She starts talking about how to clean 5:50

I love these things, buy them all the time for all kinds of projects. Every one that I’ve ever run across has been galvanized steel. They are so light, I believed they were aluminum at first as well. Just wanted to share that in case anybody is looking to use them in any fabrication type applications, as I do. You could always just test it with a magnet to double check. Steel will attract, aluminum will not.

Love the valves on these. Years back we had to climb into the big black round ones to fit the valves, still remember that scrabbling around in the dark stinking of concentrated blackcurrant juice even after they had been washed out!

I totally lucked with two that had ORGANIC Syrup. Had the USDA stamp and everything. I was very happy.

A little extra information on the totes. They come in two main sizes. 275 gallon and 330 gallon. You can get them on a pallet that is metal, plastic, or wood. Most come on a metal pallet. The cages are lightweight but are actually still. They are aluminum and they will rust over time but it takes a decade or so. There are three main types of valves that come on them. There is a ball valve, a flapper valve, and a cylinder valve. The ball valve and cylinder valve are the best ones. The flapper valve doesn't last as long. You can also get them with a 2 in bunghole in the cap. The bunghole and the main valve at the bottom are generally both standard fine thread 2 in valves. It's very easy to make an adapter for whatever you need with commonly available materials. Hope that helps someone!

You could load the IBC tote onto your pickup truck, fill with about 75 gallons of water (about 600 pounds), add detergent and drive around a bit. The stop and go action will agitate the water/detergent and save a lot of work. Also, you could wait for the sun to heat the water and then drive around.

Cool vid

An old fashioned rag mop works well

What is the recommended bar pressure for cleaning an ibc tank with a pressure washer

Great video, you have a pleasant voice also. How did you guys lift them into the bed of truck?

I have an idea I want to get an opinion on. I want to clean out a food grade IBC and hear hot water will do. Would it work if I hooked up my water heater to my pressure washer? I need to drain the heater anyway and I can always let it cool a bit before actually running the pressure washer.

Mine had Canola oil, glueten free and organic from Canada. There was about 5-10 gallons of residual oil I drained but I haven't found a way to clean the rest out that coats the bladder. It's thick and nasty stuff. Wish I didn't get IBCs that stored oil, water soluble ingredient totes would be easier to clean, fyi.

Can anyone tell me why I have rust/ iron like particles in the bottom of my tote? Also after 4 years one started to leak out the bottom of tote. They are stored inside in the dark

I didn’t see a link to that soap. Can you please post it?

Just go to the car wash and use the gerni. Easy as

Mine came with a pipe connected to lid to add to a pump. Mine cost 40 for a 350 gallon

If you have veggie oil in these you can collect it and run an add locally and I’m sure some that makes bio diesel would grab it. I cleaned mine by putting about 50-60 gallons of water in it with 5oz of dawn and drove around with it for a few days doing my normal running, drained and then added about 60 of nothing but water and drove around then drained again, was pretty clean after that. The 275 gallon totes are about 125 pounds empty if they have the metal pallet bottom. If I was going to get something to store potable water then the new clean food grade blue barrels would be a better choice and you need to keep them in the dark and add a small amount of bleach to keep algae from growing in them. The clear and white totes will grow algae in them if you don’t add something to prevent it and keep them covered to block the sunlight out. That was a heck of a buy on those.

What state do you live in. After 4 years what condition is the plastic tank?. Is there any cracking, brittleness and is the wooden pallet rotted yet. The ones for sale near me all have Plastic pallets. Also have these IBC totes been covered by anytype of roof structure. I live in Ohio so we get 95 degree weather in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. Most blogs only have totes lasting in the weather for about 2 to 3 years. Would you recommend now just buying a couple of 800 gallon tanks and 250 to 300 gallon pickup farm type tank. .

You didn't show how you pressure washed the inside.That seems to be the complicated part.

Maybe hang the tote upside down and power while power washing with hot soap water.

$200 for 8? Poggers dude

Its too long opening speech...

Your soapy water will still have oil in it, not a great idea to introduce this water to the garden.

Totes ma goats

I’m half way thru the video and no tutorial on the cleaning yet. Wtf!

Just get to point instead of waffling on

To much talking

Too wordy. A one minute video with 12 minutes of words.

Worst how to clean video ever

Too much farting around

Come to the point , rather drags 🥲