I have three 55gal stainless drums and one 85gal stainless, all with removable lids, that I will soon have no use for. I installed weldless tri-clamp ports on the bottom. I was thinking making a three vessel 1BBL brew system would be cool, using the 85gal as a fermentor. But I have no need for that much booze. Or maybe an ugly drum smoker. Any ideas?
My neighbor wanted to use this to burn stuff and make fertilizer or something. I want to make a rain system but have just been wait too busy
Seems like a huge waste to use a stainless drum as a burn barrel. I can see the water thing being a good idea if you’re schizo about plastics, but I’m not really.
Oh I'm moronic yeah stainless don't listen to me. I have some plastic and he has an old steel one.
Yeah, the fact they’re stainless is what makes me want to find a good way to use them. It’s about $1.5k worth of drums, but because I modified them they’re likely useless unless I target a niche market like I described above. If I went that route, I’d probably lost them as ‘made to order’ or something with a ~2wk lead time. Mine weren’t that professionally done but I can add a neoprene blanket, PID and elements for the whole nine yards if someone is willing to put something down or is expressing serious interest… but that’d take some serious time.
So meanwhile, it’d be nice to find a non-desctructive use for them. I don’t like the ugly drum smoker idea because it’d modify them even more (destructive).
juice kefir
Store water on your shelter.
>stainless drum
those are expensive
I'd sell and pocket the cash
Yeah, but they have holes in them from my weldless tri-clamp ports, which diminishes resale value. I was using them as steam sterilizers for mushrooms, so was thinking to max resale potential I could make them into a bubba barrel steamer, like pic rel, but that’s super niche, but at least it’d mean I profited off them.. I don’t mind camping on them but hate seeing them unused.
Maybe make BBQ smokers out of them. That would be a lot easier to sell than some mycology humidor or whatever you're describing.
The problem with pocketing the cash is that then it’s in my pocket, and it will fly away. 4 55-85gal SS drums will not fly away.
Fill them with a quarter glass of acetone and wait five minutes then apptoach a lighter to an orifice. I'tll make them sterile for water storage.
Make picrel, charge $250K per passenger
>Manned torpedo suicide bombers
Is there really no practical idea for these things? My worst case scenario is using them as a flashy means of storing chicken feed. Not a goddamn subarmine. Wouldnt they make a better rocket anyway?
What if I just start a brewery
Leaning towards this so far, just doubling down on them.
Make a hot barrel composter. Insulate it and keep it up to temp. Keep the humidity high. Roll it every day. Stainless will ensure it doesn't rust out. There is plenty of stuff there to automate as well, if you are so inclined.
Doesn’t need to be stainless though. A compost bay works better too cuz worms can crawl in. Hot compost with frequent turning beats rolling. I steam off snow all winter with my compost pile. I’m working on a heat exchanger for an IBC tote composter though, to keep my chickens warm in winter.
What’s great about the heat exchanging thing too is you can avoid death of bacteria at higher temps which happens with higher nitrogen levels. Forget the name for this. But anyway so you could hypothetically ditch the C:N ratio stuff and overload the N, provided you can extract enough heat to keep it under 160F. It’s a totally bonkers exploit that I haven’t seen anyone else do yet. Could you keep chickens warm from their own high nitrogen poop if you can extract the heat fast enough? If yes, the advantage is warm chickens and insanely fast compost too.
Use for emergency gasoline storage in case of natural disaster. Or bury as prepper weapons/dildo vaults.
The fuel idea is not a joke. I keep a new takeoff aluminum 150 gallon big truck fuel tank plugged and ready for the next hurricane etc and have stainless valve and pipe fittings bagged and ready to install. Shit approaches, I fill at gas station then await events. If no disaster I just use it up by decanting into jerry cans thence to my other vehicles.
For disaster preparation, I keep a supply of food and water on hand, at least a months worth, and ultralight gear. In a real SHTF scenario, I can hopefully trade my seeds, chickens (I breed them for this purpose), beer or canning services/supplies for goods. That’s about as far as I’m willing to go personally.
I believe in an actual SHTF scenario, just beating out the bottom 50% nearly ensures your survival, and most people don’t keep more than a weeks worth of food, or own guns. So I’m fine with where my efforts put me personally, and I make some spare change on the chickens, save money on beer and canning, etc.
I too keep yardbird. The eggs are awesome thanks to free range.
I can’t free range mine anymore sadly, they started invading neighboring properties and pooping all over my deck. Was especially bad after a possum got in there (didn’t kill anything, just frightened them) and they refused to roost in their coop.
>I installed weldless tri-clamp ports on the bottom
Why? Sell them for that use.
I thought that would devalue them, since they’re more niche at that point? I’ve thought about listing as bubba barrel sterilizers (posted above) or brew vessels, but idk. Right now they’re just stainless drums with holes in them, which seems worse than drums without holes.
Barrel wood stove or id probably just store chicken feed in them.
I can store chicken feed in regular drums though is the thing. And ruining the shiny stainless with flame and soot seems wasteful. Maybe there’s not an obvious use for them though, else id see others doing it. Probably just end up selling or using for what’s been mentioned so far: brewing, distilling or flashy feed containers. Leaning toward setting them aside as large brewing/distilling vessels for big seasonal batches.
Water storage.
rodent proof rice storage, did you know india, who supplies 40% of the world's rice, just stopped almost all their rice exports?