While bolting on auxiliaries to the motor today it was noted the milk crate it was sat on starting to bulge! It got me thinking about the 1001 uses for a milk crate.....




P.S. The crate in question has seen better days and has a few broken support beams

I wish they would hurry up and rate these things with a SWL. It would legitimise so many current uses of the things I imagine thereafter no milk company would ever be able to hold onto them for very long...

I used them for all my car parts through resto. They stack up pretty nicely. They were made perfect for the back of Aus Post bikes.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

I don't know what it is ....But they seem to breed and come from no where.
I have five of them and have no idea from where they came.

And some genius also made them exactly the same size as a 9kg gas cylinder so they sit perfectly in the boot

They work great for a ladder except when the shatter and the milk crate punctures your legs, they been banned on building sites for that reason.

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SPO41 Mk2 Cooper S very original
1993 R32 Nissan Skyline GTR

is there anyone that does not have at least one in there shed ?

Ouch, mental note - don't use as ladders!

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ex-NSW Police 1970 MK II Cooper S
VMCI #43

"I was just a young fellow who had bright ideas," says Geoff Milton, the 89-year-old Glenhaven man whose keen engineering skills gave us the milk crate we know, love and occasionally sit on today.


Wow, it's been such an amazing invention, I bet the milk companies hate the cost of replacing crates!

Also good for old vinyl records and cds i have quite a collection of them from me djing days easy to load in the enclosed trailer when i done it

These days they just load up a laptop with music and load some mixing software and pretend your doing something

Also ive had a few fold on the bottom when holding up a 6x4 box trailer under the a frame just sitting in the backyard empty

Perfect to stack 750ml homebrew beer bottles in storage. And perfect for gas bottle as already mentioned

Ive also seen cafes use them stacked up and used as tables!!

In extreme and rare cases they can also be used for carrying milk, or so I'm told.

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ex-NSW Police 1970 MK II Cooper S
VMCI #43

what about the bread crate can be used for parts storage on shelves ,under benches
used to work for a bakery ,we were buying 16,000 a year just to keep up with what went missing

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65 panel van Sprog
73 panel van Iggy

At the ballarat swapmeet a few years ago the police started booking people for having stolen milk crates.

With a few minutes there were mountains of crates in each isle and some lucky bugger had sold out of those big clear storage boxes

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1975 Hairy Lime/White Clubby
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