/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Do you have any idea what can I use these old wooden barrels for?

My grandparents are farmers, they have a vineyard as well as lots of other fruits so every year we make our own wine and rakia (something like home-made brandy, a traditional Serbian drink with up to 55% of alcohol). However, lately we've been using mainly plastic barrels since they are more practical. They want to scrap the old wooden ones and use them as firewood. All of these barrels were hand-made by old craftsmen using traditional techniques and tools, without any power tools. Some of them are up to 50 years old, I can't even imagine how much time and effort was invested in their making and, being a DIYer myself, the thought of them being turned to ashes kinda saddens me. The only way to save them is to find them a new practical purpose. Do you have any suggestions what I could do with them? I think that all of them were made of black locust (very hard and high-quality hardwood), the planks are about an inch thick so they're quite heavy.

The only thing I could think of is to make some sort of closets for clothes/whatever, to place them upright and cut a door on one side. Then I could add a couple of shelves inside. Small ones could be used to store drinks.

If they were placed upright, the ones in this picture would be about 60cm tall, with 50cm diameter on top and bottom. I think I have 6 of these.