Video 1 Transcript
I've seen quite a few people who have used used railroad ties, you know, those like 8x8 beams for raised garden beds, but a lot of them have are, you know, kind of impregnated or like coated in creosote and that chemical will leach out and it's not really rated for, you know, using it residentially and probably not good to have absorbed through your vegetables in your garden. So, but if you can get a hold of like a plastic or composite railroad tie, sometimes you can find them used on Facebook for maybe like $50 a piece if you're lucky. You know, those could make really, really useful raised garden beds. You can also reuse them for all sorts of other projects and I don't think they would decompose anytime soon.
Video 2 Transcript
Okay, a few repurposing ideas. Number one, IBC totes in cages. Now, the plastic totes, they can be contaminated with chemicals that you don't really want to have around, and the plastic can become brittle if it's left out in the sun outside for, you know, a year or two. It can become more brittle, but the cages are fantastic containers for firewood. You can stack them full of cut firewood. You can even stack them too high. I've had a friend who does that. You know, you can just have a privacy fence, essentially, that's like four foot thick, and, you know, of this four by four by four, you know, firewood crates. Another thing I've done, I've repurposed a small trampoline into like a mobile chicken run, where, you know, just put chicken wire around it, and you can kind of scooch it around and give them food and water and let them free range eat the grass. Another thing I've used IBC totes for, especially if, you know, they're not full of chemical, if they're like, you know, had water stored in them previously, you can cut off the tops, leave them in their cage, and then use it as kind of like a compost bin. So if, for example, you have rotten fruit tree, you know, fruit, you can just throw it in there and let it kind of decompose without making a big mess or super stinky all over the place. So that's one way I've used IBC totes. They're just very versatile. You can also use them for, you know, shelters for animals if you want to, you know, cut a hole out for them. You could even make like an entire house using like the frames of IBC cages and then, you know, pouring in concrete in between them or I know you could get creative. You know, I always thought it'd be cool to have a house built of like IBC cages and totes, because that four foot of still air would probably be a great insulator.
