I've been looking all over for something like this for years and nothing is ever a good deal, and if it is, it is a crazy amount of money for a trashcan. I just want something that sort of looks like a gasoline or oil company logo on the trashcan that looks like an oil barrel. How do you guys go about finding these? ?
Without knowing where exactly "Central Oregon" is... What about this: https://bend.craigslist.org/mat/d/four-steel-barrels/6262408203.html
My shop goes through the 33 gallon barrels on a regular basis from ATF and gear oil. I always have a couple in the garage for trash and recycling.
Years ago I was having a garage sale and EVERYBODY tried to buy them off me. Sold the the first couple for $5. Then $10. Eventually I was easily getting $20 for them.
We usually end up just throwing them away or leave them outside for somebody to grab.
If you're ever in Downtown/North Park area of San Diego I'd give you an orange TOTAL barrel.
Oh, and the good craigslist search terms are the following: "Barrel", "55 gallon", "Burn Barrel"
Around here, an actual used oil barrel converted into a trash can is what we call "a normal trash can."
Usually the paint is rusted off (or more recently, it's been given a nice paint job by a street artist), but the most common brand I see is Total these days.
We call'em drums (mostly 55 gallon) and they are the bane of my existence. When you are walking property for an environmental assessment and you come up on drums in the woods, the fun begins. Most of the oil drums I've seen don't have any cute logo on them, the are painted with specific bands of solid color, depending on brand. Often, just solid black. Somebody in my neighborhood once had several stainless drums sitting in his yard. You can also get polyethylene drums.
Good Craigslist find! That's near me. 20$ ain't bad. Those are huge though. I'm not sure how to describe the ones I'm looking for. It might be the 33 gallon ones. I see a lot of them are blue and have the VP sticker on them, it's like they contained race fuel at one time. A search of eBay reveals them going for about 150 bucks each
If you know somebody at an industrial plant you could probably get one for nothing. Some they return but they scrap 'em too. I picked up a 30 gal for a parts washer at the scrap yard for $5.
hell, paint it your favorite livery and add stickers
Trackmouse wrote: Like this
Based on his description, this is about 19-20 gallons. FYI.
To far but we have a shop in aurora and we end up crushing them since we produce so many empties. They are 128pint kegs with no real graphics maybe a shell logo or sticker.
These are the ones we have laying around. They rust internally pretty quickly, so I rotate new ones in at my house yearly.
They are the beginnings or some great fender flares makings. Or if you cut slots into the sides, fire pit liners.
chandlerGTi wrote: To far but we have a shop in aurora and we end up crushing them since we produce so many empties. They are 128pint kegs with no real graphics maybe a shell logo or sticker.
We're getting all of our fluids in bulk now, with plastic 100ish gallon totes, because dealing with barrels is a pain in the butt. They charge a $25 core on the barrel, but want $30 to ship them back.
I have a few of the smaller ones with no logo i use for holding small scrap at home. Former gear oil containers from work. If my boss seen ebay she would be selling all the valvoline ones we use as trash cans here.
Knurled wrote:chandlerGTi wrote: To far but we have a shop in aurora and we end up crushing them since we produce so many empties. They are 128pint kegs with no real graphics maybe a shell logo or sticker.We're getting all of our fluids in bulk now, with plastic 100ish gallon totes, because dealing with barrels is a pain in the butt. They charge a $25 core on the barrel, but want $30 to ship them back.
i use barrels, having totes everywhere and lines long enough for all the bays is a pain. Barrels on carts can move to where they need to be easily. Shell and Mobil take them back for free, Chevron and Lucas don't. Once a month I put a free add on CL and people line up to get them.
Edit: those small kegs I throw in the filter crusher and crush them.
Be careful buying bulk drums.
My old company disposed of thousands a year, and they are an environmental disaster. There is always significant residue from whatever product was in them, and it is very often toxins. I wouldn't burn in one unless I absolutely knew the contents.
You are probably OK, if you are looking for petroleum product labels, but be careful.
I know the GRM crowd is much too smart and careful while doing this, but if you ever need to take a cutting torch or plasma cutter to a barrel, think about it. Don't be stupid.
In reply to ncjay:
Why? Haven't had a problem yet. Once you burn the oil out, it isn't going to burn twice...
It doesn't happen all that often, but every once in a while someone gets their hands on a barrel that used to contain something flammable, they get out the cutting torch, and bad things happen. Like I said, the GRM crowd is much too smart and careful to let this happen.
Burn barrels rust out so we switched to cinder block pits. 6 or 8 per layer, 5 layers tall. Bottom layer or two sideways for ventilation. Bonus, it gets full of ash and we tear it down and rebuild it every 2-3 years.
I have something similar to this in the garage just waiting to get the lid cut off and made into a trash can.
it is from when my wife roadraced 2-stroke motorcycles and needed to run 110 octane leaded fuel.
I didn't think it was worth anything after the gas was used up
In reply to Trackmouse:
You could kill two birds with one stone and buy a can of fuel direct from VP. Use the fuel and then you have a snazzy trashcan.
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