Recently I discovered that laundry machine drums make for a great fire pit, possibly smokeless.
Also I saw someone make a big vermicompost bin, and placed his worms in a bathtub.
What other scrap stuff could be turned to make great value and quality of it?
Specially from big appliances, Such as fridges, wooden closets, sinks, tubs.
Things you could use in the garden, garage, home, etc
Ideas for recycling scraps and old appliances
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My grandpa had an old refrigerator that he made into a small smokehouse. This would take an old refrigerator pre-plastic interior. Talk about good eats.
The washing machine drum and the transparent door-bowl can be used as flower pots. Also people split the drums of solar water heaters/boilers and make them into Barbeque grills. We use a broken unpowered fridge as a cupboard to store dry foods and herbs in jars and what not in the garden. Thin long metal pieces can be used to support young plants. My aunt has taken the stainless sink basin from a kitchen sink, placed it on a makeshift base and uses it along with one of those camping mini water barrels to have a small sink in the garden where she can wash her hands, vegetables and clean fish or prep meat outside so she doesnt make a mess in the kitchen and wasps do not approach her main kitchen. The water gets collected on a bucket under the drain.
My parents used a couple of old refrigerators as mouse-proof storage for bedding at our cabin when I was a kid. A neighbor used an old top load washing machine as a centrifugal expeller for making apple cider. I once buried a chest freezer as a kind of mini root cellar. I buried it level with the ground and then put a tarp and hay bales over it. It worked ok, but it was a pain to clean off to open and then the seal leaked and it filled up with water during the snow melt. That’s all I got.