200L Blue Drums
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Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
I struggle for medical reasons with bending over to garden, so I have a line of half-height barrels as raised beds by the kitchen window for veggies. Hole drilled half way down for drainage and a top up of muck each winter.
Used one with a 'dog flap' cut out one end as a dog kennel once, blanket inside and nailed to a plank so it didn't keep rolling over.
Cut lengthways for feed troughs.
I give most of them away now, water butts or horse jumps seem to be the most popular, in return for a charity donation.
Used one with a 'dog flap' cut out one end as a dog kennel once, blanket inside and nailed to a plank so it didn't keep rolling over.
Cut lengthways for feed troughs.
I give most of them away now, water butts or horse jumps seem to be the most popular, in return for a charity donation.
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
I have used them for manholes in a hedge drain where pipes meet at an angle , but the smaller half size ones are best for that , a paving slab over the top and connectors made out of bale wrap cores ,which are nearly 4 inch also cut the flat part out (once unpeeled and used it as a skin over narrow doors in the milking parlour -dont need to paint it either 
I love recycling but my other half still shakes her head I think !!
I love recycling but my other half still shakes her head I think !!
- Location
- N.Lincs
Water troughs ....
Feed block holders (also double as seats for lambs to lounge about in)....
The 'lambing luge'....
The list is endless.
Feed block holders (also double as seats for lambs to lounge about in)....
The 'lambing luge'....
The list is endless.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
They’re very good for manhole risers, pour concrete around them, then just acts as a form.I have used them for manholes in a hedge drain where pipes meet at an angle , but the smaller half size ones are best for that , a paving slab over the top and connectors made out of bale wrap cores ,which are nearly 4 inch also cut the flat part out (once unpeeled and used it as a skin over narrow doors in the milking parlour -dont need to paint it either
I love recycling but my other half still shakes her head I think !!
Have seen a picture of a ring feeder that had been redone with the straight sections of drums.
Don't get any myself but have bought them for making cattle troughs, easier and better than tin IMO
Don't get any myself but have bought them for making cattle troughs, easier and better than tin IMO
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
Few years ago now! Paddle steamer.
Work a treat for manholes. Had one to do that took a fair bit of working out. Limited space, join three pipes & also cross another drain through the middle of it.
Best option was cut holes in a drum, shoved pipes in, surrounded it in concrete. Then for good measure we also used the same opening to join some ducts with the help of 900mm twinwall for a bit more room. Nearly a work of art
Just need to cut the ducts shorter & chuck on a 8” thick lid we cast out of reinforced concrete.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Summer is on its way, got to get them clean, or it taints the burgers 
Pooh_Bear
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- Location
- Shropshire
I feel ours are bit boring, we have several sliced either horizontally or vertically as water troughs for the horses and sheep.
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