20' Standard
Your workhorse box. Eight and a half feet tall, eight wide, twenty long. Holds about 1,170 cubic feet of whatever you need to keep dry. Good for tool storage, feed, or a tidy little jobsite lockup.
Steel boxes, plain and simple — since 1998
We sell honest shipping containers
and we don't dress 'em up to sell 'em.
Buckhorn Containers is a family yard out past the county road, where we buy used sea cans off the rail, look each one over ourselves, and sell 'em to the ranchers, builders, and hobby-shop folks who keep this country running. If a box has a soft floor or a bad seam, we'll tell you so. If it's a good box, we'll tell you that too — and then we'll put it on a truck and get it out to your place.
01 — Inventory
What's sitting out in the yard
We keep forty to sixty containers on the ground at any given time. Stock turns over, so if you don't see exactly what you want, give us a holler — we've usually got something incoming on the next train.
40' Standard
Twice the length, a whole lot more room. Great for equipment shops, hay cover, or the start of a barndominium if you're clever with welding. Double doors on one end, solid panel on the other.
40' High Cube
Same length as a standard forty, but a foot taller — nine and a half feet of headroom inside. If you're planning to run shelving, or you just don't like ducking, this is the box you want.
10' Short
Not a full-size import — these get cut and re-capped from 40-footers. Handy for tight spots, small acreage, or backyard storage where a twenty is too much box. We build 'em in-house.
Double-Door "Tunnels"
Cargo doors on both ends. Makes loading easy when you can drive straight through, or split the box between two tenants on a ranch. We get these in now and again — ask before we sell it.
As-Is & Rough
Boxes with dents, paint scuffs, or a tired floor. We sell 'em cheap and we're upfront about what's wrong. Fine for a deer camp, a scrap-steel vault, or somebody who likes projects.
02 — Modifications
We cut, weld, insulate, and paint
A container on its own is a pretty good box. With a little work, it's a workshop, a pump house, a hunting cabin, or a tack room that won't blow away. Our shop handles the common stuff right here.
A
Man doors & roll-ups
Standard 36" steel man doors, framed and weather-sealed. Roll-up doors from six foot up to the full width of the end wall. We flash 'em in right so you don't get drip puddles inside come spring.
B
Windows & vents
Sliding windows with security bars, fixed pane for light, or louvered vents if you're storing hay or anything that needs to breathe. Turbine vents on the roof work wonders on a hot July afternoon.
C
Electrical & lighting
Conduit runs, LED strip lighting, outlets, and a weatherproof exterior panel so you can tie into your generator or shore power. Our electrician is licensed and doesn't cut corners on ground rods.
D
Insulation & interior
Closed-cell spray foam is what we recommend out here — two inches on the walls and ceiling keeps the worst of the summer heat and winter cold from cooking or freezing whatever's inside. Plywood or steel liner if you want it finished.
E
Paint & lettering
Factory paint's usually beat up by the time a box gets to us. We'll sandblast the rust, prime it, and shoot it whatever color you want. Ranch names, hunt club logos, outfit numbers — all done by hand in the shop.
F
Custom builds
Pump houses with heated floors, shooting-range baffles, generator enclosures, pesticide lockers, workshop combos with a roll-up and a side door. If you can draw it on a napkin, we can probably build it.
03 — Delivery
We bring the box. You tell us where to set it.
We run our own tilt-bed trucks, which means you don't need a crane and you don't need a forklift rated for 8,000 pounds. The driver backs in, tips the bed, and slides the container off onto whatever ground you've prepped — gravel, railroad ties, or concrete runners all work fine.
We deliver across most of the region. For longer hauls we'll give you a straight quote, no hedging. If your road is tight, steep, or soft in the rainy months, tell us up front — we'd rather turn the trip down than tear up somebody's driveway.
- Tilt-bed delivery — no crane needed
- Need about 80 feet of clear straight-line backup for a 40-footer
- We'll walk the drop spot with you before we set it down
- Two containers per truck when the route makes sense
04 — Our Folks
A family operation, not a call center
Buckhorn was started by Dale Reinhardt in 1998, after he spent fifteen years hauling intermodal freight and got tired of watching perfectly good boxes go to scrap. It's still a family shop. When you ring the yard, you're talking to one of us.
Dale Reinhardt
Founder / Yard Dog
Started the outfit with one box and a borrowed tilt-bed. Still walks every container before it leaves the yard. Knows more about corrugated steel than any one person probably ought to.
Marla Reinhardt-Coe
Operations & Logistics
Dale's daughter. Runs the schedule, the books, and the delivery routing. If a driver's running late, she's the one already calling you to say so.
Travis "Hutch" Hutchins
Shop Foreman
Runs the mod shop. Twenty-plus years of welding under his hood. Built pretty much every custom pump house and generator box we've shipped in the last decade.
05 — The Way We See It
A few things we believe, for what it's worth
A box should outlast the paperwork.
These things were built to cross oceans forty times. Set one on decent ground and it'll be here longer than you will. We don't sell anything we wouldn't put on our own place.
Tell the customer the bad news first.
If a box has patch panels, we'll say so. If a door's been sprung and re-hung, you'll know before you buy it. It costs us a sale sometimes. It also means we get the same folks calling back ten years later.
Cheap and right aren't the same thing.
We're not the lowest price in the region and we won't pretend to be. What we are is fair, and what you get is a box that shows up when we said it would, looking like what we said it'd look like.
Handshakes still count.
Most of our business comes from ranchers and builders who've been buying from us for fifteen, twenty years. We'd like to keep it that way. So we act like we want to see you again next spring.
06 — Get In Touch
Ready to talk boxes?
Best way to reach us is to stop by the yard during business hours and walk the inventory yourself. Coffee's usually on. If that's a long drive for you, get a referral from someone who's bought from us — we'll make time.
Yard Hours
Monday – Friday, 7:30 to 4:30
Saturday mornings by appointment
Service Area
Serving the Intermountain West — ranches, farms, and jobsites across the high desert and foothills.
New Work
Currently serving existing clients and referrals. If you've been sent our way by somebody we know, mention their name when you roll in.