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Simmo


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Looking for a barrel, diameter 60cm height 90cm, 55 Gallon capacity.  Colour unimportant but blue would be nice.

PM me if you have anything suitable, can collect. Ta.

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-- Edited by Simmo on Monday 17th of June 2013 03:26:21 PM



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Simmo Do you know anybody at Alcoa (howmet) sowton Exeter as they have loads of empty 1's and in blue, will try to speak to a friend to see if he can get 1 if you don't no anybody out there Mark

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Have tagged you in a a post on facebook ian

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if you cant get one elsewhere may be able to help with something simular

let me know

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delvey91 wrote:

Have tagged you in a a post on facebook ian

 Thanks for that, another member appears to have one for free....



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but the real question is:
What are you going to do with it?
Raft down the Otter?

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shack wrote:

but the real question is:
What are you going to do with it?
Raft down the Otter?

 Put a fourth water butt in a row.  The world is going to end and we'll need water. See pic.



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sparky wrote:

Simmo Do you know anybody at Alcoa (howmet) sowton Exeter as they have loads of empty 1's and in blue, will try to speak to a friend to see if he can get 1 if you don't no anybody out there Mark

 I used to but he kept getting made redundant. wink



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Thanks guys, all sorted!



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Thanks to Kerry for the freebie! Looks identical, brilliant. Now got enough barrels for a full blown crack factory. I mean water butt...

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Another job done......my Dad had connected three water butts together in series.  The joint in between 2 & 3 had been leaking due to subsidence of 3's base and the harsh winter of 2010/11 bursting the join. Using Plumbase push fit connectors (B&Q) I have replaced that join and added a fourth water butt to the collection.

I hadn't drained 1 & 2 which were both full after last night's rain so I put a tap connector in between 2 & 3 which meant I could connect 3 & then 4 without water flowing everywhere.

I had been stressing how I would get the backing nut into Kerry's Butt for the new tank connector but by a stroke of accidental genius I drilled a 3/4" hole and then enlarged it by running a spinning 10mm drill around the inside until it was big enough to screw the connector into the plastic of the barrel.  With some silicone sealant just to make sure.

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This used to be butt 3 but I replaced the old copper elbow with a pushfit.

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Good idea but turning the tap between 2 & 3 on proved a bit of a problem as I couldn't reach it from either side so I had to climb on top of 1, walk across 2, lower my self down in between 2 & 3, turn the tap on and then climb out backwards.  Thanks to Herbalife this wasn't a problem! wink

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While I had the silicone sealant out I sorted the garage guttering which has been leaking for years.

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So thanks to atmospheric pressure/Newton's third law of motion 2 full water butts this morning are now 4 half full water butts.  When it rains all 4 levels will remain equal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion

Clever stuff!  If anyone else needs their butt plumbing try redtube for instructional videos....biggrin



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Considering that we live where the water charges are the highest in the land it's surprising more people don't harvest rainwater - particularly as we presently have so much of it to harvest.

I myself have numerous water butts around the house but it's only on the allotment that I've been able to join some together. There, I have seven butts, three dotted around the plot and filled by hose from the four connected together and supplied from the shed roof.

Where I depart from your approach is that mine are connected at the top of each butt as I felt that should a tap or fitting fail then I would only lose the contents of that one butt. Connected at the bottom as yours are a fitting failure would see all four empty.

My four butts each have their own tap so I can either 'dip' a can into them or attach a hose. I do appreciate, however, that in your installation the bases of the butts are inaccessible so I would have run pipe work off each into a central area and installed four taps there.

Cheers,

John

 



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Following a fire next door to my mum's house this morning Kerry's butts have now ceased to be but they did help put the fire out.

Thanks to Roger for alerting me via facebook so I could coordinate relief efforts from NW Scotland.

Nobody has been harmed and all animals OK.

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Blimey that looked bad, good to hear everyone's ok

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http://www.devonlive.com/kittens-and-dog-rescued-from-east-devon-bungalow-fire-which-began-in-fridge/story-30460516-detail/story.html

 



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bloody ell and thats without any external cladding.
Glad to hear no peeps or critters were hurt.

Think fridge and toys will be needing separate accomodation .....

Perhaps a concrete bunker for the fridge (-:

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