If you had an oak barrel that was cut in half, what would you do with it?

dunno. depends on if it was cut lengthwize or the other way

*Use it as a planter (well, give it to my mum and let her use it as a planter).
*Polish it up really well so it was really smooth and use it either as storage, or as a stool depending on the exact dimensions.
*Turn it into a cat/dog basket.

Use it for a planter

I would fill one side with dirt and plant flowers in it and put it on one side of my porch.....and turn the other peice upside down and put it out in my flower bed on the other side of my porch and put pots on top of it in an arrangement with flowers in them....

Cut in half which way?

Put it outside and let it fill with rain water for watering my house plants. Rain barrel.

Fill it with soil and add flowers to it... or throw it away, I can't decide.

They had some of these at a local shop this summer and they reeked of alcohol/brandy

Turn it upside down...(so the exposed inside) is facing the ground, and create a tabletop. Using it as a coffee table or such

Just for the record, it's cut in half widthwise, so that there are two 'tops' or bottoms. The dimensions are quite large, for it was a wine cask. It's authentic, because when I saw it, the bands were loose, and after 'tapping them with a hammer and screwdriver, they are nice and tight.

FYI - If it was cut lengthwise (top to bottom) the metal bands would not hold the cask/barrel together, there would be a pile of curved slats on the ground.

...good point about the slats.

It use it to clean my room.

Now you know what kind of sense I make when I haven't slept.

Probably about as much sense as I made, creating this survey on 5 hrs of sleep in 2 days

Hmm. Plants?

Put plants in it (and soil) and put it outside and grow something.

Uh...nothing? Is this a trick question or something?

Plant something is it.

Plant things in it.

It would depend on which way I chose to cut it in half...wouldn't it?

I'd put a cushion on it and use it for a cool little rocking chair.

foot stool, chair, table, planter, a 'bin' to put stuff in, like magazines, or blankets, or stuff................

fill it with earth and plant things

I would plant flowers in it.

Probably burn it in our next camp fire. I have a sap bucket made the same way and I keep that preciously because it's complete.

Silly me! I imagined it cut lengthwise and imagined no use for it because it would fall apart!

If it's depending on compression to stay together and it's in half, it's now in way too many pieces for me to choose to deal with. I'd find the nearest dumpster.

I have a few of them around. I have some plants\flowers in a couple of them and nothing in the others (yet). One of these days.

I like the table idea, that gives me something to do now. I'll go cut me a table top.

you were at least thinking in a legit manner (kind of)

I would put parrot toys in it.

Scrape the bottom of it in order to answer this question.

Hopefully you won't scrape too much, otherwise you won't have much of a 'barrel' left

I know most people have said "Fill it with soil and put some plants in it", or something along those lines, but for me that would be like giving a vegetarian of barrel full of sirloin steaks and giblets. I'm the least green-fingered person I know, and I suppose my serious non-jokey answer to your question would be, "I'd give to somebody who could make use of it".

I'm somewhat the same way, the only thing that I've 'successfully' grown was some sort of vine that broke off the main plant, so I managed for that to succeed, however since then, nada, zilch. I think as a table it would be practical, besides, it'd also be a nice conversational piece, assuming I ever had visitors .

Throw it away. I have no use for such clutter.

If YOU are looking for something to do with it however, you might think of planting some flowers in it or something...

hehehehe.......
i like that idea as well...wish i had a barrel though!

probably turn it into planters...

warts or peanuts?

hmm... let me think about that one...

potted plants(outside or inside)? toy box? store stuff?

These are the best for growing tomatoes. My dad has these and a raised bed. The ground in our area is mostly clay.

Somebody gave me mine, you can tell someone had things planted in them already, they were free though.

Throw it away

awesome
free stuff rocks!!!!!!!!

...explain, Mr. Spock? Legit?

explain the word legit?

put shoes in one and dirty washing in the other

I just didn't understand what you meant by "thinking in a legit manner (kind of)".... Please explain Mr. Spock! We are talking about cutting a barrel, aren't we? Please expand...


Hmmm.... Or did you just mean; "Well even if your thoughts were screwed up, you still were thinking."

Never mind, I think I just answered myself... legitimately!!

I don't know, probably give it away.

store my garden hose in it