Kyle_in_Tex
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You can put them on top of disc or other implements that need weight. Up to 440 lbs filled with water. Adjust as needed by amount of water you put in.
What to do with 55 gallon barrels
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zbeckerd
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They make great camping stoves. It is pretty easy to take a third of a barrel and square it. I used a piece of leaf spring and filed a quarter
inch cutter. Anyway one barrel makes a great little stove with oven. Barrels weld together pretty well without rod.
Another thought would be a compost tumbler. Metal barrels are getting harder to find these days.
inch cutter. Anyway one barrel makes a great little stove with oven. Barrels weld together pretty well without rod.
Another thought would be a compost tumbler. Metal barrels are getting harder to find these days.
slydog
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I like the compost tumbler idea. I just made a tumbler out of a single barrel. I got a couple of 3/4 inch iron pipe threaded collars and welded on each end. Screwed in a a 12" nipple on each end with a cap. Put these through a 2x8 with holes that I had mounted between posts, cut a door and welded on hinges and clasps. It works great.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( They make great camping stoves. It is pretty easy to take a third of a barrel and square it. I used a piece of leaf spring and filed a quarter
inch cutter. Anyway one barrel makes a great little stove with oven. Barrels weld together pretty well without rod.
Another thought would be a compost tumbler.
1*Metal barrels are getting harder to find these days. )</font>
1*I just picked up 5 free ones the other day from a place that was giving them away.
I now have 11 steel drums stored in my pole building
All of them have been free.
inch cutter. Anyway one barrel makes a great little stove with oven. Barrels weld together pretty well without rod.
Another thought would be a compost tumbler.
1*Metal barrels are getting harder to find these days. )</font>
1*I just picked up 5 free ones the other day from a place that was giving them away.
I now have 11 steel drums stored in my pole building
All of them have been free.
LBrown59
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Actually - they'd last longer than the ones being used as a burn barrel - the heated ones will rust much faster. )</font>
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I get 2 or 3 years out of a burning barrel.
Just stored outside they will last 2 or 3 times longer.
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I get 2 or 3 years out of a burning barrel.
Just stored outside they will last 2 or 3 times longer.
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Did you ever get the land issue resolved with your AR property?
slydog
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Hey LB,
Nope...I am still working on it. I've actually been waiting for the last three days for the health department engineer to get out of a class so I can get some answers to some questions regarding setbacks, etc, that I may be buying into if I give my neighbors an easement for the lagoon levy portion.
I have corresponded via email with the woman who sold both of us the property, and of course she is totally denying now any previous knowledge of it, and is saying that there is nothing she can do about it, and says she is not responsible.
She is blaming it on the surveyor who did the first survey (who by the way is the same one I used for this last survey.) Of course I have a different opinion, and told her that would be a matter between her and the surveyor, not us and the surveyor. I even offered her a comprosise saying that if she would be agreeable to changing some of the other easements we have with her regarding some road accesses, that we would have no problem offering the new owners an easement for the line encroachments, but she was totally adament and refused any such compromises.
After I talk to this man tomorrow, I am going to contact my attorney again about finding a resolution to all of it. My thoughts right now are to grant our neighbors a temporary easement on the sewer line (untill they or us want to improve the property, then it will be moved onto theirs). But I am thinking on the lagoon levy encroachment, I am pretty much stuck with either granting them a permanent easement, or selling/leasing them that little encroachment area. Do you think we could get estimates for moving the lagoon and line, and sue the woman who sold it to us for the cost of moving it?? I don't really want to stick the new neighbors with the cost of it. I'm really perplexed as to what the **** to do at all right now. Do you think the woman who sold it all to us is liable for anything??? What would you suggest.
Nope...I am still working on it. I've actually been waiting for the last three days for the health department engineer to get out of a class so I can get some answers to some questions regarding setbacks, etc, that I may be buying into if I give my neighbors an easement for the lagoon levy portion.
I have corresponded via email with the woman who sold both of us the property, and of course she is totally denying now any previous knowledge of it, and is saying that there is nothing she can do about it, and says she is not responsible.
She is blaming it on the surveyor who did the first survey (who by the way is the same one I used for this last survey.) Of course I have a different opinion, and told her that would be a matter between her and the surveyor, not us and the surveyor. I even offered her a comprosise saying that if she would be agreeable to changing some of the other easements we have with her regarding some road accesses, that we would have no problem offering the new owners an easement for the line encroachments, but she was totally adament and refused any such compromises.
After I talk to this man tomorrow, I am going to contact my attorney again about finding a resolution to all of it. My thoughts right now are to grant our neighbors a temporary easement on the sewer line (untill they or us want to improve the property, then it will be moved onto theirs). But I am thinking on the lagoon levy encroachment, I am pretty much stuck with either granting them a permanent easement, or selling/leasing them that little encroachment area. Do you think we could get estimates for moving the lagoon and line, and sue the woman who sold it to us for the cost of moving it?? I don't really want to stick the new neighbors with the cost of it. I'm really perplexed as to what the **** to do at all right now. Do you think the woman who sold it all to us is liable for anything??? What would you suggest.
frederic
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Patch the holes with thin steel, then drill a 1" hole on the bottom dead center.
Push a 1" steel rod through the bottom, so that you have 4 inches or so sticking into the ground, through the bottom of the barrel, and 4" sticking up above the top.
Fill with concrete.
Turn sideways, add bushings, and make yourself a tow-behind roller for compacting soil.
I just made a very small version of this for my yard... very useful for squshing down gravel, then sand, for building patios. Though mine's small enough that I just made a handle for it for "manual" use.
Push a 1" steel rod through the bottom, so that you have 4 inches or so sticking into the ground, through the bottom of the barrel, and 4" sticking up above the top.
Fill with concrete.
Turn sideways, add bushings, and make yourself a tow-behind roller for compacting soil.
I just made a very small version of this for my yard... very useful for squshing down gravel, then sand, for building patios. Though mine's small enough that I just made a handle for it for "manual" use.
pat32rf
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Set one on its end and run a 3/4" steel bar thru it about 10" above the ground, having drilled 3/8" holes in each end of the bar first. Leave about 3" of bar sticking out each side of the barrel. Add about 14" of concrete to the barrel and cut it off about 24" high, leaving a space to carry chain, tools etc on top of the cement. You can lower it to the ground to disconnect the draft bars of the 3pth and probably won't need the top bar as most of the weight is below the hinge point so it might swing but won't tip. Cheap, and nasty.......as they say
Junkman
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( After I talk to this man tomorrow, I am going to contact my attorney again about finding a resolution to all of it. My thoughts right now are to grant our neighbors a temporary easement on the sewer line (untill they or us want to improve the property, then it will be moved onto theirs). But I am thinking on the lagoon levy encroachment, I am pretty much stuck with either granting them a permanent easement, or selling/leasing them that little encroachment area. Do you think we could get estimates for moving the lagoon and line, and sue the woman who sold it to us for the cost of moving it?? I don't really want to stick the new neighbors with the cost of it. I'm really perplexed as to what the **** to do at all right now. Do you think the woman who sold it all to us is liable for anything??? What would you suggest.
Ken )</font>
Under no circumstances would I grant any easement to the neighbor. It is nice that you don't want to put the screws to him, but this isn't your doing, nor is it his. If he has to resolve the problem on his own property, then he will be the one that will be putting the screws to the seller to resolve the problem. In the end, I can see where both you and he will wind up either filing jointly against the seller, or you and he will no longer be talking. Personally, if you don't give in, then the seller will have to resolve the problem with the two of you. I wouldn't be wasting time, but would be contacting attorneys to see what their views of this are. The longer you wait, the more valuable time you loose. If the seller were to drop dead tomorrow, you would then be dealing with her estate. The one thing that I have learned in land dispute problems is that being nice gets you nowhere, and time spent procrastinating is wasted time. If you were to file tomorrow, it would still be 3 - 5 years before you would even see a judge. In that time, the next door neighbor might decide to sell the property and then you have another person to deal with. Have the surveyor prepare a map for filing and show the illegal encroachment on that map. Then file that map with the county so all future purchasers of the neighbors land will be put on notice when the title search is done. There is no such thing as a temporary easement....... You could give them a license, but that has its problems. You need to get moving on getting them to put the system on their property or coming to financial terms with you. Most likely, they are in favor of keeping the situation in limbo... It doesn't cost them and they have everything to gain. The way it stands now, they are getting closer every day to a adverse possession claim on your property. In fact, I would look into filing papers immediately that would stop the clock on adverse possession. I have to do the same thing with a problematic neighbor even though I won the case 17 years ago. They agreed not to trespass in the settlement, but continued the day after the papers were signed. The attorney said that I would have to start over at peg one to get before a judge again. Never believe that it is over, because people just disregard the judges decision on civil matters and it is hard to get them moved to a criminal situation. I know because I have been dealing with it for 23 years!!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Ken )</font>
Under no circumstances would I grant any easement to the neighbor. It is nice that you don't want to put the screws to him, but this isn't your doing, nor is it his. If he has to resolve the problem on his own property, then he will be the one that will be putting the screws to the seller to resolve the problem. In the end, I can see where both you and he will wind up either filing jointly against the seller, or you and he will no longer be talking. Personally, if you don't give in, then the seller will have to resolve the problem with the two of you. I wouldn't be wasting time, but would be contacting attorneys to see what their views of this are. The longer you wait, the more valuable time you loose. If the seller were to drop dead tomorrow, you would then be dealing with her estate. The one thing that I have learned in land dispute problems is that being nice gets you nowhere, and time spent procrastinating is wasted time. If you were to file tomorrow, it would still be 3 - 5 years before you would even see a judge. In that time, the next door neighbor might decide to sell the property and then you have another person to deal with. Have the surveyor prepare a map for filing and show the illegal encroachment on that map. Then file that map with the county so all future purchasers of the neighbors land will be put on notice when the title search is done. There is no such thing as a temporary easement....... You could give them a license, but that has its problems. You need to get moving on getting them to put the system on their property or coming to financial terms with you. Most likely, they are in favor of keeping the situation in limbo... It doesn't cost them and they have everything to gain. The way it stands now, they are getting closer every day to a adverse possession claim on your property. In fact, I would look into filing papers immediately that would stop the clock on adverse possession. I have to do the same thing with a problematic neighbor even though I won the case 17 years ago. They agreed not to trespass in the settlement, but continued the day after the papers were signed. The attorney said that I would have to start over at peg one to get before a judge again. Never believe that it is over, because people just disregard the judges decision on civil matters and it is hard to get them moved to a criminal situation. I know because I have been dealing with it for 23 years!!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif