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Smallholding => Buildings & planning => Topic started by: sugartown farm on May 25, 2013, 09:11:38 pm

Title: uses for 40 gallon barrels
Post by: sugartown farm on May 25, 2013, 09:11:38 pm: Im making silage in barrels this yr. Knowing smallholders to be a resourceful and ingenious bunch I am looking for more ideas on barrel uses
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Post by: Plantoid on May 27, 2013, 12:16:57 am: Are the barrels plastic or steel ?
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Post by: Sbom on May 27, 2013, 11:12:57 am: We use them for catching rainwater, feed and water troughs and horse jumps :thumbsup:
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Post by: ZaktheLad on May 27, 2013, 11:36:37 am: Another horse jump vote from me- they make a great fence either on their own or as a filler to another fence :thumbsup:
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Post by: shropshire_blue on May 27, 2013, 07:27:18 pm: Raftbuilding for team building events
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Post by: Creagan on June 17, 2013, 10:52:49 pm: When I visited a large sheep station in NZ one of their buildings was clad entirely with flattened out oil drums.
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Post by: shygirl on June 17, 2013, 10:56:04 pm: Quote from: sugartown farm on May 25, 2013, 09:11:38 pm
Im making silage in barrels this yr. Knowing smallholders to be a resourceful and ingenious bunch I am looking for more ideas on barrel uses

how do you do this exactly? interesting idea. is it to be fed to cattle?
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Post by: sokel on June 18, 2013, 07:09:41 am: Quote from: shygirl on June 17, 2013, 10:56:04 pm
Quote from: sugartown farm on May 25, 2013, 09:11:38 pm
Im making silage in barrels this yr. Knowing smallholders to be a resourceful and ingenious bunch I am looking for more ideas on barrel uses

how do you do this exactly? interesting idea. is it to be fed to cattle?

This is a topic about it http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=29241.0 (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=29241.0)
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Post by: FarmerJase on July 12, 2013, 02:43:01 pm: I've seen them adapted for poultry housing on a small scale. easy to clean, you just tip them upside down!
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Post by: Bodger on July 16, 2013, 02:08:28 pm: I ferment my cider in 50 gallon blue plastic barrels and then once its finished, I move the cider on into oak barrels to mature.
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Post by: ellied on July 17, 2013, 09:51:13 am: I have blue plastic ex food barrels if that's what you mean? I use them for feed and other storage to keep rodent free, I soak sugar beet in one, have poultry feed in 2, horse feeds in 3, think there's elec fencing bits and bobs in one, old haynets (I never use them now I don't go showing) in another..

I have a larger one maybe 3x the size for rainwater collection but it was hard to reach into with the narrower top so I took it off until I could find and insert a tap near the base, but never did.. so it's now a garden ornament :-\
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Post by: oor wullie on July 17, 2013, 10:21:26 am: All those ideas sound great but where do you get the blue plastic drums from?

I have been looking for some for ages and can't find them anywhere.
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Post by: henchard on July 17, 2013, 12:34:43 pm: make a wormery

How to make a worm bin/ barrel / farm ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQMwAK_bgPQ#)

Make a strawberry barrel

How to make a strawberry barrel / bin! How to make a herb barrel or bin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M7HI-0bKKs#)

even get into aquaponics

Aquaponic System and Raised Bed Garden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dx5clecrQ8#)
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Post by: Sbom on July 17, 2013, 06:11:23 pm: Most dairy farms will have them, there used to store the various dairy chemicals in. That's where ours come om anyway :thumbsup: