More Barrels

Following on from our 'watertanks' that we did using olive barrels, giving us just under 1000l capacity (950l for $154.71), we have another half dozen or so barrels and I'm trying to figure out where to put them and how.  Do I put them all in one place as a big array, or spread them out a little bit?

barrel array done Sept 2011.

 So today, because I am trying to do more rather thank think about doing more, I have put the new barrels

950L water 'tank' for $50+ fittings (updated with full costing)

Here's our 'water tanks'. The olive barrels were sourced through J (*thankyou J for organising the barrel co-op!*). They're food grade, come with great seals and lids. They're 190 litres each and being stacked down the side of an otherwise fairly unused area of the house, they won't get a lot of traffic (except when the mandarine trees fruit!). The shade cloth you can see is to keep the summer sun out of the windows but when the mandarines are taller they will take care of that too. Anyway, to the barrels...

In progress... almost done... Just under 1000 litres capacity. Just need to tidy up around them now!

Now completely DONE (see next pic)
with taps on the ends and lids on the barrels. Debate is on whether to put a breather hole in the top of the lids but I think if they're not screwed on super tight, should be ok.



My thoughts initially were to use one barrel for SR flour, one for plain etc but I've decded to go with using them as rainwater tanks and find an option that's a little more 'easy access' for the bulk foodstuffs. Here's the almost finished project. It has just the finishing bits to do but we're already catching what falls from the sky. yay!