Looking for idea for handy meal storage (rodent proof)

Hugh 2

Hi I am looking for some sort of meal storage place to keep calf feed dry and rodent proof preferably moveable something like coal bunker on pallet.
Also looking for commercial type wheelie bin to store rubbish till there is enough to go to dump.(seems like they are 500 plus new and don't see them any cheaper on done-deal.
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks.

Reggie.

This is what i use
http://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/ibc-storage-tanks-for-sale-tops-removed/6212790

I get an old fitted sheet off a bed to cover the top of them to keep the birds out and the rodents cant get up to the top of the tank

Timmaay

Better again, just get a normal IBC, cut the top yourself, and put 2 hinges on it. You could probably put a simple slid on the bottom of it also, like a coal bunker, to let the feed come out.

Reggie.

Timmaay wrote: »

Better again, just get a normal IBC, cut the top yourself, and put 2 hinges on it. You could probably put a simple slid on the bottom of it also, like a coal bunker, to let the feed come out.

be awkward the way the cage is around the tank, i was considering a lid and just went for the sheet in the end as you just throw it back and pull it back when your done. Its handier as you will have to pull overr the tank when it gets near empty to get the last bit of meal out of it and a lid would be only in the way IMO

jd06

a big freezer, hold as much as an ibc,
great job

rs8

would you get a handy priced meal bin on done deals?

bbam

jd06 wrote: »

a big freezer, hold as much as an ibc,
great job

How do you get the freezer filled ??

We throw the IBC into a builders trailer and get it filled bulk in the store...
Holds 680-700kg, the loader on the DB996 then lifts it off and into the slatted shed for feeding.. very handy.

jd06

bbam wrote: »

How do you get the freezer filled ??

We throw the IBC into a builders trailer and get it filled bulk in the store...
Holds 680-700kg, the loader on the DB996 then lifts it off and into the slatted shed for feeding.. very handy.

we bring it home in the half tonne bag, handball it in. 5 min. 2 freezers

DK man

I use a few wheelie bins- very handy to wheel it around the shed. I got them free as bin company didn't come to collect these even though they were asked to. They are strong and I can't imagine rats eating their way in

Hugh 2

DK man wrote: »

I use a few wheelie bins- very handy to wheel it around the shed. I got them free as bin company didn't come to collect these even though they were asked to. They are strong and I can't imagine rats eating their way in

Although ----
The "icb" with open tops are a great idea I think I will pick up a few ( can't argue with the price )

If they were not too expensive I would like to get something like "forecourt coal/fuel bunker with pallet fork holes" --- (they seem more usable ie can get stuff out without having to climb/lean in.)

I have used a few freezers in past (mainly to store dog food and one for A.I. Tank )but mice while unable to get into freezer happily made home in the electric motor area....

Ideally I would love to get a large commercial wheelie bin. Seen 1100 litres ones for sale on donedeal for 200 euro (Dublin delivery only ) which would look neater near house ......No rubbish collection round here and would want to store till I have a trailer load ( without feeding rodents )

Thanks for the replies.

Hugh 2

rs8 wrote: »

would you get a handy priced meal bin on done deals?

I see a few nice new portable ones but without prices ( I will keep an eye on ones with prices - but I mainly want it for calf house it may just be a wee bit too expensive)

Reggie.

Hugh 2 wrote: »

Although ----
The "icb" with open tops are a great idea I think I will pick up a few ( can't argue with the price )

If they were not too expensive I would like to get something like "forecourt coal/fuel bunker with pallet fork holes" --- (they seem more usable ie can get stuff out without having to climb/lean in.)

I have used a few freezers in past (mainly to store dog food and one for A.I. Tank )but mice while unable to get into freezer happily made home in the electric motor area....

Ideally I would love to get a large commercial wheelie bin. Seen 1100 litres ones for sale on donedeal for 200 euro (Dublin delivery only ) which would look neater near house ......No rubbish collection round here and would want to store till I have a trailer load ( without feeding rodents )

Thanks for the replies.

If your going to get them off that ad. Look for Kevin and say you want fairly clean ones if possible and he can clean you out ones that might be stored somewhere else

hugo29

would it not be easier to just get a meal bin for 170 euro and thats it job done, no messing or cutting

bikes

Used a standard coal bunker for meal once,the rats burrowed under it and ate the bottom out of it.

