Carboys on Concrete?

[Ajmassa]

Every election there's a candidate who isn't running again or has signs too damaged to reuse. It's bad PR to send signs to landfill. You can get a lifetime supply of them from a single call. They work perfectly as cushions for your carboys.

Yep. Absolutely love that stuff. Ive also grabbed a stack of old campaign signs too lol. I use it for everything. Both work & personal. Floor/ICRA protection, sanitizable wall panels for different covid jobs, etc. plus endless uses at home. Especially when doing things like painting, bondo or spackle.

Still have a stack of fire-rated 4x8 sheets and I find myself using it a lot. A little duct tape & corrugated plastic and you can MacGuyver anything. Big fan. It’s durable, lightweight, waterproof, and cuts w/ just a utility knife. Even just last week used it for a makeshift tool shelf.

 

[Aiserock]

Even pseudo milk crates work well. A six gallon carboy should weigh over 50 lbs when full (8 gallons of liquid plus the weight of the glass) and these crates can easily hold 60 lbs or more I generally store all my carboys in crates and only move them when filled using the crates and I work on a lino covered concrete basement. But as Jim Welch acknowledged: flying shattered glass does the same kind of (lethal) damage as shrapnel.

I need to find me some 6 gallon carboys that hold 8,

 

[Rocky]

I need to find me some 6 gallon carboys that hold 8,

I think Bernard meant "8 pounds for each gallon of liquid plus the weight of the carboy." Wine would weigh roughly 8.4 pounds per gallon.

 

[Aiserock]

I think Bernard meant "8 pounds for each gallon of liquid plus the weight of the carboy." Wine would weigh roughly 8.4 pounds per gallon.

I knew it was too good to be true

 

[winemaker81]

I put puzzle mats, designed for workout areas, in places I rest my carboys. So far it seems to work fine.

 

[Obbnw]

I use 3 gallon carboys, so much easier to handle. I do set them on concrete occasionally. I have also seen how glass explodes when hitting an unforgiving surface...