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PostPosted: Dec 10th, '12, 04:42 
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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.


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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.

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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.


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


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


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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.


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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


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