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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: zoe_emma on August 27, 2013, 10:47:00 am

Title: Metal beer kegs
Post by: zoe_emma on August 27, 2013, 10:47:00 am

My OH has just been offered 15 metal beer kegs. Being always on the look out for items to reuse/recycle we don't want these to go to waste.

Any ideas on what to do with them ? I've been on pinterest and it seems to be all chairs and urinals(!) which don't really have my interest lol

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: Bionic on August 27, 2013, 10:59:12 am

Cut them in half , either way, and you have feed troughs

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: Bodger on August 27, 2013, 11:20:52 am

Pru gets her water in one that's been cut in half and she's yet to be able to turn it over, while in the meantime, she throws her old sink around like a piece of confetti. :pig: I'd better add that Pru is a GOS sow. :farmer:

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: spandit on August 27, 2013, 11:29:58 am

I cut the top off one and I use it as a large vessel for dyeing blankets etc.

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: john and helen on August 27, 2013, 09:48:35 pm

well one of my mates has made a wood burner out of a old gas bottle.....

bit like this one

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gas-bottle-woodburner-log-burner-chiminea-patio-heater-/111151354668?
pt=UK_Home_Garden_Conservatory_Patio_bbq_Patio_Covers_Heating&hash=item19e123132c (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gas-bottle-woodburner-log-burner-chiminea-patio-heater-/111151354668?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Conservatory_Patio_bbq_Patio_Covers_Heating&hash=item19e123132c)
Keg Wood Burner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWf5xGmUGtc#)

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: Daisys Mum on August 28, 2013, 08:50:56 pm

How about a BBQ ?

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: HesterF on August 28, 2013, 11:27:10 pm

At the risk of stating the obvious, make beer?

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: ballingall on August 29, 2013, 09:29:26 pm

I've seen one made into a really good woodburner- chiminea style. And I have three bases of beer kegs which I use as food bowls for the billy goats as they are really destructive, and they can't destroy these. Though Karamac plays with his and rolls it round the pen on its side...  :innocent:


Beth

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: novicesmallholder on August 30, 2013, 09:59:07 pm

Beer kegs actually belong to the brewery the beer was in. Note you could be buying stolen property. (Used to work in the trade for 15 years).

Title: Re: Metal beer kegs
Post by: zoe_emma on August 31, 2013, 09:11:38 am

Thanks for the ideas guys  ;D

Wood burner and troughs sound good. I didn't think we'd be able to reuse them for brewing - not sure why?

We are not buying them, someone we know has bought a pub, these are from a previous supplier and they won't take them away. He just wants them out of the way.