Gaylord boxes (used)

cardboard and paper recyclers

My Gaylord of choice are chemical totes. They are four x four x four feet made of plastic with metal frame. They do not collapse, are not destroyed by water/weather, and are readily available in this part of the country. They even have a drain valve so if you leave them outside you can drain them before the trip to the yard. They will outlive this scrapper. I have about 30 of them filled with scrap and used oil. I may have a contact for you in Omaha.

I have used the same totes that Patriot76 uses. Frequently I will pull out the plastic tub, place it on a pallet, and use it for lightweight material. I have also used them for shipping material.

This is some great ideas and information for getting free or reasonable priced containers. I'm always on the look out for storage containers and other useful materials that can be used to make other things like shelving and such.

What I have a few of are the grey shipping tubs with covers that discount stores like Wal*Mart use for the small items. The tubs are about 3 x 4 and a bit over 2 foot high and you can stack them with the covers on and without the covers they will fit together like tapered cups and such. I have been using them for years mostly for sorting things and leaf & grass work. I put a piece of rope on them so I can pull them around as they slid easy enough with the way they are designed with ribs on the bottoms. I took most of the metal latches off of them that lock the lids on as they mostly got in the way. I think I have 8 or more of them with a couple of them seeing their better days for being pulled around full of whatever. I will use many of them on a project around the yard, one for big sticks and such, one for leaves and grass, a trash one, a scrap metal one and so on.

I use one when I bring scrap aluminum to the yard as it fits in my vehicle fine. I can fit 2 in if needed. But most times one will do and I will have other smaller containers with other scrap items in them. I'm pretty good at packing a load of most anything. I can pack the load so the eggs don't get cracked and the bread don't get squished.lol...

I use the ones patriot uses. They only weigh 120lbs ea. so I can load them into my pickup and out empty. Yard unloads with forks also.

I asked a produce guy at Wal-Mart about a watermelon gaylord, and he said I could have them. There ate the big cardboard ones that fill up a full size pallet.

Plastic recycling companies always have them. We get $4-$5 ea for them.

If you need heavy duty check with the chicken processing plants. They use the thick plastic ones that can be forklifted and are tough enough to take the abuse of tossing in electric motors and such. These are too expensive to buy new, but they damage them from time to time and discard them.

I also use the ones like Patriot has. I get them when I order bulk farm chemicals.

Like others said, watermelon boxes are good and since it's watermelon season right now in our area they should be pretty easy to find.

if i dont buy them new, i get them from a local wire company. i prefer to buy them new though.

Just got 2 of the cardboard kind yesterday, from a clothing donation warehouse.