Hugh 2

hugo29 wrote: »

would it not be easier to just get a meal bin for 170 euro and thats it job done, no messing or cutting

Standard bin for 170 ? yes prey tell me where would you get a bin for 170?

Hugh 2

bikes wrote: »

Used a standard coal bunker for meal once,the rats burrowed under it and ate the bottom out of it.

I used plastic bins to store horse food and they did the same thing - use metal one now.(only a few horses so only need to store a bag at a time

hugo29

Hugh 2 wrote: »

Standard bin for 170 ? yes prey tell me where would you get a bin for 170?

i am talking about the black bins now which hold approx 600 weight

local meal merchant who i buy off sells the bins for circa 170 euro

Conmaicne Mara

There do be 1100 litre wheelie bins on DD by times, for some reason they always seem to be in Wexford?

Reggie.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

There do be 1100 litre wheelie bins on DD by times, for some reason they always seem to be in Wexford?

Jersey must have been swiping them on the nights out

Hugh 2

hugo29 wrote: »

i am talking about the black bins now which hold approx 600 weight

local meal merchant who i buy off sells the bins for circa 170 euro

Sorry I misunderstood (I was thinking you meant something on legs)
I use standard bins for storing beastings and early milk but in the past I have had rats push off lid to go in for meal (the odd one could not get out and you would get a major fright when putting hand down for a scoop of meal)
When I clamped them closed (or put weights on lid) they got busy gnawing holes on the bottom.(I fn hate them rats)

Farmer Pudsey

Hugh 2 wrote: »

Sorry I misunderstood (I was thinking you meant something on legs)
I use standard bins for storing beastings and early milk but in the past I have had rats push off lid to go in for meal (the odd one could not get out and you would get a major fright when putting hand down for a scoop of meal)
When I clamped them closed (or put weights on lid) they got busy gnawing holes on the bottom.(I fn hate them rats)

Did you ever hear of poison

Hugh 2

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Did you ever hear of poison

Yep went to war on rats over the winter (Finding that they ate their way into my fathers old Jeep was the last straw(Old Jeep was one way I used to keep horse feed and hay dry near stables

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sort of self propelled wheelie bin...))
Well for almost 2 weeks they kept taking the bait and last week while cleaning out outhouses we started finding carcasses so I am now determined not to let them get any feed too close to the dwelling house.

I resisted using poison all along as we used to have Owls patrolling the farmyard at nigh time one used to perch on the mirror of the tractor in the cattle shed.

Reggie.

heres a pic of the ibc i use

Hugh 2

Reggie. wrote: »

heres a pic of the ibc i use

Thanks Reggie
Looks very handy cant argue with the price of those ibc's.
I notice the step you made to help with reaching in........

Muckit

DK man wrote: »

I use a few wheelie bins- very handy to wheel it around the shed. I got them free as bin company didn't come to collect these even though they were asked to. They are strong and I can't imagine rats eating their way in

Oh rats will eat through them no bother. I use wheelie bin s too for meal. They didn't gnaw through these but sisters she had on top of decking!

Hugh 2

Cheapest Irish place I found (new) commercial wheelie bins so far is "ecostore" (the wheels bin up off of the ground.)(.ie)

Conmaicne Mara

Muckit wrote: »

Oh rats will eat through them no bother. I use wheelie bin s too for meal. They didn't gnaw through these but sisters she had on top of decking!

Rats will eat through most stuff, they ate their way up through a concrete floor in my little shed, so plastic won't be an issue to them. There's a particular way to reseal that hole in the concrete but I don't want to be giving Rovi more work than he's already had

hugo29

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Rats will eat through most stuff, they ate their way up through a concrete floor in my little shed, so plastic won't be an issue to them. There's a particular way to reseal that hole in the concrete but I don't want to be giving Rovi more work than he's already had

Dynamite con

Conmaicne Mara

hugo29 wrote: »

Dynamite con

It'd sure take care of the rats, I don't know if it'd do my little stone shed many favours though :pac:

Hugh 2

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

It'd sure take care of the rats, I don't know if it'd do my little stone shed many favours though :pac:

I'd say put down a few blocks of poison into hole before filling it with cement/concrete.
Would that be what you are eluding to.?

Reggie.

Hugh 2 wrote: »

Thanks Reggie
Looks very handy cant argue with the price of those ibc's.
I notice the step you made to help with reaching in........

Yeah the little height makes a huge difference let me tell ya