COAL BINS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)

COAL BINS

Have you found that the wood and coal bin that was big enough all through the summer has suddenly become ridiculously small for your winter wood and coal? If so, you might bj glad to make one of these very simple and cheap bins for coal, so leaving all the space in the bin you hav, for wood. Fig. 1 is an old oak barrel, light, yet strong and pleasantly shaped.

Cut a hole in the boltom about Bin x Bin and make a shoe 12in x 12in x 2in deep with afioor board extending far enough for the barrel to stand on. When the bin is full of coal the shoe will be firmly held in place and the coal will easily be shovelled from the shoe into the scuttle. For the shoe, lin boards will be strong enough. Make the lids with the battens to fit inside and line the tops of the bins with water-proof felt or cover the insides of the lids in the

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same way to keep them water-tight when the lids are down. For very little money the steel ink drums are to be bought from newspaper offices. They will hold about three bags of coal and are dust proof. The ink must be burned out—this should be done well away from the house. The end and hole in the bottom must be cut out with a sharp cold chisel.

If the bins are painted they will repay any boy for the work he has put into them. Note: When a light is set to the ink drum it wiS suddenly flare up with a very vivid flame. So it is a good thing to turn the dnun upside down, prop it up a little and then thrust a lighted paper inside. The ink will bum away satisfactorily. The drum makes a good incinerator for garden and other rubbish.