Hard Times

What you do is up to you not me

I was just advising you of why it is not a good idea

Plastics are a by product of oil and petroleum
Cheap plastics leech out into whatever is in them, thus the reason home brewers pay £5 for food grade plastic bucket, rather than £1 bucket from poundland
Cheap polythene is even worse

I just wanted to draw your attention to it, but as you know this already and you have made your choice that is fine

Jack McH

 

Money saving tips - for small buckets get a Tesco Value bucket for 99p - They are food grade. If you want a 5 gall homebrew bucket with a lid buy a Chapel Wood one for storing bird food in - they are exactly the same as the ones sold for homebrew, only they have different livery, but cost about half the price.

 

I bought a 5 gallon beer brewing bucket with lid for making compost tea

I paid over £15 for that .... nothing fancy, but does have calibrations showing the amount of water, and is made from food grade plastic

I shopped around, and the normal 5 gallon buckets were over £7

 

25L Bucket with lid £4.99 incl P&P from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004478Q...de=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B004478Q0G or about £8 from Wilkos or £10/12 from a homebrew shop.

 

I bought the Young's fermentation bucket (25 litre)...
http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/conta...ermentation-vessel-full-colour-graduated.html

on the link, it costs £11.11 if you opt for the lid aswell .... I paid £15 with the lid from a store, but opted for a lid that was not drilled

add shipping costs, and it was cheaper to buy it in store

can say, that I compared several different buckets, and this one has the thickest sidewalls and bottom and is heavy

not that it will make any difference to what I need it for, and a cheap bucket would have done the job just as good

 

The one on Amazon is made by the same company that produces absolutely indentical buckets for Youngs. The only difference is one has "Fermentation" + graduations on it, and the other one has "Storage Container" printed on it. This moneysaving tip is all over the homebrew forums.

 

I made wine in a non food grade bucket once, never again. The plastic leached into the wine, it was terrible.

 

Wilko's home brew buckets are good value,I dont even use the tapped ones for my beer making,I buy the basic ( tub and lid) and 'jug' the beer into my bottles.I dont bother with siphons .Its easier to sterilise a small plastic jug. M. : )

 

Thought of another one which I discovered by accident when I ran out.

Use compost instead of cat litter. It's lighter, the cats prefer it (mine do in any case), it's easier for them to bury stuff and there's no need to use it sparingly so you can give them a nice deep layer, it absorbs smells, doesn't get 'claggy' like cat litter and is a fraction of the price of even the cheapo stuff - plus you'll never run out cos us gardeners always have a bag of compost on the go

You can also re-use it afterwards - just remove the poo and either dig the compost into your borders, chuck it in with the compost or mix it in with the remainder of the compost to be used on the garden

 

Just seen your signature poem Merle.

One of my favorites.

 

Like it Zig

Can't beat a good poem, especially when it's about nature.

 

I think its by Andrew Motion but I can't find a google reference for it.

 

BACK TO HARD TIMES. I have just finished a plastic container of "Vanish Stain remover Pre wash". I have it soaking in the washinh up water and will get all the old dregs of Vanish out ,then flush it out with water. Then, I will put liqiud measures on the outside in a magic Marker pen. Then, I can use it to spray things in the garden or mini greenhouse like unwanted greenflyetc.etc.

Jenny namaste

 

Does dilute Vanish make greenfly disappear?

And does anybody else sieve their ashes and keep chucking the lumps back on the fire? Mrs Scrungee tried picking out the pallet nails for me to straighten out and re-use, but there are limits - I suggested she saved them up and weighed them in for scrap. There must also be some use for the ash dust, but I've never found it suitable for laying slabs on, blinding hardcore before laying concrete perhaps.

 

Beat this one!

Save up all your empty baked bean, etc. cans until you have enough to completely the fill an MPV with all the rear seats taken out and take them to the local scrap yard where you can get £100/tonne for them:



Every little helps!