What do you guys do with the liners. The wife is tired of looking at them so I have to find something to do with them.
I set them by the road and people take them. My boys used a few as airsoft blinds. I would think the flat sides could be used a roofs or siding for hunting stands.
I use them for roofs, for every bladder you get 2 roofs. Once you cut them in half you can stack them tight and they don’t take up much room. What I don’t keep for roofs go to recycle.
You could make her a nice pair of homemade blinders! ...unless the liners are transparent then i cant help you Dave! Ms. buZZsaw tells me recently that she is tired of looking at my firewood so i replied "don't look at it then" was her response!
Sometimes i have good ideas...sometimes! Ive seen IBC totes from a distance but dont know how thick the plastic is. Id be concerned with sharp edges. Softened up with a torch maybe???
No grandkids yet. I don't think Mrs will let them stay that long. She wants them gone before her parents come to stay for a week next month. And of course I'll be gone for 3 weeks of that
I use one I cut into two halves for smalls out by splitter. Drain holes from bottom to let rain water out. One is dedicated to junk like bark peeling, twigs,etc. The other is for kindling size splits,chunks, and uglies that suck to stack but still decent wood. Tractor makes short work of moving them to dump the trash one in the woods and the other up to house to burn in fire pit or shop stove as needed or gets close to full. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I cut the top off to use as a lid, drill 1/2" holes on all sides including the bottom, and then store kindling in them. Those are hard to find. I wouldn't just chuck them. Works really well to keep the kindling dry yet still provides enough aeration. Holds about (6) of those 44 gallon totes worth of kindling. Easier to manage - i.e. I don't have to do anything - whereas with the cans I'd always forget to cover them and then it would get soaked and then I'd have to empty them, drain the water, fill them back up. PITA. I cut part of the cage as well as the tote to create a flap so that it's easier to get to the bottom once the top half gets used. Works really well for me. I have 5 of them, 3 of which are full. I used 2 last winter.
Here's a view, albeit not a great one, of the flap. Make 2 cuts for the sides and leave the bottom intact and it naturally acts as a hinge.
My point was not to take them out of the cage in the first place. Those totes are hard to get and they are worthless without the cage. If you try to fill them with water they will burst without the support of the cage. While I haven't experienced that myself, it makes sense as they are extremely wobbly without the cage (and I read it online so it must be true). Some people cut them diagonally into 1/2 and use them as caps for the cages that store wood. How many do you have to get rid of? Sometimes people can only find the cages and really want the totes. I know when I bought them that was my intention and had to settle for just cages on a few.....which ended up working out just fine but I'm sure there's people out there that want them.... like Nitrodave Post 'em up on FBMP for like $10 each (or better yet free if you are dying to get rid of them). I like having a lot of dry kindling on hand knowing that I can reach for another handful of it without blinking an eye and worrying if I'm going to run out. Plus it gives me something to do with shorties.
