Jessica P.

When the folks of Pacific Pines Ranch began constructing their shipping container home in a mostly remote area of Oregon, they did so with little metal fabrication experience. Here are the five biggest challenges they’ve faced while building off the grid.

The folks at Pacific Pines Ranch walk through the pros and cons of angle grinders, reciprocating saws, and plasma cutters in an effort to find which tools work best to cut through steel and create openings in their shipping container home.

In the latest from our Off the Grid series, Pacific Pines Ranch tackles one of the biggest challenges it faced while prepping its container house: How to properly remove rust from weathered steel. Here are the tools and techniques it found most useful, especially in a corrosive environment like the Oregon coast.

Two years ago Jessica and Vaillant began their journey of building their dream house out of steel shipping containers in Oregon. This new blog series, Off the Grid, will cover their journey creating Pacific Pines Ranch and the metal fabrication skills they learned along the way.