School me on Trash cans

[NJHandyGuy]

so i"ve gone threw another round of rubbermaids floors are torn and handles are broken

there has to be a better way using to hold / haul scrap metal and demo debris thoughts ????

 

[davesnothere]

55 gallon drums.

 

[NJHandyGuy]

Way to heavy to lift in and outta trucks loaded done that before never again

 

[geezer48]

find some old 30 gal oil/grese drums we used them for years in the service stations.

 

[Outlawmws]

How big are the Rubbermaid? There are 20 and 30 gallon drums, (check with the local dry cleaners and oil change shops) and then there are the heavy plastic 55 gal drums and you can cut those in half pretty easily for 27 gallon tubs...

 

[5mall5nail5]

We have this massive container we through used hard drives in before destruction. The thing is SICK. It has wheels and a flip lid, but has held like 1000 lbs of computer hard drives. No idea what brand it is. Can get pics.

 

[NJHandyGuy]

please do

 

[signcrafter]

so i"ve gone threw another round of rubbermaids floors are torn and handles are broken

there has to be a better way using to hold / haul scrap metal and demo debris thoughts ????

Are you using the rubbermaid commercial brutes or just the cheap rubbermaids? If you are using the commercial brutes and going through them then you need metal containers. I've seen the brutes go through hell and back and they held up.

 

[BigAl62]

Are you using the rubbermaid commercial brutes or just the cheap rubbermaids? If you are using the commercial brutes and going through them then you need metal containers. I've seen the brutes go through hell and back and they held up.

Second that. We have the commercial ones at work (auto repair shop)and they take a beating! Lazy guys drag them behind cars to the dumpster and they still hold up (NO wheels, just sliding along the concrete and asphalt!). Other guys seem to try to set records for how much they can put in them before they empty them (and it usually takes 2 guys to lift to dump into the dumpster).

 

[Tavy]

55 gallon drum. Sawzall and/or mexican speed wrench. Cut to fit.

 

[cglasgow]

How 'bout old school:

 

[RedFordTruck]

How 'bout old school:

This is what i was gonna suggest

 

[RCStocker]

You really wonder why rubber does not hold up to steel? Need not reply to that question.
Steel cans, drums.

Now for the answer. If you are scrapping out a lot of metal get yourself a small trailer and put sides on it. find old drums or steel cans. Put them in the trailer. Toss thie different metals in the drums. When full take the trailer to the recycle place. It will be all sorted and you will not need to load it. If you get larger appliances you can put them on the trailer until it is full. I have an old trailer in the barn with scrap in it. I find that I use some of the scrap one in a while. Once a year I let the kids haul it off and have the money.

 

[jmm]

If you can find them, they make 55 gallon style drums made of heavy duty card board (sides and bottom) and aluminum (joints and top edge). At the mill they use them to ship plastic pellets to us, and we reuse them for everything. Including scrap. They hold up almost indefinitely if kept relatively dry, but even when wet they won't fall apart immediately (they just don't last as long). They're very light and will hold a LOT of weight.

http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-7900/Drums-And-Pails/55-Gallon-Fiber-Drum

 

[harley-haley]

the Brutes with the dolly under them seems to be working for me pretty good.
http://www.uline.com/BL_8797/Brute-Container-Dollies?keywords=brute
http://www.uline.com/BL_6756/Brute-Containers?keywords=brute

 

[BD1]

I use 30 and 55 gallon heavy plastic drums. We get our glycol in them.
I hole sawed 1" opening opposite each other and load with front end loader on tractor. They are still solid. I had to cut the top off with sawzall and work great.

 

[JeremyManning]

we use some heavy duty blue boxes at work

 

[theoldwizard1]

The reason the floors a torn out is you are dragging them on concrete. Get a 2 wheel dolly or a 4 caster furniture dolly or get a set of wheel for a Brute

The reason the handles are torn off is too much weight in the can. Lighten the load or go to smaller cans (Brute 10 or 20 gallon) for really heavy construction material (broken tile, etc.)

I have 5 Rubbermaid cans with "drains" because when my son was growing up, he would drag them to the curb every week. He is 30 now. I actually like the drains. They let liquid out !

The trash guys actually cracked a couple of Rubbermaid rectangular cans. Bouncing them off the lip of the truck at around 0° F will do that !!

 

[WWIIjeep]

+1 for Rubbermaid Brutes on dollies.

We have those at work and they've held up really well to general shop abuse.

For scrap metal we use stacking forklift bins and tip-bins. Can't break those (we've tried).

If you don't have a forklift, for scrap metal, you'll probably want to stay in the range of 5-gallon or 20-gallon cans. Or cut plastic 55-gallon drums into 2 tubs like Outlawmws suggested. Then drill and Sawzall hand-hold slots 180-degrees apart near the top edge for fairly easy 2-man lifting.

 

[Greatbear]

Good luck so far with my Toter wheeled trash bins:

Also have two Brutes, one with a dolly.

 

[cheechi]

Not exactly related, but I love the brute on the dolly with the pockets like you see janitors use. Great for cleaning stuff as well as items I only use when cleaning up, most of the time the can is used more for storage than a bin though.

 

[JKady]

For scrap metal we use 30 gallon drums at work. They do get heavy if you heap them full but 2 guys can usually pick one up to dump it into a trailer.

 

[adragontattoo]

One Rubbermaid bin has been completely destroyed by my trash guys, run over, kicked and a variety of other "issues". The newer one is beginning to look very similar.

Im thinking I may just track down a couple 30 gallon drums or similar and use them instead.

 

[signcrafter]

One Rubbermaid bin has been completely destroyed by my trash guys, run over, kicked and a variety of other "issues". The newer one is beginning to look very similar.

Im thinking I may just track down a couple 30 gallon drums or similar and use them instead.

Is this a commercial grade rubbermaid brute or just the rubbermaid ones you buy from home depot? I worked in a mill where the younger guys would put the rubbermiad brutes through hell and back. But these were the 60-70 dollar a can commercial grades. They would see how far the could kick them, roll them down ramps, drive over them with forklifts, line them up and go full blast with the forklift and see how many they could hit and how far they would fly.

Again, there is a HUGE difference between the rubbermaids and the commercial grade rubbermaid brutes.

 

[srmofo]

Way to heavy to lift in and outta trucks loaded done that before never again

Don't fill them up. If you can't break that habit, then cut them down shorter.

We use plastic ones at the shop for trash cans. We drill holes and install muffler clamps for handles.