IBC Totes

[ericm979]

At $30 ea I'd buy a lot. The best price I've found locally is $60. I've for 8 set up for firewood and another as a man cage. I could use another 6-8 for firewood. Last winter I burned about 3 cords.

I cut the bladders up and heat form them to make rain covers. My covers are larger than most people's (I remove only one of the six sides) but they have enough air flow to evaporate any condensation and allow the wood to continue drying when conditions are right. Here we have a 6 month rainy season and a 6 month dry season. I take the covers off for the dry season. My firewood ends up nicely dry after a summer and stays dry in the winter with the rain covers. The cages get a door cut in them for easy stacking and removal of splits.

 

[caver]

I think I paid $10 for the one I bought and it was maybe 3 miles away at a place that wheels and deals with totes and 55 gallon drums.

 

[lilranch2001]

I got mine free, and could have gotten as many as I wanted, we would send them back ( for free) to be recycled when the next order arrived on the return truck.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Heck, $10 or "free" and I'd probably take a couple dozen.

Around here they start at $50 and are either 2 hrs or farther away, or full of waste oil, or beaten up frames.

The ones nearby are $60-$80. Not really interested at that price.

 

[PEJ5]

I cut them in half, screw them to a pallet and then fill them with chips from the chipper. I chip where the branches are and then move the chips to where I need them.

 

[dstig1]

I sold mine on CL. One couple bought 2 or 3 to cut up into some sort of garden beds, and the rest of the original 16 went to a guy who bought them to put into the empty cages that he had and then sold them as complete units. Now if I could have found that guy first, I could have just bought the cages alone... Talk about irony. I got $10-20 ea, IIRC and think I paid $60-80 ea complete.

 

[mikester]

Around here companies have to pay $60/ea tote for environmental disposal fees. Be very wary of what the totes contained prior to buying them. Some ignorant/untrustworthy individuals will sell you totes containing hazardous materials. I went to one sellers place of business who had hundreds of totes stacked out in his barn yard for sale. Walked down to where they were stored slipping and sliding on the goop that was leaking out of many of the totes with valves left partially open. The tanks all had MSDS labels with hazardous and carcinogenic warning labels. Seller told me he got the tanks from a company that used the stuff for cleaning printing presses. He claimed he didn't know what carcinogenic meant. Dumb bugger lived on the farm and drank his well water. He didn't want to believe me that he was contaminating not only his well but all his neighbour's wells too. Anything for a buck.

 

[dodge man]

The ones I bought had soybean and “other essential oils” in it. Kind of a pain to clean them out.

 

[Diggin It]

I still have the labels that came with mine. Some kind of soap/surfactant used to settle dust in mines.

 

[bunyip]

There was a case recently where someone lost quite a few cattle after filling up troughs with water from an IBC, can't remember what the chemical residue was but obviously nasty, prices vary from a reasonable AU$50 in very good condition to $200 for optomistic sellers.