55 gal drums/barrels?

[Mr P]

[edited to add]
What are you thinking for holding your holding-tanks during panic-swerves and bouncing over a topés ('dead cop') in Mexico?

Home fabricated brackets and straps made of steel. I'm guessing taking approximately the same time, effort, and materials as fabbing the same for rectangle tanks.

 

[nikitis]

I've put some steel ones under the bus, fit nicely between the skirt and frame. A lot of metal bracing. They've only gone a few miles, haven't finished converting the bus.
Gotta paint them something less ugly eventually. And make some shields.

This picture is a bad example of what not to do. You may have enough under support (Can't really tell from the pictures, but you likely do not have enough side support to prevent them from sliding out of your supports if you get in a head on collision or come to a sudden and abrupt stop.

Please don't drive the bus like this. Add some front and back rails at minimum to prevent any possibility of these sliding out forward at a minimum.

 

[Mr P]

So, any other folks got barrels.... ?

(For the sake of discussion, mine will be mounted so that if Godzilla holds my bus aloft by the tank and proceeds to violently shake the bus, the windows will shake out and the paint will start to shake off in places just before the tank mounts fail.)

 

[Tejon7]

This picture is a bad example of what not to do. You may have enough under support (Can't really tell from the pictures, but you likely do not have enough side support to prevent them from sliding out of your supports if you get in a head on collision or come to a sudden and abrupt stop.

Please don't drive the bus like this. Add some front and back rails at minimum to prevent any possibility of these sliding out forward at a minimum.

I like that you're preaching caution, but how can you possibly tell that this is a bad example? Everything is hidden under foam. He says that they are steel drums with lots of steel bracing. Could be stout enough to lift the bus and you'd never know. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

[nikitis]

I like that you're preaching caution, but how can you possibly tell that this is a bad example? Everything is hidden under foam. He says that they are steel drums with lots of steel bracing. Could be stout enough to lift the bus and you'd never know. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

Well again I can only judge from the pictures. There's no frontal rail I can see. If he covered the rail up in foam, then that's better, but I do not see a railing.

 

[Mr P]

I'm still interested in seeing/hearing more drum/barrel examples. Anybody?

 

[bluebird90]

Do NOT use steel barrels for your tanks. use the plastic ones. For fresh water, the steel will rust and contaminate the water supply. The grey and black water will corrode. Many medium and heavy trucks use round tanks. you can find some frame mounts from them to fit.