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11/08/07, 11:17 AM
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5 gallon bucket projects?
We have a chance to get a nearly endless supply of used 5 gallon buckets (no lids).
Do any of you have good project ideas (preferably with photos) that take advantage of 5 gallon plastic buckets? Most of what I find on the web are just using single buckets as handy tool carriers - but we can get enough of them to build a barn out of them if we wanted to!
So anyone out there building with buckets? Any other ideas?
Lynda
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11/08/07, 11:19 AM
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Nest boxes for the chickens.
Buy lids (screw on are best) and use for dry food storage such as wheat, sugar, beans, pasta.
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11/08/07, 12:13 PM
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Container Garden
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11/08/07, 12:15 PM
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Make a pretty skirt for the bucket(s) and use as waste basket. Turn upside down and use as children stools (can be decorated by children). Water buckets for livestock.
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11/08/07, 12:25 PM
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Attach to a tack room wall and use them for saddle racks. Store tack inside.
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11/08/07, 01:05 PM
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Set them out by your driveway and put up a sign "5 for $1" As the person said, make skirts for them and sell them as Country Waste Baskets $5.00, or stencil patterns or faces on them as waste baskets or Country Flower Pots $2.50 each. They would make cheap feed pails for livestock, I am running low on ideas.
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11/08/07, 01:17 PM
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A light! If I can find the photo I'll post it later. We saw these camping a few years ago, but haven't made ours yet.
Oops..still a newbie, can't post photo but will try to post a link.
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11/08/07, 01:20 PM
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pumpkins for the front yard
skinny snowmen
easter eggs
yard snakes
(get some paint and PLAY!!!
screw 'em on the OUTSIDE of your barn and tell everyone it's hi-tech insulation...
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11/08/07, 01:23 PM
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Humanure toilet for emergencies.
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11/08/07, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Aintlifegrand
Humanure toilet for emergencies.
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Wonderful! One for me and one for each of my 100 - 200 closest friends!
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11/08/07, 01:27 PM
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our layers just started using a 5 gallon bucket to lay eggs in... ,
you said - build a barn - or paint them black, screw them to the outside of the barn and use them for solar heating. I can always find uses for 5 gallon buckets. We use some when we butcher that are only for the butchering process, some for in the kitchen - fresh veggies and water etc.
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11/08/07, 01:29 PM
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cut 'em low and use them for feed pans or cement molds for stepping stones
Use the rings to tie on your trees.
Tell the neighbors it keeps out rodents.
Sell the rings to the Citidiots (thanks DocM, I believe) for same purpose.
Paint the rings with eyes and noses
and plant trees in them - leaving the rings to protect the bottom of your plants (by the time the UV rots them the trees will be well protected from your lawnmower's love.)
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11/08/07, 01:30 PM
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use your drill, drill holes in exciting patterns through the buckets and use them for luminaries...
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11/08/07, 01:32 PM
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Cut out the bottoms, stack them, duct-taping them together to form a column, drive a Tpost through the center and fill with cement or other.
Use for exciting construction projects.
If they are green buckets? Tell the neighbors you are a "green" farm and can now be considered organic.
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11/08/07, 01:34 PM
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I'm out....
Let me get more caffeine and I'll think some more...
OH! Cut them low (or not), fill them with sand or dirt, stack them, and make a stairway to nowhere.
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11/08/07, 01:35 PM
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Do you have a pond? My kooky husband says to build a floating dock.
You can also make and sell lambars...drill holes, get pvc tubes and nipples. They don't need a lid. But you can buy the lids, too.
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11/08/07, 01:36 PM
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hats for your children: Line with fake fur, put them on your head, and call them Hottentots...
sell to the citiots...
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11/08/07, 01:37 PM
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Green Woman
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REEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY small outdoor ponds...
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11/08/07, 01:37 PM
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Cut them in half, fill with concrete and stick an electric fence post in. Them make great temperary fences.
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11/08/07, 01:37 PM
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