wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 6:15pm:

is the lid as secure as the blue barrels?

mntrehgr,

Among the good advice given here and in the other thread (like avoiding the temptation to prepare food on barrel lids) I have to add that the lid mechanism on the blue barrels, as good as it is, is the weak spot in the sense that the lever may be flipped opened by animals. But not if you place a simple cotter pin through the aligned locking holes in the steel closure ring. A simple thing but not everyone does it. Here's how it looks on my barrel.

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