Repurposing a junk washing machine.

[dodge3500]

So ,today I gutted my mom's broke down washing machine. I was like,I gotta be able to do something useful with that hunk O junk!
After removing all its innards and leaving only the shell intact, I was off to tractor supply to pickup 4 pine shaving bales.
I really had to use some prying force to cram those bales into the washer,they are tight.I used some cardboard from a delivery box for now to put targets on till I get to see how it holds up this coming weekend.The bales are 8 cubic foot size and i stretched 13 gallon garbage bags over them to help control shavings lose a bit from all the shooting.
I may end up getting a piece of paneling and cutting out a slot to slide it up and down to help hold the shavings in as the bales break down from being shot.
Im into it for about 25$ before paper targets but I have tons of those.
Soo,what do you guys/gals think?

 

[honeysuckle]

Awesome!

 

[Trucker3573]

Good idea. Better than filling it with tannerite and killing yourself. See those crazy vids on YouTube a lot.

 

[beerthief]

nice work , repurposing stuff is always good .

 

[Ezana4CE]

@dodge3500
That’s creative. How will you empty all of the lead and pine shavings once youve shot it to hell? I imagine you’ll need a tractor, a forklift, a winch and pulleys, or a couple of atrong Young men to move it in order to clean it out once it gets full. Do you intend to recycle the spent pellets?

The plastic garbage bags won’t contain much more that the retail packaging that the bales are wrapped in. You‘re literally going to shred all of that plastic to bits on the front of those bales. I don’t know what you intend to shoot or from which distances. I’ve never shot into pine shavings so I don’t know how your penetration will look, but if you can stack pellets and you're shooting a moderately powered .25 or better, some will probably break through the back of the bale eventually and start ripping the plastic in the back. Besides many of those types of garbage bags are made to degrade over time anyway. They won’t hold up for long. Still a cool project.

 

[cosmic]

That is one deep target !!

 

[Rondo]

Very nice. Very large.
@Ezana4CE is correct about shredded bags.
How about lining the whole thing with a 45 gallon contractor bag with it’s bottom lined with an old floor mat or similar? That may hold things together.
Will you be pressing pine scented pellets for the holidays? I’m down for a few tins.