All About Barrel Coasters

Many summer residents place barrels of water on their land plots. Most often they are used for watering the vegetable garden. These designs can be made from a wide variety of materials. So that they can stand steadily and not topple over, it is worth purchasing a special stand for them. You should know what such products are and how you can make them yourself.

The barrel stand is a fairly rigid and durable structure, consisting of square pipes. These products allow you to securely fix a vertical container with liquid.

It should be noted that such supports are made from different materials. In any case, they must be durable and durable. These stands are usually heavy. The higher they are, the more the water pressure will be. On their surface, special stoppers should be mounted, which will allow the container to be fixed as securely as possible.

In hardware stores, consumers can see a wide variety of barrel coasters. They may differ depending on what material they are made from. Let's highlight the most common models.

• Wooden. These samples are best used as coasters for wooden round barrels. But such containers are practically not used for irrigating plants. They can be used in bath rooms. These models in the manufacturing process must undergo careful processing with a special tool that allows you to make the surface of the wood smooth and even. In addition, such material is covered with various protective compounds, including antiseptic ones. Most often, structures are made from pine, oak, since these species are considered the most durable, solid and reliable.

• Metallic. These options are much more common. They are usually purchased for placement in greenhouses and greenhouses for drip irrigation of seedlings. Galvanized steel is mainly used as a basis for such structures. It can withstand sudden changes in temperature, frost, precipitation and mechanical stress. And also a processed iron base is often used to create.

Such structures can serve perfectly for many years and even decades. Metal structures are transportable. Compared to models made of stone and wood, they will have less weight. Metal products for garden barrels are often of a collapsible type. If necessary, they can be easily and quickly dismantled and moved to another place on the site. They can be used for metal containers, sometimes they are also purchased for plastic products.

• Plastic. For the production of such coasters for summer cottages, only the most durable and reliable types of plastic are used. They are absolutely not susceptible to corrosion, rotting under the influence of moisture, the influence of various chemicals. Such models can be used for metal or plastic containers. Today, large structures are produced that are designed for several barrels at once. Sometimes they are made in 2 tiers.

Such stands may differ from each other and depending on what kind of containers they are intended for, because they can have different volumes. Most often, there are models for barrels of 1, 10, 20, 30, 80 liters. But samples are also produced for tanks with a volume of 100, 200, 1000 liters.

Such stands for water tanks have a significant cost, so they are often made from improvised means. Consider the simplest option for the production of such structures from wood with your own hands.

Beforehand, you should make accurate calculations of the required materials. Such a scheme will simplify the creation process, which is divided into 2 stages: selection of tools, materials and direct manufacturing.

To make the stand, you can use the following tools and materials:

• wooden beams;
• saw;
• screws;
• nuts;
• screwdriver;
• self-tapping screws;
• simple pencil for marking.

First, decide on the place where the barrel and stand will be placed. It should be as flat and tamped as possible.

When the place is selected, you can start making the structure.

• For this, wooden blocks are taken. They should be connected together in such a way that a product looks like a simple cube.
• It is recommended to pre-process the material with a grinding tool to remove all roughness from the surface. It is also better to immediately apply a protective coating to it to extend its service life.
• You can fasten wooden elements together using special screws or nuts and screws.
• Then they take a barrel and make a small hole in its lower part. Its diameter will depend on the fitting used. A little higher above it, another hole of the same kind is formed. All this will be needed for a more convenient connection of the catchment area.

In the future, polypropylene pipes will be inserted into the holes formed. In this case, it will be necessary to ensure that the size of the structure corresponds to the dimensions of the stand with the tank. Similar options can fit plastic barrels.

For more information on how to make a wooden stand, see the video.

If you have a welding machine, then you can weld a metal stand for a summer cottage. In this case, you should take square shaped pipes. They form a base in the form of a rectangle with supports. At the same time, expect that the lower part of the container can firmly anchor in the structure.

For better stability, additional supports can be fixed in the center of the stand. To do this, they take several profile pipes at once and fasten them together, forming a product that looks like a shelf in appearance. The base of the tank will be located on it, and the elements on the sides will not allow the tank to tip over.

A metal profile can be used to make a stand for horizontal placement of barrels. But it is just suitable for convenient storage of containers. It will be impossible to pour water into them and use for irrigation.

In this case, you need to weld a rectangular structure with side supports. As a rule, such a product is designed to accommodate several tanks at once. This option allows you to significantly save space in the country.

Sometimes these stands are made from old unnecessary tires. Often, a single structure is created, consisting of several interconnected automobile wheels.First, they take several such products and fix them together, while it will be necessary to make a solid foundation. To do this, you can use a backing made of durable plastic or treated metal. As a result, you get the water tank itself.

The stand is also made from other tires that are securely glued to each other. A previously made barrel of wheels is installed on the upper part, into which liquid can be poured. Thus, the result will be a stable structure for watering the garden.