Picked up a couple of +100 gallon whisky barrels today, and they still had a little whisky in them. They smell lovely - and that's as close as I get to drinking the stuff these days.



I got them to use as water butts, but I'm tempted to not fill them just so I can sniff them now and again. :lol:

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I hear you are quite partial to smelling big fat things with holes in them ….

It's near the holes I do the smelling!

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Is that the only reason you brought the trailer across  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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beats my food safe blue barrel water butt any day!

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kingpleb wrote:

Is that the only reason you brought the trailer across

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Feck me do they not have wood in cheesey land anymore!?!?That must be circa 2tonne nearly on that trailer never mind the trailer which i guess is about 800kg?!? FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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It's IPE which is a tropical wood that doesn't grow in Swizerland. I can get it here but it's much more expensive. Actually the UK was quite a bit cheaper even than Germany and it meant I could get a few other things at the same time and get Craig to do some work on my car.

As for the weight, I don't know. It's a 3500kg trailer with a load capacity of 2690kg - so your guess of trailer weight of 800kg was very good. I calculated the wood at 2400kg. The barrels are about 60-80kg each. When I went to pick it up I asked them how much it weighs and they didn't know. They had a calculator which said 2800kg which would have put me well over, but they said the calculator overestimates by 5-10% so they don't get haulage problems with payloads being more than quoted.

So was I over, was I under? I don't know, but either way I was very close to the max.

you should have drunk the whiskey to make it lighter Kurt..  ... - .- -.




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Yes, that would've been safer.

I dont think the 5-0 over here would be that bothered about it seeing as you was on johnny foreigner plates

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Looks lovely when wet.



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