Thread: WHISKEY BARRELS-where can you find them?

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i do a large pirat haunt and have a few of those big whiskey barrels.i got them gave to me and a couple at a auction.i want more.is there a place that sells them? where can you get some deals on barrels?

Kentucky Whiskey Barrels

try posting in craigslist. u should come up with something there

this might work for you:
53 Gallon Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Barrel - eBay (item 360178033048 end time Dec-05-09 11:18:33 PST)

Or you try your hand at making them out of free wooden pallets.

I'd love to have a barrel or two to use for a pirate area or zombie farm, but even "used" I think real ones are too pricey for my haunt. My contractor was using some bendywood to get the radius of a curve for our granite island and that might be nice to use but I think it's pretty expensive. I may have to go the foamboard route (either cut and shape thicker pieces or try forming the 1/4 inch sheathing kind) when I end up needing a barrel. I wonder if some vinyl wood-looking strip planks could be a possible material to work with. Those should come in a range of colors too and I'm thinking you could pick up some clearance stuff hopefully cheaply.

Oak Island sells them in their Scare Products catalog. Click the link to see their catalog. The barrels are on the props page. They are $69. It is a fun catalog to look at to get ideas from. http://www.oakislandproductions.com/...009Catalog.pdf

If you have any wineries near you, check with them. The barrels don't last forever so they may have some they need to get rid of. You can also buy new ones at wine/beer making stores. There's a home brewery store in Chesterfield, VA that sells them (but they're not cheap).

I would use the real ones you have for your close up shots, but then I would just take the 55 gallon plastic drums that seem pretty easy to come by, and paint them up to look like whiskey barrells and use them in low light and the back ground, you could also take foam and cut the "boards" out and connect them to the barrell for depth, I think with practice and some of the painting techniques I've seen on here you could pull it off. And they'd be lighter.