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Moving to North Virginia, US next April, and I plan to set up my system there. I need to find some good and cheap blue barrels. Does anyone out there know of a good souce or starting point? Please help, much thanks.

Craigslist can be an excellent start as I find the many uses usually lead to at least one person in each city trying to make buck from them.

HTH
Bobby
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Here's a site that may help! http://www.lexingtoncontainercompany.com/
IF you cannot get there ask for a place local to where you are moving to.

Their barrels are very clean - used once, cleaned and rinsed.

I live in IN and have a friend that lives near this place. I borrowed his trailer
and took it back later and the two trips still paid for themselves for what I wanted.

Also look at your local bottling company. They usually get their syrups in blue barrels. If you are lucky, they get them in IBCs.

Found mine on craigslist. Wide mouth black 65 gallon barrels that held olives for $14 per barrel.

You can grab some from car washes (55 and 33 gal). Wal mart bakery always has five gal buckets so do many chines food carryout.

Gotta agree with Ronmaggi - I got all of mine (and that's a great many of them) for free from both Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper bottling plants. I imagine the same would hold true for most other bottling plants except for Pepsi (whom I've repeatedly heard has ceased letting barrels go - but that could change at any time so you'd to well to check regardless, that is of course if they have a plant near you), and for Miller Beer, who does not give away (or sell) either barrels or totes (as of when I talked to them in December of last year).

Here's a quick Google Maps bottling plant search for Virginia: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=bottling ... 41&t=m&z=6