5 gallon bucket projects?

Mouse Traps

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Send me 100 hundred of them and then I'll give you 100 uses!

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Our existance here is soley for the expoitation of CMG

Oh, yeah! Somewhere here on HT there was a plan for a 5 gallon bucket that was a mouse trap. Drowns them somehow... Wire and stuff.

Have the kids make "green" mousetraps and sell for $$ to the citiots.

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Maybe! Must admit I liked the garden snake idea.

Pond float would be good except we don't have a pond. I can say, though, that we'll never be buying 2 gallon garden pots again in our life. We'll use these and the cow and goats are busy producing a fresh bach of homemade Miracle Grow even as I type!


There's so many of them that we're thinking about biggish projects. Big container garden islands instead of putting in raised garden beds for sure. Functional stuff has the most appeal. I like the Lambar - and those cute goats.

Lynda

We've got one in the garage already. It was the only way to catch SuperMouse last winter. He dodged all kinds of traps for months. Finally one day he got frozen in some water in the bottom of the bucket trap. Lousy way to go, but that mouse was too crafty. Didn't need him raising smart baby mice!


Lynda

Forms for leftover cement to use to make concrete stepping stones. Be sure to use a release agent.

One can mix in a small amount of dye to make earth toned stones.

You can also apply stained glass pieces in patterns to a sticky backing and place the reverse image with backing into the bucket first, then pour in the cement mix. This will make a more decorative stepping stone and is a good use for smaller pieces of stained glass.

Hooray - that's a good way to get rid of the broken glass on the land.

i use to have a neighbor who would sit on a 5-gallon bucket and quack like a duck everytime she would see me in the yard. not what you wanted though.
I use one for the kitchen scraps before i empty them into the composter because the one we were issued is too small for me. i made a bench for the side of the pond with 2 buckets and a large board. last summer when i went fishing with my son he had one filled with his stuff and the seat lifted up . he even had a back on it. i found it very comfortable sitting by the river waiting for a bite. wish i had a picture. I wouldn't sell them though. never know when you will need a good bucket. my husband use to work on a ship and the cook always saved the food buckets for me. have them stored on one side of the barn.
I like Maura's idea about the pretty skirt. think I'll make a christmasy one. ...Georgia.

Homemade burglar deterrent! Great!

Sit on bucket. Quack. Neighbors think you are crazy and dangerous.

We could use that around here.

Don't forget to keep the reeeeeeeeeeeally pretty stepping stones for yourself and sell the others to the citiots. Broken bits of pottery or such work well too...

sitting buckets are a good idea too!

I use buckets for a mounting block for the big horse.

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Citidiots?

Haven't read everything yet; but

Is a citiot, someone who moved from the city to the country?

as DocM said: City Idiot.

One whom tries to live beyond the sidewalks but still with streetlights and pedicured toes.

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dig the hole you want the pond in.

line the edges with buckets at what will be water-level, filling with sand or dirt or cement or broken glass you want to get rid of. Use as an edge for the pond.

make sure you put several buckets - with holes drilled in the bottoms/sides - in the pond. Put your water plants in them.

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Lot of good ideas here; I know what my next saddle racks will be. Using coffee cans for bridles and halters now anyway.
The temporary fence post reminded me that the poles for pole bending can be made using bamboo. A sturdy feeder can be made by cutting them down bolting two pieces of scrap wood to the bottoms – pigs have a hard time tipping this one. The ones that leak can be used to water new plants and saplings; mostly they are used for stuff; we have buckets of chains, buckets of bolts, buckets of insulators and buckets of buckets of buckets…

Gailann – coming up with some good ones there and thanks

Would make great christmas presents..no?

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Reckon you could take TWO buckets, cut them horizontally.

THAT way you have two halves of a feed "tub" for animals. Prolly wouldn't stand up to pigs though. Be good for a salt feeder or so...

Mount on 4x4s putting the "tops" together tightly.

would make a nice, drainable feeder that could be moved easily...

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Add four legs, rope tail, rope mane, 2x4 neck/head and you have a green horse. Forget the legs, run a rope from a tree limb to the "horse" and you have a swinging ride.

Glue lids to four buckets, build platform that fits, and have floating platform. Do it to tons of buckets and have a floating pier with a fishing platform at the end.

Attach a small toilet seat to the top, add a roll of perfumed small trash bags to line the bucket and sell as a camping potty.

Take 3-4 buckets, cut ends out and glue together, end to end. Sell as agility tunnel for small dogs.

Build a castle and several small buildings in a field with the buckets. Then rent the field and "buildings" by the hour for paintball games.

Attach bands to each bucket then attach to feet and have your own version of "STOMP"...prepare to be famous.

Attach them around the entire outside of your truck. Next Halloween you can trick or treat as a mountain.

Mon

I love 5 gallon buckets. I start every summer with a good supply of buckets and by fall,they're all ruined or gone. I get right giddy when someone gives me extra buckets,lol.

I can only think of one use that may have not been mentioned. My Great Grandparents kept one nailed to the outside of their house(that is,they nailed the bottom on the bucket to the house) and kept the garden hose wrapped around it. It held alot more hose then those commercial waterhose holders you see in stores.

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kept the garden hose wrapped around it

Okay
Adding one more thing to the never ending “to-do” list.

Turn them over, Screw some old shoes to them and let the kids walk around on them like stilts.

Build a "tin man"

stack them up and buy a cheap pump and make a fountain.

Turn them over. drill some holes and mount them on the wall for your garden tools to stick the handles in