[johnny5]

The office next to ours have recently re-located and they have left 12 water fountain bottles (think they are 50litres) would these be any good to use with the bottom removed as cloches in the garden ?

[noshed]

If you saw the bottoms off they make great cloches and the bottoms are good pot saucers for big pots.

[eli]

yeah, i use these for this purpose too :-) they're brilliant!
people leave them out for the bins where i live.
also, lots of different kinds of bottles too, which i nab and use for cloches.

[savbo]

they usually have a deposit on them so it's lucky to find some!

[digalotty]

i have one that i take fresh water to the plot so i have clean water for tea and washing my hands as our water is in a large tank that is filled by a cistern valve ,   i wish i could get my hands on more of them so i could use them as clotches

[starry]

Hi I have 4 of these that I want to use but what do you cut them with I tried an ordinary saw but no joy and a Stanley knife and that was useless?? 

[240173paul]

Jigsaw ??

[Growster...]

Hi I have 4 of these that I want to use but what do you cut them with I tried an ordinary saw but no joy and a Stanley knife and that was useless?? 

Starry, you could use a hacksaw, but you need to make a hole in the thing first of course. Why not use an old kitchen knife clouted with something heavy like a shoe?

If you don't have a proper hack saw, can you use just a hacksaw blade, and wrap some material round one end to make a handle? You might even get away with using a bread knife!

If you don't want to bang a hole in it, a hacksaw can sometimes be used by cutting down the bottle from the top, and where you want to start the horizontal cutting, i.e. the eventual bottom of the cloche, just turn the blade slightly with each cut stroke. It should work!