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Rain Catcher 275
Top-cut tote with screened inlet, brass spigot, overflow port. Fits under standard residential downspout in under 10 minutes.
Raised Growing Bed
Tote sliced lengthwise into two waist-high beds. Drainage holes drilled, cage cleaned and re-painted.
Mash Tun Build
Insulated 330 with sparge fitting, internal false bottom, removable lid. 1.5 BBL working volume.
Hydroponic Sump
Tote with two siphon ports, pump pad, optional UV pre-treat. Designed for media-bed loops.
Construction Water Caddy
Used tote on heavy-duty pallet with 12V pump, 25 ft hose, dust-suppression nozzle.
Hot-Tub Base
Tote shell repurposed as soaking tank base. Wood-clad finishing optional. Ships flat, builds in a weekend.
If you can sketch it, we can probably weld it.
Past requests: tournament BMX water jumps, aquarium sumps, emergency-shelter water reserves, chicken-coop integrated feeders, kombucha continuous-brew rigs.
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How a sketch becomes a quote becomes a delivery.
Get a quote →Why repurposing makes sense for tanks we can't refill.
Not every tank that comes in qualifies for resale or reconditioning. Repurposing is what we do with the ones that don't.
Where the input comes from. Roughly 8% of inbound tanks have bottle damage we can't safely undo — through-cracks, deep stress whitening, valve seat damage that breaks the seal. These tanks can't go back into liquid service. They used to go to the recycler. Now they go to fab.
What we make. Rain catchers are about 35% of the output. Raised growing beds are 18%. Mash tuns and brewery accessories are 11%. The remainder is a long tail of custom — site water caddies, hydroponic sumps, hot-tub bases, BMX water jumps, compost-tea brewers, chicken coop water towers.
Why the prices work. A new rain barrel from a garden center is $80–$140 for 50 gallons. A repurposed 275-gallon IBC rain catcher from us is $145–$185 for 275 gallons. The per-gallon math is dramatically better, and the input cost (a tank we'd otherwise scrap) is nominal.
Lead times. Standard builds (rain catcher, raised bed) ship in 5-10 business days from order. Custom builds are 2-3 weeks because we need to scope, quote, and schedule fab time around our retail line.
If you only read one section.
- 01Repurposing rescues tanks that failed reconditioning and would otherwise be scrap.
- 02Standard builds: rain catcher, raised bed, mash tun. Ships in 5-10 days.
- 03Custom builds: bring us a sketch. Quote in 3 days, build in 2 weeks.
- 04Per-gallon math beats new garden-center rain barrels by roughly 4x.
- 05Most builds expose the cage and original tag — the honest industrial aesthetic is a feature, not a flaw.