[Bangbang]

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)

[scotelf]

Horse feed bins 

[robert waddell]

rat proof pig feed bins

[doganjo]

Not convinced about that Robert - they chewed a hole in the lid of mine - either them or mice.

[Plantoid]

Hiding places from police helicopters using infra red night detection devices

[Bangbang]

Sorry Brucklay, I didn't mean to take anything away from - or make light of your post. 

[robert waddell]

Annie squirrels will chew the lids  rats can climb but not up a dust bin like the ones that are used now

[Dizzycow]

Hiding places from police helicopters using infra red night detection devices

  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.

[Dizzycow]

I don't know the logistics, but my cousin uses hers to take water to her horses in a paddock.

[robert waddell]

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     jobs a good un

[Sandy]

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!!

[Small Farmer]

Hay soaker.  We put a water tap at the bottom for emptying - actually a honey tap.

[Dougal]

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!

[Dizzycow]

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.

[deepinthewoods]

ride em like a go cart down a steep hill! halfcut of course