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  • What can I do with my scavanged find?

    I noticed earlier that someone had dumped part of a compost tumbler just across the stream from my lottie. I thought there had to be a use for it, so had a little paddle to collect it (ok, I say paddle, I'd forgotten how short I am, so it was more a thigh high wade! ). What I've got is the main part of one of these:



    No lid (or base, I suppose, as it's shown there) and no tumbling mechanism. From what I've read, tumblers aren't all they're cracked up to be anyway, so I doubt it's worth making/finding the missing parts?

    But it has to be good for something, surely? Any ideas?
    I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery
    My heart going boom boom boom
    "Hey" he said "Grab your things
    I've come to take you home."

  • #2
    Growing spuds?
    WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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    • #3
      Nice

      Growing spuds in?

      I'd have thought it was fairly easy to cobble together bits so it can be tumbled again.
      http://www.keithsallotment.blogspot.com/

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      • #4
        Could it be sawn it half and made into two decent size tubs for growing lovely straight, fly-free carrots or parsnips? Great bit of "Wombling" -by the way!
        When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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        • #5
          Plonk it over a Rhubarb plant and have your own forced Rhubarb very tasty....jacob
          What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
          Ralph Waide Emmerson

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          • #6
            Stick a loo plunger in one of the holes and a hair brush in another and you'll have your own personal Dalek!............Exterminate!

            Ok.........how about cutting holes in, filling with compost and using it as a strawberry tower?
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              Brilliant ideas folks, thanks I'm liking the carrots option particularly.
              I was feeling part of the scenery
              I walked right out of the machinery
              My heart going boom boom boom
              "Hey" he said "Grab your things
              I've come to take you home."

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              • #8
                Saw it in half, then drill more holes and you've two giant strawberry pots?

                How deep was the stream and how tall are you btw?!
                To see a world in a grain of sand
                And a heaven in a wild flower

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                • #9
                  find the rest of it and sell it on ebay! they cost a fortune!
                  Tori

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                  • #10
                    Great strawberry planter but put a tube in the middle which also has holes in it so that it's easier to water all the plants, even at the bottom

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                    • #11
                      Dredge the stream for the A frame.

                      My tumbler cost me £50 around the time the old king died.
                      If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess

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                      • #12
                        line it with two plastic bags and use as a water butt while you think about it
                        don't be afraid to innovate and try new things
                        remember.........only the dead fish go with the flow

                        Another certified member of the Nutters club

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Eco-Chic View Post
                          Dredge the stream for the A frame.

                          My tumbler cost me £50 around the time the old king died.
                          George VI or Elvis Presley?
                          The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
                          Brian Clough

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                          • #14
                            George VI.

                            Elvis Presley is dead?
                            If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess

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