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08/24/09, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by NCLee
Since you don't have hot water, what about trying ice water in the top bucket. Maybe that'll get it to shrink just enough to help twist that one out of the next one. Repeat.
With buckets with lips, I've turned the stack upside down. Plant both feet on the lip of the bottom one. Use the handle of the top one to try to twist. Some times one in the middle of the stack will give first. Sometimes the bottom one or the top one will give. Then, it's just a matter of repeating till all of them come apart. Agree about letting them sit in the sun first. The expanding air helps, as does giving the plastic a bit more flexibility to allow the vacuum to break.
Just some thoughts that may be useful.
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Yup-can't believe no one said this. But the best way is ice H2O in the top bucket & set the whole stack in hot H2O. The top on will come out then pour the H2O in the next one, etc.
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08/24/09, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by myheaven
yup poppy said it set them in the sun. The air will expand and you can just slide them apart.
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That works for me most of the time, at least in the summer.
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08/24/09, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Tricky Grama
Yup-can't believe no one said this. But the best way is ice H2O in the top bucket & set the whole stack in hot H2O. The top on will come out then pour the H2O in the next one, etc.
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I may be wrong, but I think the ice will absorb heat from the airspace in the bucket below, and make the situation worse. I'd do something to apply heat.
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08/24/09, 11:53 AM
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DDs once stacked metal cups. We put the stuck stack in hot water and put ice in the upper cup. Plastic doesn't expand or contract like my cups but I guess the air expanding will help- so I go with put it in the sun, and no ice.
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08/24/09, 12:18 PM
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Oh the memories this brought back. I had the same problem with a very large stack of pails. Took me days to get them apart. Basically I ended up putting a little WD40 into the cracks between buckets, let it sit a day. Most came loose but a few were still stuck together. Those I took a piece of cut off wire coat hanger and tapped it in between the buckets til the suction broke. Then I had to wash off all the WD40. Saved them all ........eventually.
Since then I put a feed sack between every bucket when I stack them. Good luck with yours.
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08/24/09, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Forerunner
If/when all else fails, use compressed air. Just point the nozzle right at the seam between the two buckets. The more pressure in your air tank, the better.
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Just what I was going to say. One "spray" and the top one will pop right up.
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08/24/09, 12:26 PM
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I've got a stack of three buckets that have been stuck together for over a year now. I haven't tried the WD40 or the wire hanger. The sun, the hot water, none of that worked for me.
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08/24/09, 12:49 PM
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Too many fat quarters...
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just use an air hose with a spray end on it.
I used to work in a large chicken confinement. As a floater, one of my jobs was to prep buckets for raw eggs in the breaking room.
They were always stuck together, but a shot of air and the top one would pop up from the next one down.
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08/24/09, 09:48 PM
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Hey.
Hang the top one on a hook or sturdy pipe...take a hammer and tap down on the top lip of the second bucket going around the circumferance repeatedly tapping until it starts moving downward. Maybe use some veggie oil as a lubricant(non-toxic), since you want to use them for water.
RF
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08/25/09, 06:49 AM
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I'm pleased to report that the hot water trick worked! 
Well, I also wedged a yardstick between the buckets and squirted dish soap into the opening for lubrication, then twisted them off.
The last two were REALLY stuck, so I also beat on them a bit with a sledgehammer. I figured even if it didn't work, it would make me feel better. (Correcto mundo!) Unfortunately, I beat them a little TOO much, and cracked the bottom bucket. Oops! Oh well, I can still use it for other things besides water.
Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions! 
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08/25/09, 07:32 AM
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It is so funny that we have all battled the buckets like Don Quixote.
I am still evolving.
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08/25/09, 04:14 PM
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LOL! 
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08/25/09, 06:05 PM
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Willowgirl, the water doesn't have to be hot at all; I did this yesterday in a cool wave in BR! Just drip as much water as you can over the sides, to fall into the bucket below, drip it so it runs down the sides. Took me 10 min max. Good luck! ldc
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08/25/09, 09:30 PM
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All I've ever had to do was to bend the top bucket in a bit from both sides and they pop apart.
Just gotta introduce a little air into the next bucket down to break the vacuum.
But sounds like you got them apart so it's all good.
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08/26/09, 09:48 AM
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I really want these buckets, though. I mean, I only have about 37,000 of the things already! LOLOL |
Ummmm . . . . . . . . hmmmmm . . . . . . . . just how many buckets does ONE person need, Willow?!?
This reminds me of the A&E story on Hoarders. Next week on the show we will see a lovely lady obsessed with hoarding buckets!!!!!!
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08/26/09, 08:49 PM
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ROFL!
One can never have too many buckets on a farm!
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The 5 gallon bucket uses- garden caddy, tool caddy, step stool, goat kidding supplies with a seat for those long waits, planting containers, storage, keep my heavy duty extension cords curled up in one...............oh and as a bucket too.
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