The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bangbang on February 03, 2012, 09:55:07 pm
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Our 2007 model from our previous house
is now a water butt!
It's great just lift the lid and scoop!
( filled from the goat-shed guttering)
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Horse feed bins ;D
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rat proof pig feed bins :thumbsup: :farmer:
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Not convinced about that Robert - they chewed a hole in the lid of mine - either them or mice. ::)
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Hiding places from police helicopters using infra red night detection devices ;D
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Sorry Brucklay, I didn't mean to take anything away from - or make light of your post. :-*
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Annie squirrels will chew the lids rats can climb but not up a dust bin like the ones that are used now :farmer:
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Hiding places from police helicopters using infra red night detection devices ;D
:thumbsup: Will remember to leap into a wheelie bin next time the airborne rozzers are after me. Keep watching Police! Camera! Action! and you'll see smallholders all over Britain diving for cover into their wheelie bins...!
Interesting about the rats, though. They're brilliant for feed.
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I don't know the logistics, but my cousin uses hers to take water to her horses in a paddock.
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we have 9 bins for feed and only one was ever chewed at by rats one of them brown composting bins with vent holes at the bottom platted it with steel the little fury's could not chew through that then :thumbsup: :farmer: jobs a good un
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Putting rubbish in ::)..............................................mind you, some years ago I used to park my lovley VW Camper behind my little house and one day I revered onto one of them and it took a lot to get the thing from under the van, no damage at all!! As I am short its always hard to get to the bottom of the things to clean them out!!
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Hay soaker. We put a water tap at the bottom for emptying - actually a honey tap.
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Last time I was on skye I saw one that was converted into a quad bike trailer for putting a ewe in. The lid became a ramp, the front was cut out and replace with weld mesh and the whole lot was mounted on an axel with a draw bar! Most amusing! Just down the road was a green house constructed from to bus shelters that had been pushed face to face! Make do and mend at its very best!
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Brilliant. I love gazing at allotments for the same reason, we're too out of touch with that 'reuse, recycle, save save save' post-war mentality (as a nation, that is.) . Sofa/telly/etc's broken, buy a new one on 10 year credit....... God. Mind you, you need some skills and tools to be able to convert things from one use to another.
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ride em like a go cart down a steep hill! halfcut of course ;)
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OK you lot, give Brucklay 's bin back
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we found a wheelie bin in our burn so use it in the veggie patch for collecting weeds.
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Gave me an idea, I could make a charriot for our dogs to pull around the forest...I think I would suit a green wheelie bin!! ;)
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You'd get some strange looks, Sandy!
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:thumbsup:
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Our council give us bags for plastics (orange mesh) and cardboard (blue) together with the red box for paper and the blue box (divided) for tins and glass. It makes the front garden very cluttered particularly when windy and the bags blow round emptying themselves all over the place. We use our spare wheelie bin for storing the bags out of the way.
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What do you mean MG of M - spare wheelie bin - did you buy if off the back of a lorry yesterday - is is green??
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It was in our back garden when we moved in. It's a grey one so for household rubbish. we also have a green wheelie bin for garden waste. I don't know how people manage when they have no front gardens. They must have to wheel the bins through their houses.
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;D ;D Thought is funny in Perthshire when I was there that the town got green (grass waste) bins before anyone else for their postage stamp that you could put in a supermarket carrier!! Oh no you can't have one in the countryside we don't go that far!!
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I remember being sooo mad when they were introduced...I said so many people would have to keep thier bins outside ther front doors...we do h ave more waste now BUT, when I first go married all we had was one normal dustbin and they came to your back garden to empty it, now they all have to be out the front although we got a privallage of having bin bags to put outside as our house was up steps....Its all gone crazy and we often take a trip to the tip with stuff!!!! Now like little towns and villages have wheelie bins out the front on the street...not good at all!!
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We live up a farm track, we are still on black plastic bags (different coloured bags for recycled stuff) because the main vehicle can't get to us, they send a LandRover, I just hope they don't come up with the idea we should take it to the end of the lane. A friend up near New Deer was telling me he would tie theirs to the back of his van and leave it at the lane end, one day he forgot to leave it behind ??? ??? ;D
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We have a truck and a guy come to collect our rubbish - I have to get all the bags out the wheelie bin and put all the sacks in a pile as straining to reach into a bin to get rubbish that he is paid to collect and employed to do may give him back problems at a later date, apparently.
