, if it isn't already, and fill it in securely around the sides and ends.

thats a good point. They are usually raised so difficult to make a pad to fit and the cost of the concrete infill. Can rats gnaw through concete?

 

[Chasingmytail]

Get on top of your rat problem should be on the list.

Yes I do but they usually come back in force and with the mass availability of food in this easy store. Suppose never be rat free.

 

[PSQ]

Can rats gnaw through concete?

Not if they’re dead.
Why not just plate the existing container floor with full sheets of chequer plate and tech screws?
You also need to sit down with your JR, and explain that it needs to up its game: forklift under one end of the container and let the dog fly, the best sport there is!

 

[Grassman]

Could you Lift the container up a foot so its not a safe environment underneath for the rats?

 

[Hesstondriver]

Could you Lift the container up a foot so its not a safe environment underneath for the rats?

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put it on piles / or blocks and build a step up to the door too

 

[happycows]

Surely a bin got to be best way forward.
This 18 ton cost me £3k delivered from Birmingham to Devon 2 weeks ago.
fed up with vermin with bulk tipped.

 

[Tim G]

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put it on piles / or blocks and build a step up to the door too

The old ideas are the best!

 

[KB6930]

But one with a steel floor. We've got 1 as a chemical store it's totally sealed

 

[Martyn]

Surely a bin got to be best way forward.
This 18 ton cost me £3k delivered from Birmingham to Devon 2 weeks ago.
fed up with vermin with bulk tipped.

Who did you buy it through? thanks

 

[Chasingmytail]

Surely a bin got to be best way forward.
This 18 ton cost me £3k delivered from Birmingham to Devon 2 weeks ago.
fed up with vermin with bulk tipped.

No cos its mixed bag food for the handful of hens, sheep nuts left over, an all rounder, bags of salt and bits and pieces its a general farm food store. We are organic so the food is very expensive and hate having bags broken and waste.

 

[Chasingmytail]

Not if they’re dead.
Why not just plate the existing container floor with full sheets of chequer plate and tech screws?
You also need to sit down with your JR, and explain that it needs to up its game: forklift under one end of the container and let the dog fly, the best sport there is!

Cos the container has had it, its old and rusted too many and the door is timber and broken - its rubbish.

Our JR was 15 last week shes no longer up to any work. Love her she was brillant.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Could you Lift the container up a foot so its not a safe environment underneath for the rats?

look at those old barns that are on mushrooms of stone, so the rats couldn't climb up

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[roscoe erf]

steel floor if it hasn't got one fit one the wooden floors in shipping containers aren't that thick or much cop

 

[happycows]

Who did you buy it through? thanks

Bin was £2200 Ebay and haulier was N D Jeans in somerset.

 

[PSQ]

Cos the container has had it, its old and rusted too many and the door is timber and broken - its rubbish.

Our JR was 15 last week shes no longer up to any work. Love her she was brillant.

Newer container it is then, now available with steel floors from Hapag-Lloyd.
And a young apprentice for your JR to pass her knowledge on to. A pup always breathes life into an older dog, whether they like I or not...

 

[Farmer_Joe]

cats,

some random cat turned up last year and left 5 kittens,

we have kept 2 as semi wild give em a bit but they go hunting ive seen them with dead rats, since then ive not baited and ive seen nowt.