Plastic Expedition Barrels?

[Colin]

Are any of you familiar with the round, plastic, typically blue barrels that are used by expeditions all over the Himalaya? The European expeditions often bring them there. They are very durable, water-tight, and close with a metal ring around the black, plastic lid.

 

Does anyone know where you can get them in the US? Anyplace in or around Seattle? Thanks.

[robpatterson5]

MEC in Canada carries them as part of their summer stock, 60L=$60 - they are great, with a harness I love them for whitewater boating. Totally waterproof and seem 80-90% rodent proof

[wayne]

I have one for sale 25$

Freight companies sell them.

[Jake_Gano]

They're called 'poly drums'. Online tool stores like Granger have them, but if you start asking around local hardware stores it shouldn't be hard to turn up some.

[Hugh Conway]

Talk to chemist/bio friends. they are a common shipping container for various liquid chemicals (poly drum packed with vermiculite, glass container of chemical inside).

[AlpineK]

I have one for sale 25$

Freight companies sell them.

 

I've got one I could sell you too.

[lazzara]

About a month ago there was whole pick-up truck full of those barrels for sale on the way to Ashford. Somewhere on Hwy 161 between South Hill and Eatonville.

 

Lots of blue barrels but no more details than that.

[denalidave]

They're called 'poly drums'. Online tool stores like Granger have them, but if you start asking around local hardware stores it shouldn't be hard to drum up some.

Could not resist fixing it fer ya...

[ryanb]

Raft guides buy olive barrels surplus from places that buy olives in bulk (grocery stores etc) ... loads of places in seattle drill a couple of holes in them, stick a faucet in and sell them as rain barrels in the spring but you ought to be able to find some with out the holes... they do smell like whatever they had in them originally though which could be an issue for bears.

[klenke]

Colin, if you're talking about the blue rain barrel-sized plastic drums (equivalent to the size of a standard oil drum), I've got two. I'll undercut Wayne and Kurt and offer mine for free. Nah, wait, I'll do even better. You come take them away and I'll give you $1 for each one.

 

These barrels held water at the house (previous owners) so I don't think they're too dirty inside. But I can't verify that. It depends on what you might need one of these for.

[AlpineK]

Mine are worth the $. They've already been to Asia and back so they're expedition tested.

[froodish]

Like this?

 

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/for/1941437471.html

[Colin]

Thanks for all the helpful info, everyone.

 

Yeah, Froodish, those are basically what I'm looking for, although the shape of those ones is not ideal (by making them stackable, the volume of the barrel goes down). Thanks for the link.

 

Kurt, you've got one, or two? I guess they are pretty similar to the ones in Froodish's link? Nice and big?

[AlpineK]

The ones in Froodish's pictures are taller than the ones I have.

 

I've got 3 that are about 2' x 1'. One I want to keep, but the others 2? I do have one bigger one (2.5' x 1.5') available.