I have posted a video on my bucket shower and we know we can store food and stuff in them. I am interested to see your creativity. What are some other uses that you have found for these buckets?
You can also take a bucket with lid place sand, gravel, and portland cement (all dry) in the bucket.
close the lid and roll the bucket (on side) hve the kids do it.
It will mix the concrete all together, way way way cheaper that the sackrette sack.
When you use it, just pour it (dry) in the hole after the fence post is put it and then sprinkle it with water. Keep it wet thur out the day. It will sit up just as hard as wet cement but you do not have the mess on tools or wheel barrel.
If you do not use it all, seal the lid and it will stay dry until ;you are ready for it again.
I keep my roadside kit in one behind my truck seat.
Jumper cables
Flares
Chains
1st aid kit
Soap to clean it out
It holds everything neat and can be used for other things like water storeage in a pinch.
I'm also doing an ammo cache. Sealed some 223 and 9mm and put it in a bucket. Sealed it with silicon and dug a 3 foot hole. I'll pull it up nest summer to see how it worked out.
I want to start storing rice, grains, beans, etc in foodgrade buckets but need advice... what's the best way to store them as long as possible.. do I get a great vacuum sealer and do a few pounds at a time (with an oxygen absorber in each bag) and toss into the bucket and seal?.. how much storage can I get out of that in years?
1 gal concret in bottom, place bamboo poles (15-20) in a circle (inverted cone) at whatever length necessary and allow to harden and drop where ever you want. Makes great fish habitat.
Praxis You could go mylar bags with a sealer, in that case you would need the oxygen absorber, but if you use a vaccum sealer and you get all the air out you shouldnt have to use any.
You can cut off the bottom 4 inchs and glue some golf balls in them and use as a gold pan saw it on youtube.
A toilet
areoponics system just add a air pump and air stone and let the plants root hang above the water
A shower heat up some water and hang is in a tree add a short piece of hose and a watering can sprinkler and a s hook to hang it up when your putting your soap on
Geocahces
Put your animal feed in so it dosent get water in it or mice,rats,bird etc
use it to make sand castles at the beach
store old motor oil
put your tools in
make a compost in it
use it as a cooler by wraping it with insulating foam around it
keep your animals warm by putting water and a fish tank heater in it
mix a big batch of iced tea and put a ball valve on the bottom to dispence it
use it for a time capsule
mix cement in it
landry machine
Homebrew brewing container
Fill it with your pennies
use it to make ice cream in add ice salt and water and your container of mlik, sugar, and flavour shake it up
I have stored baby clothes in them, works great as they stack easy and high and I can flip them all over to make them fit where I need them to be without spilling out the contents.
I get the 25 or 50 lb. bags of sugar and flour from Costco and break it down into manageable sizes into Ziplock bags and store them in the buckets I get from the bakery for free. I break the flour into 6 and a half cup size because that's how much is required to make my bread. All I have to do is open the bucket up and pull out the individual premeasured bags and close it back up. These buckets have seals. I don't use the oxygen absorbers and haven't had any problems as of yet.
I have used them to grow tomatoes, bell peppers and other things also.
Hubby uses one to keep his car washing supplies in.
When i went to iraq, one of the guys had 2 of them. He filled them up with clothes, etc, and they fit in his gi gree duffel. Than he took them out, and used them for stools where ever we went.
What a great idea! Once in your gear it would have so many alternate uses that it would definitely be worth having. The stool idea is worth it all on its own!
Hello Vector Woman: Lets see, Put spare ammo, Ready to Eat Meals can goods in 5gallon pail seal plastic Lid with window sylicone calk take rubber electrical tape to seal the lid and barry it in the ground. But don't be like a squirrel and forget where you barried it! ShadowWolf Love you Honey
they make a great and cheap chicken waterer.
drill a hole in the top, just below where the lid secures,
have a plant water trough to hold the water.
Fill the buckett, snap on the lid, turn upside down and place in the plat trough and you have a siphon fill water device.
I use three for 50 birds and 1 narly turkey.
Lasts 3 days easy
I use one as a chicken waterer. drill small hole 1" below top of bucket, fill to brim and snap the lid on then flip it upside down into a larger shallow draft container. Works well for small farm animals.
yeah bucket gardening is actually how I got turned on to this site!
I had Kentucky wonder beans a few years ago, a 5 gallon bucket is plenty big for them
Upside down over new garden plants as a freeze barrier incase that late season frost desides to show.
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