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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: frustratedfarmer on March 30, 2011, 05:08:40 pm

Title: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: frustratedfarmer on March 30, 2011, 05:08:40 pm: Where do people get these from? Looking at sites online but no luck- do you have to approach BT or similar?
I see one in Brucklay's pics and they look great as play things!

Claire :)
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: ambriel on March 30, 2011, 05:12:29 pm: Laying around all over the play round here. Most end up on the bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night.
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: frustratedfarmer on March 30, 2011, 05:24:39 pm: I bet you are miles away from me Ambriel ;D

I'm in East Lothian- have tried scrap yards, Ebay you name it ::)
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Post by: Skirza on April 01, 2011, 01:52:18 pm: They have them near us sitting idle outside the electrical supply place on our industrial estate...it's a good place to start.
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Post by: robert waddell on April 01, 2011, 03:40:16 pm: they are supposed to be returned they get charged if they do not return them 8)
depends what you want them for full of skelfs for children :wave:
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Beewyched on April 01, 2011, 04:56:33 pm: Just the same as with pallets - there's thousands of them laying around rotting, until you ask somebody if you could have one or two for your pigs - then it's £10 each, plus £20 delivery plus VAT :o
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Post by: ambriel on April 01, 2011, 06:22:37 pm: Dozens of pallets here, too. Likewise they end up in the same place come November.
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Brucklay on April 02, 2011, 09:18:49 pm: OH is a joiner so came home from a job with it - I've been coveting one I can see from the road as we approach New Deer but not found a way to get to it yet - I would like a couple more and will try a local sparky and try - pallets we can get from Ellon but I'm alway a wee bit worried about wee legs getting trapped/stuck in them and the kids dash about a 20 mph
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Riggy on April 02, 2011, 09:45:06 pm: I burn them they're a pain (I'm an Electrician).

They all have "returnable refundable" printed on them, but nobody pays a deposit on them. Generally the bigger, solid wood, ones are returned to the cable suppliers. The smaller (plywood) ones are reused by electrical wholesalers, if they are clean.

Find your local electrical wholesaler (City Electrical Factors, Senate, Newey & Eyre, Edmundson Electrical, Denmans) and go and have a chat - avoid the busy time of first thing in the morning - they'll probably give you them for free (they have to pay to dispose of the dirty ones)
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Post by: Brucklay on April 02, 2011, 09:52:39 pm: Thank you Riggy - bit of luck you'll make lots of goats happy
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Post by: brooksjo on April 23, 2012, 04:41:16 pm: I am in Dorset and have as many old clean cable drums as anyone wants to collect. Let me know! Jon
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Simon O on April 24, 2012, 07:57:33 am: They are great, found a big one beside road and rolled it home, it makes a good potting table in the garden! Wish I could find more
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Post by: lindandamy on August 10, 2013, 10:08:21 pm: Where can I get some of these preferably free in Derbyshire/Sheffield?
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Post by: gailbroadbent on February 13, 2014, 02:00:50 pm: I have a number of medium sized ply wood cable reels, free to a good home if anyone is interested. Bury Manchester.
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Post by: fifixx on February 15, 2014, 07:31:29 pm: Hi brooksjo - sent a pm, where re you in Dorset?
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 19, 2014, 11:10:24 pm: Just been to my daughter's for a few days. My SIL found a cable reel at the side of the road and took it home. He rubbed it down, stained and varnished it and they now have a rather unusual coffee table.
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: maiziedoats on June 16, 2014, 11:52:51 pm: Quote from: brooksjo on April 23, 2012, 04:41:16 pm
I am in Dorset and have as many old clean cable drums as anyone wants to collect. Let me know! Jon

Hi, do you have any wooden cable drums now please ?
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Post by: CCA.Rescue on September 27, 2014, 09:57:38 pm: Where do people get these wooden cable drums from please? Looking at sites online but no luck either and have asked some people but where not very helpful to say the least. We would like to obtain the real wooden cable drums to help us make furniture for both humans, animals and for storage to raise funds for the homeless/abused animals and likewise with people too. If we are lucky enough to get the cables and sell the furniture made from them, all the money will go to the animal welfare etc.

Please please can someone help us. We are in the North East of UK.
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Dogwalker on September 28, 2014, 04:43:12 pm: I got one from the local co-op when it was being refitted.

Perhaps try electrical wholesalers, builder's suppliers and the like.
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Allanb on February 07, 2019, 09:40:27 am: Hi all readers

I work for an electrical company in the Nottingham area and we have around 14 cable drums of various sides that are free for collection

Let me know if anyone is interested
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Post by: senteacher19 on April 05, 2019, 10:25:50 pm: [member=193855]Allanb[/member], do you still have the cable reels at work? I will be in Nottingham the end of next week, it would be great to pick up a few for use at school, at if you still have them? Let me know where I might find them please.

Thank you
Title: Re: Used wooden cable reels/drums
Post by: Allanb on April 06, 2019, 03:16:58 pm: Sorry they have already been collected