Yes, there are other creative new uses for old oil barrels …
We’ve come across examples of oil barrels repurposed as bike racks, cabinets, and now emergency-survival-kits-slash-stoves, among other things.
Now here’s a BBQ / fire pit (designed by Bart Vos; above photo via Lineo) and three different seating examples.
- “Sweet Seat … an upcycled 55 gallon drum lined with recycled bike tubes. The seat and base are fabricated from recycled wood from a deck, the drink holder is made from bike chain rings balanced by a bike pedal.” (via ReGEARED on Etsy)
- Chairs. (top via CoolMaterial; bottom, via Pinterest here, with link to a source site that no longer exists)
![Japanese designer Hikaru Imamura, has turned an oil drum into a survival kit that can sustain up to 30 people for two days. The ‘Heat Rescue Disaster Recovery’ kit is inspired by the tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last year. The tragic incident killed as many as 20,000 people and left most people homeless and without sustenance.
The care package features necessities such as food, water, towels, work gloves, and utensils. The oil drum not only stores the contents, but can also be transformed into a stove to boil water, cook hot food, and keep warm.
Click through for more images of this innovative design:
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Japanese designer Hikaru Imamura, has turned an oil drum into a survival kit that can sustain up to 30 people for two days. The ‘Heat Rescue Disaster Recovery’ kit is inspired by the tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last year. The tragic incident killed as many as 20,000 people and left most people homeless and without sustenance.
The care package features necessities such as food, water, towels, work gloves, and utensils. The oil drum not only stores the contents, but can also be transformed into a stove to boil water, cook hot food, and keep warm.
Click through for more images of this innovative design:
Upcycled Oil Drum Survival Kit Doubles as A Stove [Pics] - PSFK
Today’s pallet fix:
Pallets made into a deck with a garden. Bonus: A repurposed barrel!
(via Rue des Relookeurs; spotted on Pinterest here)
Related: Info here and here on adding backing to pallets for use in gardens, plus other DIY tips.
Over the past several months, I’ve come across photos of this colorful courtyard in London where old barrels are used as planters — and am finally sharing one. Some of you maybe have been here — Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden?
(Photo via Rita Smith here.)
For barrels repurposed as bike racks and cabinets, among other items, see earlier Unconsumption posts here.
From housing oil to housing bikes
While browsing online, I’ve come across a good amount of bike-related repurposing, and have spotted a couple of new uses for oil barrels, but this is the first instance of bike racks made from barrels that I can remember seeing.
In areas where bikes don’t need to be secured, use of racks like these could be good.
(“bike park” designed by Roberto Volpe; via rifUSE)
Turning steel into lace
New York-based artist Cal Lane turns old metal oil cans and drums, car parts, wheelbarrows, and other everyday objects into lacy works of art.
Some sculptors, including Richard Serra, who has called welding “a form of stitching,” use the technique to join pieces of metal. Ms. Lane, by contrast, uses her torch to cut baroque patterns into such mundane objects as shovels, Dumpsters and old oil drums.
The work is about the contrasts between the industrial and the fanciful, the opaque and the transparent.
(via The New York Times)
Pictured, via Benrimon Contemporary: “Fabricated House,” a plasma-cut oil can.
From Inhabitat:
“Vibrazioni’s repurposed oil barrel furniture sits on the fine line between art and design while making a poetic comment on the current oil crisis. Designed by Alberto Dassasso, the line of chairs, stools, tables, and lamps are made from discarded industrial barrels that are used in different industrial sectors ranging from petrochemicals to food.”
I’m not sure if this falls into the category of upcycling, repurposing, or just plain recycling, but whatever it is I want one. German design group Lockengeloet saves oil barrels from the harbor in Hamburg that are no longer leak proof, takes a tin opener to open them up, and turns them into cabinets.
(via Treehugger)
