Buckets

[jansman]

I seem to think I posted this a year or three back, but heyhoe!
Forget the latest bug-out-to-the-woods-hammock or uber-tactical rucksack. Try buckets. I have lots. For carrying and storing water, crops, compost, logs,rubbish-you name it. In a shtf situation the himble bucket will be a useful tool-it is useful now!
Thoughts please?

[Plymtom]

One of many things we would ( and have now) be well advised to have plenty of thanks, no doubt about it.

[grenfell]

Yes agreed much overlooked. I had over a hundred knee high buckets with lids that formally held lime putty and used them as my " secret weapon " when we last moved house. Loaded up with a host of things that we wanted to take with us but didn't need immediately , they were stacked outside. That was 10 years ago or more and while quite a few have gone now , they degrade and become brittle in sunlight , we still use them for storage and of course as general use buckets.

[Gwiz]

Very useful item, I use these because they seem to stand up to abuse a little better.
Tesco's often sell them at silly cheap prices...
http://www.rainbowtrugs.com/acatalog/pl ... ainer.html

[jansman]

Those trugs are brilliant. I use the black builders buckets too. I also have two stainless steel dairy buckets, which were appropriated from my last job when we got the bullet with no pay!
Don't know about you lot, but we had one hell of a storm this pm. My yard flooded to 8" deep-the drain could not take it. So I used a ... Bucket. To scoop the water onto the garden.

[ForgeCorvus]

My local bakery buys apple-filling in a rectangular lidded bucket, they sell the empties off for a couple of quid each......... Guess who has about thirty notes worth of them stored

They're easier to carry full as you don't have to hold them out to the side to avoid hitting your legs

[featherstick]

Buckets and trugs are great. Definitely. We have lots, and also a few food-grade plastic 25 litre buckets with snap-on lids. They sell on ebay very cheaply and are very useful.

[DKR]

I like a different kind of bucket.



Stainless milk bucket without seams. Goes over the fire/cooker to do everything from making soup, heating wash water to clean up dishes, wash clothing, wash my nasty bad self. Working out of the back of a Power Wagon one summer in Montana, these were the most valuable bit of kit I had on hand. Metal buckets make life livable.... 3 gallon if you can find them

[featherstick]

Good point DKR. I used to milk goats into buckets like that.

[Stasher]

stainless steel are the best. We were thinking about how to get the water out of the well the other day (no mains for us) if a) the lecky went off and b) the genny failed to start.

Obviously rope (very long!) and bucket. BUT we would have to weight one side of the bucket to ensure it immersed. No doubt we could jerry rig something up. But as this system will probably be used in teotwawki I wondered if any of you had previously thought of the problem and come up with a solution?