Does my head in in the summer cos everyone just treats the wheelie bins - as a bin and just puts stuff in it out the bag - so my 102 uses for a wheelie bin - is cleaning smelly decomposed half eaten rotted stuff out of. ;)
Baz
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Well I'm sorry but I think wheelie bins are far better than all the rubbish we used to see lying about when I was a child and when my own kids were young - cardboard boxes or black bin bags which were raided by cats and dogs and the contents spread all over the place. These are far more hygienic and tidy.
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back to the uses...
we have three wheelie bins:
1) for the rubbish for the council that we don't either reuse, recycle, compost, feed to something, incinerate etc
2) Goat food storage (ex-council compost bin - I keep my compost thanks very much!)
3) a bright blue one (off e-bay) for storing chicken food - the chicken food bucket is blue so thought we'd have it matching!
Wheelie bin number 2 is also the one that transported 2 little pigs across the garden to their new home!
We enticed them in with food, tipped it upright and wheeled/carried the girls one at a time.
Unfortunately, when the time comes to move them again, I think they'll be a little too big & heavy... :pig:
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Take a look at some of the little villages that have no drives like where we used to live, now instead of bin bags out on the day of collection and any left over rubbish cleared up, Wheelie bins left all over the pavements and no where for them to go....they certainly can do some dammage, my poor car wing is dented now due to one blowing on it. Wheelie bins are great for people with decent drives or acsess to their backs garden but rows of back to back houses like in a lot of towns, they tend to look a mess..just hope we do not end up with bar coded ones otherwise nieghbours can pop something wrong in one and you end up with a fine!!!!! I do have a job cleaning them out with my short arms so I leave the lid up and hope it rains into one, we have 4 wheelie bins....as well so we could hide a family from the police if need be!! Ummmm ::) maybe I could hire them out!
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We use a wheelie bin liner to avid the problem of cleaning although there is a man who comes round and cleans them for a fee.
Annie, I agree they are better than black bag lying around. It's the number of bins for various things that annoy me. Both my daughters (one in Liverpool and the other in Poole in Dorset) have one wheelie bin for rubbish, one for recycling and a garden waste bin. We have one wheelie bin for rubbish, one for garden waste. then one box for paper another box for tins and glass, a blue bag for cardboard (and if it doesn't fit in they won't take it) and an orange net bag for plastics. Then there's the small plastic bags for batteries and light bulbs. The council are also talking about introducing bins for food waste.
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In our small (very) rural village we have a communal recycling cage for the recycling bags and a communal large bin which are emptied every week.
We bought 2 wheelie bins on ebay for the workshop; to take, and keep dry, all the odds-and-sods pieces of leftover wood/pallets that end up on the floor after Moh's 'projects'! When full up, we wheel them round the back to the cellar entrance and use the contents for kindling to light the woodburner that feeds the central heating.
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If you drill a few holes in the bottom to let water out ,and a drill a half inch hole in the front about 3 inches from the bottom then connect a wallpaper stripper, this makes a great hay steamer if you have a horse with dust allergy.
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If you drill a few holes in the bottom to let water out ,and a drill a half inch hole in the front about 3 inches from the bottom then connect a wallpaper stripper, this makes a great hay steamer if you have a horse with dust allergy.
I can confirm that
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I can see an upsurge in the "liberation" of wheelie-bins coming ;) ;D ;D
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before our paper one was liberated from our road end, it was used during the winter (when all paper rubbis was burned on the fire) it was used as a rat catcher -
small pile of grain/peanut butter in the bottom of it
lid left open and positioned next to the log pile,
if you were lucky the next morning there would be rats in the bottom of it unable to get out due to the steep sides
method of dispatch was up to the finder, usually shooting in the head with an air rifle goo shots didn't damage the bin, or drowning - not the most humane way i agree but...
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We bought another brown bin from the Council. £40 it was, one-off charge, bin remains our property and it is emptied for free. We fill it with chicken poo -its getting a bit stinky and will be quite bad in Summer. I suppose at that stage they will refuse to empty it.