IBC Totes

[deezler]

20 each is a good deal, if clean.

you have to cut a full window out of the front so that you can easily bend down and reach the bottom. The cage will still be rigid enough. Easy job.

I got 8 today for free, but… they are kind of a biohazard. Pungent aroma upon arrival; “yeah, they had manure in them”. Had to leave two behind because they still had a hundred gallons of brown sludge in them lol.

 

[AchingBack]

20 each is a good deal, if clean.

you have to cut a full window out of the front so that you can easily bend down and reach the bottom. The cage will still be rigid enough. Easy job.

I got 8 today for free, but… they are kind of a biohazard. Pungent aroma upon arrival; “yeah, they had manure in them”. Had to leave two behind because they still had a hundred gallons of brown sludge in them lol.

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Thank you for replying. The ones I got were filled with water based glue.

 

[deezler]

… filled? As in still full? What did you do with 200+ gallons of glue?

 

[AchingBack]

… filled? As in still full? What did you do with 200+ gallons of glue?

They are empty.

 

[dstig1]

I just reach through the openings in the side to pull firewood when it gets too low to reach over the side. I use a broom hanlde with a hook on it (busted rake, basically) to pull splits towards where I can reach them. For how much wood we use, it works fine. I'll typically fill up 2-3 5 gal buckets to haul up to the fireplace at a time.

 

[shooterdon]

I just picked up a couple for $20.00 each. Now I'm wondering, once I fill them with wood it looks like it is going to be quite difficult to take it out without standing on my head.

Here you go. increases capacity, provides cover from rain and snow, not to hard to fill or empty and no plastic "box" to dispose of...just the base and side "door".

 

[deezler]

I think I will do that style with some of my new ones, Don. The plastic is pretty ugly but I'll stash them in the woods anyway.

 

[BoylermanCT]

I’ve been stacking firewood in IBC totes for several years. I store them under a lean to off my detached garage about 100 ft from the house. Every day I go out and fill 3 Rubbermaid bins and bring some firewood into the house. Yesterday a light bulb went off and here is the result. No more daily trips out to the garage! Didn’t think the sliding glass door on the front porch was big enough, but the IBC tote cleared with an inch on either side. Porch floor is a 12” concrete slab so no worry about weight either. I just have to take my time putting it in as the sliding glass door will probably break pretty easy if I bump it.

 

[deezler]

Oh man, risky biz, boylerman. I have honestly thought about re-constructing my outer screen porch wall into a disguised, giant double barn door, so that I could do the same thing. Right now I bring my totes up next to my screen porch door, but then have to manually unload into the firewood rack inside the porch. Bonus idea: make a low-profile pallet on rolling caster wheels to set the tote down onto, so you can shift it around if needed.

 

[ericm979]

I park a tote behind the garage and fill plastic bins from it to bring inside. When I'm filling the bins I knock the dirt, loose bark and bugs off the splits. There's been a lot of bugs lately as we have a lot of box elder bugs this year and they like the covered tote.

 

[Diggin It]

Bugs need to stay outside, in the cold, where they don't do stuff. I was keeping wood in the garage ... dry, but cold. Stuff that came in went into the stove so the bugs got cooked before they woke up.

 

[shooterdon]

I’ve been stacking firewood in IBC totes for several years. I store them under a lean to off my detached garage about 100 ft from the house. Every day I go out and fill 3 Rubbermaid bins and bring some firewood into the house. Yesterday a light bulb went off and here is the result. No more daily trips out to the garage! Didn’t think the sliding glass door on the front porch was big enough, but the IBC tote cleared with an inch on either side. Porch floor is a 12” concrete slab so no worry about weight either. I just have to take my time putting it in as the sliding glass door will probably break pretty easy if I bump it.

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Not unless you have a cat. There are mice in some of my wood totes.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Good thing I have two cats Salt and Pearl that live in the front porch! Excellent mousers!

 

[Loaderman22]

I also cut my totes like this, I had hoped this year to make a flip up door to keep the exposed ends dry, but it didn't happen. This also lets me get a couple more layers up under the lid. My loader feels quite squirrelly when I'm picking these up when full & green, so I keep them just a few inches above the ground.

 

[Fxfymn413]

I finally bit the bullet and bought 30 IBC's from a mulch dealer for $25.00 each. They had been drilled to get all of the dye out so I cut them up with a battery powered circular saw to make covers and the rest went to the landfill.

I did lay out a full cord to see how much each 275 rack would hold and it is 1/3 of a cord if stacked neatly to the top of the basket.

 

[shooterdon]

I think I will do that style with some of my new ones, Don. The plastic is pretty ugly but I'll stash them in the woods anyway.

Not too ugly:

 

[dodge man]

$25 each is a good price.

 

[California]

Another application for the IBC Tote: A watering trailer. It's a perfect fit on HF's 40x48 inch trailer.

Here's the post with that photo in the HF thread, and some comments for anyone considering building one. Since the photo (2012) I've installed 12" automotive tires for better flotation over rough ground. The trailer is holding up to this abuse (2600 lbs. loaded), to my surprise.

Added: photo with 12 inch tires, and the soft, sloping ground where larger tires work better.

 

[Fxfymn413]

I looked at CL and it appears that the prices have risen quite a bit in the past year. I wonder if it has to do with the "supply chain" issues and a scarcity of product that comes in the totes. Neither of the wood mulch places in my area that were selling them last year are advertising at all now. Are the manufacturers demanding the return if the totes because they cannot purchase new ones?

 

[California]

I was given the tote in those watering photos. It had initially arrived containing fertilizer but wasn't returnable. But it had sat out in the sun for a few years and my elbow went through the top the second year I had it.

I got a fresh liner from a nearby brewery. The brewery received wet mash in them but their supplier only wanted the structure returned, not the liner. They offered their liners on CL for $25.