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12/22/08, 07:51 PM
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I need a steel drum barrel.
Why is it when you don't need something they're everywhere? Free or real cheap. But when you finally decide you need one, you can't find one! 
I've got a great ideal on making a project with one. But I've been keeping my eyes peeled keeping a lookout for one for the past 1 or 1 1/2 months and can't come across anything but plastic barrels.
Just my luck! I guess I should have been bringing a few home if I need them or not. Just so I can have some around when I need them. I guess my wife could grip a little more.
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12/22/08, 09:45 PM
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Oh, so true!!!!
When my wife totalled our good car, we limped by for a few months on our old junker and back up car.
I searched and searched, and could not find a deal on a car to save my life. Now that we don't need a car, I see great deals one after the other.
Same goes for toy trains. I need some S-gauge track and an American Flyer transformer to test and run a set that was given to me. I have sold 10 or 12 AF transformers and a monster box of nice track in the past 2 years very cheaply. Now that I need that stuff, it is hard to find, and priced waaay more than I care to pay!!!!
My buddy wants to build a shed to use as a shop. I used to find free lumber like mad. Good stuff like 8' and 10' 2 x 4's, half sheets of OSB, etc. The minute he said to look for material, the best thing I've found is a 3' 2 x 2.
The teacher my DD has approached me about needing clipboards for the class. Just 1 month prior, I bought 80 clipboards at an auction for $1, and sold them for 45 cents each. I would have given her the boards. Can't find a deal on clipboards now that she has ask.
Gotta be a name for this....it is the story of my life!!!!
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12/23/08, 05:31 AM
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they aren't as easy to find as used to be
We use them to burn in and we really do have to look for them now. We usually end up getting them from the oil co that delivers our fuel/propane. They don't get as many as they used to so sometimes we are on a waiting list and they call us.
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12/23/08, 06:46 AM
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Our local feed store MFA sells metal burn barrels...in a couple of different grades last time I looked....one pretty much pristine and the other maybe a little rusty or dinged. Either one is less than $20...more likely less than $10 but I don't remember exactly.
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12/23/08, 07:01 AM
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no shortage of them here in texas. seems like all feed stores here have them.
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12/23/08, 01:18 PM
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At the rate the wind is blowing if it changes direction I can turn one loose here in Kansas and you should have it the next day.
I was told that a local fuel and oil distributor gave unusable drums away. When I asked I was told to help myself from a stack of them.
Another option since you are in Oklahoma is to find an oil field pumper as ask about old chemical drums of which many are not to be refilled. Depends upon your planned usage whether one dared to be used or not.
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12/23/08, 03:08 PM
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Not sure where your at in OK. but there's a surplus store in Adair that used to have a lot of them.
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12/23/08, 05:48 PM
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I got a dozen from a roofing company for $5 each. They were open at one end with no lid or clamp, but useful anyway. Now I need to go to a salvage yard to buy a couple that can contain kerosene or be used for a barrel stove.
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12/23/08, 11:13 PM
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If you get really hard up you can buy brand new ones for about 100 bucks a pop.
If I remember right, brand new, black, 50 gallon open top, resealable barrels with epoxy phenolic lining went for about 80-100 bucks if you were buying in onesies or twosies.
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12/23/08, 11:18 PM
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Your fuel distributor will have them.
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12/23/08, 11:31 PM
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OLD CB I got some. Want one? PM Me. It will cost ya a cup of coffee
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12/23/08, 11:38 PM
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12/24/08, 06:50 AM
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Thanks a lot people! I'm sure if I just be a little more patient one will show up. Probably looking too hard now that I have a project planned for one. That's the way it goes! I'll find one close by somewhere, just have to be patient.
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12/24/08, 09:48 PM
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Is the cup of coffee too much? 
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12/25/08, 03:08 AM
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Do you know any painters? I do drywall and can get clean barrels for free from our local paint distributer.
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12/25/08, 08:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Dave
Is the cup of coffee too much? |
Oh no not at all. In fact I've been needing to get in with you and have you help me out with that new job you got me into. I got accredited a while back but haven't had the time to do anything with it. Really need to call you sometime this next week once the Christmas spirit calms down.
Now as for the barrels. I was blessed with a couple of barrels way back in the spring/summer and didn't even know it. Back last spring/ early summer, we got some major floods down on the creek that runs behind my house. Well with all the downed trees from the icestorm and growed up wooly brush everywhere, I hadn't yet ventured all the way down the creek to the back of the place since the floods. But this morning I did. Didn't want to do too much around here since I would be leaving to go have Christmas dinner in the early afternoon, so I decided to take a walk down the creek and see what's going on. Got way back toward the end of the property and there laid a couple of barrels lodged between some trees and a drift wood pile. Also a couple of plastic barrels that had the ends cut out and joined together to make one long barrel. Not sure what someone was doing with that setup. Also lots and lots of used tires laying everywhere up and down the creek. Someone's used tire shop must have got washed away.
So anyway, now I just need to get them hauled home somehow and I will be able to start my project and be a happy camper! 
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12/26/08, 09:23 AM
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Depending on your application and metalworking capability you might consider using an old electric water heater.
As the scrap metal market has collapsed, they should become more available.
A good source of sheet metal and fiberglass insulation in the older ones, too.
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12/26/08, 09:28 AM
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Ain't the LORD great. here you wanted something and there it was you just didn't know where to look.Call we can still have the coffee.
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12/26/08, 09:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Dave
Ain't the LORD great. here you wanted something and there it was you just didn't know where to look.Call we can still have the coffee.
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You betcha! 
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