What to do with 5 gallon pails?

[Lelandwelds]

Add concrete for awesome doorstop. Put feet in Saltwater bucket to remove sand for car and tent. Fill with sand for shade anchor. Extra mop bucket rinse for extra dirty floor. Vomit bucket for adventure drinking. Wear shield plate. Add dust deputy for shop vac. Direct saw dust to one spot. Diy pond filter.

 

[ambenz]

Here's a link.... http://fivegallonideas.com/

They make plenty of accessories for 5 gallon buckets...

Camping storage and seat...

Always keep one in the boat as a bail bucket.

Make a huge water filter to clean rain water for pool, Koi pond, hot tub, and gray water uses! Gravel, sand, and carbon or charcoal!

Emergency food supply storage...start your kit today! Beans, rice, Oats, flour and food that keeps well in dry storage.

Use them for a bottom watering grow bucket system!

Upside down tomato planter!

Discourage lounging harbor seals .....

Build a party pontoon boat out of buckets....and other things...https://robnoxious.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/shanty-boat-pontoons-made-of-trash/

Kiddie tree swing!

Bird house....

Shelving!

Just a few things I found while surfing...a also get free buckets from product we sell in smaller quantities.

 

[rburke65]

I often thought about the idea of cutting the bottom off, and ganging them for culvert and covering up my ditch by the road. I'm betting the township would have something to say about it though.

 

[nynexit]

Walk around your downtown area playing the “drums”! [emoji3]. Just don’t use them for sand , the handles rip right off and it’s not fun.


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[rharman]

Portable Snap-on Toilet Seat

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000B13MT/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Don't laugh at that idea... We have one of those seats in our earthquake kit.

 

[JRC3]

3mil contractor bags make great liners when there's no toilet on site. I call it "rock the thunder bucket."

 

[AMCguy]

Car wash bucket.

Car washing supplies bucket.

Used oil filter bucket.

Waste oil to the recycling depot bucket.

Ice and beer bucket.

Glenn

 

[slowTA]

Paint the outsides red and have a kegger. Use them as red solo cups for beer pong, chugging contests, and that annoying game where kids stack them into pyramids.

 

[fourjeepin]

I use them for trash cans in the shop. Also have used a couple of them to build small dry wells.

 

[dar24601]

Fishing use them as bait buckets

Toss my used dirty shop rags

Car washing buckets

Parts/tool washing soaking bucket

And makes a good emergency toilet for day at the range

 

[rsanter]

I have a lot of car parts at my shop
I use them as bins to store bolts, brackets, parts etc
They work great as I can segregate the different part types into each bucket

I also use them for storing cutoff or drops material, short lengths

I have them set up on shelves, basically using them like bins

 

[Slonaker]

I have my shop rags and car wash towels in buckets with the screw on lids from HD and Lowe’s to keep bugs and critters out.

I put one with a screw on lid on the back porch for my wife’s collection of bug sprays and weed killer. Keeps it dry and out of the sun.

I drilled holes in the bottom of one that sits by my smoker. When I prune the pecan tree the smoker sits under, the pieces get cut into manageable sizes and thrown in the bucket for use later on in the smoker.

I drilled holes in the bottom of three buckets and planted tomatoes in them last spring. The tomatoes were delicious.

As others have said, I use them for blasting media and sorting scrap metal for later use. One for square tubing and one for round.

I maintain houses for several family members. I haven’t found anything better yet for carrying tools into their houses and trash back out.

When I had to turn my water off for a leak in the supply line, I filled several buckets with water so I could flush the toilet in the house while I was doing repairs. My property line is shared with TWO schools, so peeing outside is out of the question!

Amazon and Home Depot sell a foam liner that lets you use a bucket as a cooler. I plan to make one with a screw on lid. It won’t leak if it falls over, and it will be like a stool that stores beer. Write “pee bucket” or “dirty diapers” on the outside, and no one will steal beer out of it when it’s in the back of the truck.

I plan to use a buried bucket with gravel in it as a septic tank of sorts for a “shop urinal” AKA funnel and hose on the wall.

I don’t have running water in my shop. I have a big 5 or 6 gallon blue water storage container from the camping section at Walmart that has a spigot. It sits on a table in the shop next to hand cleaner and soap. I tip it on its side with the spigot over a 5 gallon bucket and wash my hands with the water.

I have plans to set up a small electrolysis bucket for removing rust from parts using a battery charger (instructions are all over the Garage Journal and the H.A.M.B.) for whenever I finally start getting my ‘37 Chevy back on the road.

Lots more that I just can’t think of right now.

Slonaker

 

[Dutch01]

Here is my (bought) bucket storage system.

 

[MScott]

I maintain houses for several family members. I haven’t found anything better yet for carrying tools into their houses and trash back out. Slonaker

This is what a thief did when stealing some tools from my garage. Apparently dumped out my mouse bucket, then used the bucket to carry off a Dewalt sawzall, electric fencer, heat monitor and as many other tools as he could get in the bucket. I had inadvertently left the garage door unlocked and it was an opportunity he couldn't resist.

