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Originally Posted by TimJFowler
I am curious as to where you found the food grade barrels? I need to add rain barrel capacity and I'm always looking for more ideas.
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My brother works at a cookie factory, so these had molasses in them, some of them still had a few gallons of molasses, good for eating and good for the plants, the vanilla barrels that they sell were plastic and I didn't want plastic, they also sold the plastic ones for $10 each, compared to $2 each for the steel if I bought 50 of them, then sold the extras for $5 and I had enough calls for them in the first 12 hours that they were gone, paid for my barrels and gas to pick them up (2000 pounds of barrels in a single trip) so it's not a free project but the cost offset is there.
You might also check at feed mills as any supplements that they put in their feed are going to be food grade, check craigslist as well.