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Show us your Farm crate record storage

NJguy

NJguy

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In another thread someone brought up apple orchard crates for record storage and that reminded me that i had at least one in my basement. I dug it out and filled them with some overrflow records i have.

I like it that one of them had the label still on the side. Lets see yours. Do you guys know if apple orchards/farms and such give these away?

Here is mine, from Gun Smoke Cantaloupes

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On the right side of this picture you'll see 1 of my 3 apple crates. This is the last crate of records I salvaged from a 2009 house fire. Pre-cleaning: some soot damage on the bindings is still evident:

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Used a couple of cantaloupe crates for years. Still have them, but had to go with an Expedit when the collection grew too big. Now that you mention the crates I'll have to dig them out to house some of the overflow. :yes:
 
I realize this is an old thread but I just finished a project involving fruit and vegetable crates so I thought I'd revive the thread.

Several months ago I went to a barn sale that had a bunch of vegetable crates. I had one fruit crate that's full and wanted some more. I thought the vegetable crates would have the same dimensions as fruit crates but they don't. They're a bit taller in height, slightly shorter in length, and quite a bit wider (18 inches vs. 13 inches). However, some of the vegetable crates had nice original graphics so I bought four of them figuring it would be simple to resize them. As usual, I was wrong. I soon discovered that I basically needed to deconstruct the crates completely which wasn't (of course) as easy as expected. The side and bottom slats are pretty thin and brittle so it was difficult to deconstruct without splitting or pulling the nail heads through the slats. In the end I had enough solid material to make three resized crates from the four originals. Despite all the hassle, it worked out well. Since I had taken them all apart when I reassembled I used wood glue on all joints along with nails so they're very strong. The bottom crate was finished raw using satin polyurethane varnish after deconstruct/reconstruct. The middle two were sanded before varnishing. The top crate is the one fruit crate they had at the barn sale, just cleaned up and varnished over the raw wood. I also have a nice colorful spare panel from the fourth vegetable crate.

I have found that there are a lot of printable vintage labels available so I'm thinking of making up more panels so I can swap them in and out and not destroy the originals. I also discovered they look pretty cool without the front panel with an album showing through. I might make a plexiglass or lexan sleeve to hold and display an album without exposing it to damage.


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Thanks,
Joe
 
Joe nardy said:
Actually, it's sitting on top of a gas grill. I can see the 'head' thing now.
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Yea i realized it after, but in the moment had me cracking up! :)

Back to the topic at hand, the crates. I'd love to get my hands on a crate like that. I live inner city so we dont see them show up to often.

My storage situation is getting out of hand, I have a rack designed for vinyl, but its to big for my current living room. So im using an end table from World Market that seems to work ok, but i know after a year or so the cheap wood is going to start to sag.
 
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