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Three jobs, written up honestly.

Including the delivery that went to the wrong door, the harvest week we under-reserved for, and the thirty-four watering rigs whose drip outlets clogged in three weeks. Every one of these has a “what went wrong” section, because case studies without one are advertisements.
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The common thread across all three: the container was never the hard part. Disposal logistics, seasonal storage and a five-day watering cycle were the actual problems. In each case the right answer involved rearranging how containers move rather than buying better ones.

From the yard

Rows of used caged IBC totes stacked two high on a concrete pad under an overcast sky
01Graded stock on the outdoor pad, waiting on a wash slot
A single clean 275 gallon caged IBC tote showing its data plate marked 275 Gallon 1041 Liter and Transport 1650 kg max
03The plate carries the capacity and the maximum gross mass. Read it before you fill
Interior of a warehouse with IBC totes racked on shelving and stored on the floor in a range of colours and conditions
08Racked and floor stock under cover, sorted by grade
The Bancroft Avenue reconditioning yard packed with IBC totes, with the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline behind it
San Francisco from the pad — the shortest delivery run we make
A blue tractor unit with a flatbed trailer loaded with strapped IBC totes beside a warehouse roller door
A flatbed loading out — strapped over the cage rail, never over the bottle
A wide view of an outdoor container yard with dozens of stacked IBC totes, trees and blue sky behind
Roughly 1,400 containers on the ground on a normal week
Mixed-condition IBC totes in an outdoor yard under a blue sky, including one heavily stained amber unit
What arrives looks like this: clean, stained and finished, all on one pallet run