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[gfish]

Hrm. Finding cheap, water-tight, food-safe plastic barrels is harder than I would have thought.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I've had luck finding these under the 'rain barrel' category in hardware stores and the net. Usually that means 55 gallon size, but you can also get smaller rain barrels too.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I'm following up on right now. This is for dry storage on the canoe trip, so ideally I'd find some in the 15-20 gallon range, with handles.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

Standard rule: cheap, fast, good. You can have any 2. :)

[loree.livejournal.com]

Restaurant/foodservice supply might be useful here - once upon a time, my mother made a septic tank out of retired pvc apple juice barrels.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Would a regular 5-gallon drum do?

[loree.livejournal.com]

Only if it's food-safe plastic. A lot of 5-gallon buckets aren't, mostly because of the dyes used in manufacturing.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

Gatorade barrel? (If it keeps water *in*, it must be waterproof....)

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Talk to fast food joints about grabbing a couple of their pickle barrels before they're thrown out in the trash. Food safe and water tight because they are used to transport 5 gallons of pickles in brine.

[lunar--angel.livejournal.com]

In the same vein, food service mayonnaise buckets - usually 5 gallons, and they have lids and handles.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Pickle barrels were my thought, too. Pretty much any restaurant that serves lunch should have some.

[niac.livejournal.com]

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/variant.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=25&product%5Fid=292&variant%5Fid=75044

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

I assume 1 gallon (http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=42) is way too small to be useful, and you need a wide mouth so this (http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=998) isn't useful.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Hrm, that's not bad. If I can't find any recycled ones locally, I'll probably go with these.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

What we always used for multi-day white-water rafting was big tupperwares in a waterproof stuff-sack. Everything went in the stuff-sacks except the beer, coz they float.