 

[Lee Celtic]

get one and fill it with sand then pour in enough old engine oil to wet it .. Place it in the garden shed and use it to store the garden spade, fork and Hoe.. a few shoves in and out before leaving them in there scrapes off the dirt and the oil stops them rusting..

Or make a storage rack..

same rack against a back fence with strawberries growing in the buckets would be cool vertical garden..

 

[hchinaski]

I always bring a 5 gallon bucket with me when I go to the junkyard. Provides a great place to sit when pulling parts off a car, or a handy step stool to get into an engine bay, and then you've got something to carry all the parts up to the cashier

 

[metschers]

I have collected about 40 or 50 5-gallon buckets over the years and have used them for many things.
I was doing some landscaping a few years ago and needed some pea gravel. I put all those buckets in my 6x8 utility trailer all spread out. I went to my local concrete company and buy their brown pea gravel cause it's real cheap. ( they use it for exposed aggregate side walks) I had them just dump it in the trailer on top of the buckets.
Long story short.....it's a lot easier to carry the "pre-filled" 5 gal buckets to where I need them, than shovel it. There's very little left in the bottom of the trailer to shovel out.
Twenty years ago wouldn't be a problem.....just say' n

Cheers

 

[Copymutt]

I get mine from a local honey retail/tourist store. No charge or 25 cents depending on whose on duty. If you leave them outdoors here in Colorado the sun with turn them so brittle they crack, break up and can inflict a serious cut. To store them stacked slip a long door shim between each otherwise you'll be fighting the vacuum to separate them.
I never run out of uses. Keep one near irrigation pumps for priming. Ran buried 2" water lines around the property for flood irrigation and fire protection. Every stub up was at ground level in the yard area. Cut a hole bottom center of the bucket, stub up the feed through it, bury the bucket to ground level and attach your quick connect. Pop on the cover when not in use. These are five years old now and only the covers occasionally need to be replaced. Or you can buy pre formed water boxes for this purpose for about $80.00 apiece.

I've got a stack of delaminates plywood that provides my kindling for the winter. About eight buckets gets us through the season. More to follow, wife's calling now.
Jim

 

[lis2323]

Love them, one of man's most important and useful inventions.

But not worth $40!

https://www.yeti.com/buckets

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[machine_punk]

They are a great source of HDPE (recyclable plastic number '2').
- chip it up, melt it down, make big chunks of raw material to build other things. Plenty of YouTube vids out there.

Kev

 

[6PTsocket]

There was also talk the other day about the HD Bucket Head shop vac.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Head-5-gal-1-75-Peak-HP-Wet-Dry-Vac-BH0100/202017218

Thanks. That's neat and CHEAP. I didn't know about that one.

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[6PTsocket]

The other night the snow was melting and there was a distinct dripping sound above the fire place. The cap on the chimney was tarred once before but it seems to be leaking again. I ran up to the attic where the flues are visible and put 5 GALLON BUCKET under the drip. The next morning there was just a few inches of water in the bucket. Now I can get the cap resealed. Sure glad I had that bucket.

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[Copymutt]

Homemade version of prior post. Just a few lengths of ABS (pvc will deteriorate from uv) and a seat. Catches fish.
Jim

 

[DadsTools]

Portable Snap-on Toilet Seat

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000B13MT/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[jdoe213]

I love to use buckets for storage. I have a lot. Each dedicated to it's own thing...metal, wire, tape, straps, twine, sand paper, the list goes on and on. With the lids they stack very nice.

 

[wasfuzz]

Portable Snap-on Toilet Seat

If it was Snap-On it would cost 40x as much as it should!

 

[1jjpop]

I cut the bottom out & cut them in half & put them around my tomato plants for a while They retain water for a while.

 

[dkmc]

Not sure about use, but a buddy of mine and his kid showed me a cool way to get rid of one......or more.

Smash up a table spoon of dry ice, and get it into an empty 2 liter soda
bottle. Quickly add in about 1 cup of warm water, screw on the top tight.
Run out of the house and put the bottle in the side yard, cover with an inverted 5 gal bucket.

Take cover and wait....about 1.5-2 minutes.

All we found was the metal handle.

 

[isb cornbinder]

My friend has a less than attractive significant other. They like to pad the bottom of the bucket, place the bucket over the significant other's head and swing on the handle. They take turns to keep it fair.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

Bolt Bucket - A simple open bucket always available helps with being a destination for those odds and ends for nuts and bolts that you don't want to dedicate separate containers/drawers/bins for. Helps prevent them from gathering on every horizontal surface.

Estate Sales. I always take one with me whenever I go to any estate sale. Easier to carry unusual dirty or grimy things you find in the garage or shop at such a sale, and the sellers usually just look over a bucket full of misc individual items and don't want to bother itemizing them- "Um, how about $10?" SOLD!

There are wheeled dollies for these buckets. That would make it a really nice roller seat while doing brake jobs or auto detailing. They are usually about $15.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077TC3VZR/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Bad Eye Bill]

There are wheeled dollies for these buckets. That would make it a really nice roller seat while doing brake jobs or auto detailing. They are usually about $15.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077TC3VZR/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Not a bad idea. I use a milk crate for that job.