Goldmine

[Wade E]

Look what I found at the recycling center today! 2 5 gallon glass Crystal Rock carboys that were used for only holding water then making wine. He gave up wine making as he was getting to old and is moving into a retirement home where he can be cared for. Wish I could have met him before he got rid of his 3 barrels and all his other wine making tools but Ill take these for free and thats a great deal. He hasnt used them in over 5 years so I have the soaking in bleach and water just to be sure but they were clean.

 

[NorthernWinos]

Some people have all the luck...You with 2 free ones...Waldo with 5 at a garage sale and Jobe with 50 extra cases of bottles.....Geez...living in the boonies has it's drawbacks...

 

[jobe05]

Great Find Wade!

NW: Sometimes I consider getting bottles for free luck........ but right now with all the room they take up it's almost a curse.

I'm gonna clear a space out in the shed and store them out there. Right now they are in the middle of the family room with barely enough room to walk by them. Plus I got about 20 cases in my wine room which doesn't leave much room for my equipment.

I wonder what it would cost to ship a pallet of 30 or 40 cases by freight? Any shipping people out there!?

 

[rgecaprock]

Wade, you lucky dog!!!


I'm sorting through my orphan bottles today....all colors, and shapes to get enough to bottle wine tomorrow !!!!


Ramona

 

[NorthernWinos]

Ramona...being in a big city like you are there must be plenty of places to get bottles.


We have a friend with a supper club down by where we use to live...They put their wine bottles in a glass dumpster...another friend picks them up...sometimes the girls leave boxes out for him. They like when he takes them...more dumpster space.

 

[Waldo]

Way to go wade !!!

 

[Wade E]

Well I just got home and found some liquid around one of the carboys full of bleach/water and discovered a small crack. So Im down to 1 but thats still better than none. I had to drain it with a hose cause I was afraid to move it and have 5 gallons all over the floor.

 

[grapeman]

Well I just got home and found some liquid around one of the carboys full of bleach/water and discovered a small crack. So Im down to 1 but thats still better than none. I had to drain it with a hose cause I was afraid to move it and have 5 gallons all over the floor.

Well that answers my question on the other post about the bleach through the racking hose

 

[Wade E]

Im going back down there to get my money back!

 

[rgecaprock]

NW, I try to keep around the number ofbottles I will need as I have no room to store any in this little apartment so some times I get down to the odds and ends and use them up before I restock. Someday I hope that I can have a house with a wine room of my own then look out!!!


Ramona

 

[rgecaprock]

Wade,


Wise move with the hose. Not to mention getting cut if you tried piciking it up and having it go to pieces.


Ramona

 

[NorthernWinos]

I was so happy for you.


We got two carboys at a garage sale once...when we got them home one had a cracked neck...then come to find out they were eight gallon ones and we probably couldn't pick it up if it was full....so we got 0 for 2.


Anyone need an eight gallon carboy???

 

[summersolstice]

I recently bought some equipment from a guy who primarily made beer, though he dabbled in wine as well. I brought home 2 five gallon carboys that were cloudy and dusty. While I was washing them, I discovered what I first thought was a flaw in the side. I got it into the sun where my aging eyes could examine it better and discovered a metal pellet imbedded in the side of the carboy. I still wonder how that pellet got there and what kept it from shattering the carboy into a thousand pieces!

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[rgecaprock]

Strange

 

[PolishWineP]

It's kind of hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like it was there when it was manufactured. Is that how it looks in real time?

 

[PolishWineP]

Some people have all the luck...You with 2 free ones...Waldo with 5 at a garage sale and Jobe with 50 extra cases of bottles.....Geez...living in the boonies has it's drawbacks...

Yeah, but for the price of a house or farm around here, I'll live here vs where Wade lives. If I lived back east we'd be in adjoining Fridgidaire boxes! (Of course, we'd have 1 of them just for wine...

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