I just watched your wick watering system. I'm trying to get my wife to listen to me, about how she can get more vegetables out of a bucket planting system. We don't have a lot of room to plant a garden. She is thinking of planting it in shaded areas. I think she will go for this as it means less weeding (we are infested with bind weed), and less watering. This is the absolute best. Thanks.
You can buy “Gall Mites”, they are from the Mediterranean and specifically only eat wind weed, they are minuscule and take a couple years to infect the weed. It’s even suggested to mow over where you placed them to disperse.
This video was a a lifesaver thank you we had a new guy start in the fish department and he kept stacking the buckets without draining all the water out and we have like 35 buckets that are stuck together you just saved the store budget
Great video! The pre-planning ideas seem so obvious......after you hear them for the 1st time. Thanks. One of the commenters said to put an empty aluminum can in the 1st bucket. That's one of the best excuses for drinking a beer I've heard of.
I toss an aluminum can in each bucket. Or a bottle. Something to keep each bucket from bottoming out. Also, do not stack buckets. Nest them and lay them on their side.
If you have a can of WD-40 with a SMART NOZZLE, you can stack buckets as high as you want and spray some WD-40 on ANY bucket you want to dislodge from the stack, you're welcome 😊
NOW this is one great and in depth video of a subject matter that affects a large number of us HANDYMEN. Look forward to see more great videos Sir. Have yourself a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Peace vf
As a remodeler, I used 5 gal. buckets daily... We cut 2" shims from cedar shakes, use 2, one on each side... Your buckets will never stick again. Look at 9:40... IT WORKS!
Oh my gosh that was gonna be my comment. Then I was gonna say something about how I wanted to use my bucket but I had soapy water in it now I have to dry it out or my buckets deformed now that I’ve use the torch on it or when I was drilling I accidentally drilled a hole in my bucket, or all the trouble I went to to get the out the compressor. Or how I got fired from my job because I couldn’t figure out how to take apart some buckets I would say the handle going down and it may be a design on purpose.
Was that a complaint or shock that there was so many solutions available that we didn’t know about❗️ especially for those of us who thought we were good at stepping out of the box for solutions…. I can now free some buckets, and here I thought it was due to my age card, hehe
Was that a complaint or shock that there was so many solutions available that we didn’t know about❗️ especially for those of us who thought we were good at stepping out of the box for solutions…. I can now free some buckets, and here I thought it was due to my age card, hehe
In the thousands of years that stuck buckets have been a problem you’d think manufacturers would have engineered away the handle problem. Good lord. Or maybe the stuck bucket problem altogether. Further, I think that this ignoring small problems that cause frustration and waste time are a function of some deficit in human progress. It’s part of the “done is good enough culture”
I liked your video, much, I live in a city and harvest rainwater, so I look around for paint buckets (usually mostly) in this season thrown away. If feasible, I clean them of any paint with a steel mesh scrubber and now I have 6 buckets and many pet 5 -6 liter bottles also thrown away. Not to mention a 120 liter barrel, found of course. I only invest in funnels. A suggestion on ways to separate buckets, (though good point on separating them by type/brand), is (I tried one and it worked) I put a round consumed cheese for spreading container, with no lid, upside down, on the bottom in the bucket, and neighbor gave me some as well, so I stacked many, no problem. Another idea is just leave them be heated by the star, for months, forget about them, then when you kind of remember having done it earlier, you'll find them a brittle plastic ready to be thrown away, my case on my countryside plot out of town.
If you're in a workshop, factory, garage, or somewhere there's compressed air, just open a small gap where the buckets join with a prybar or screwdriver, and jab the air nozzle in. Pops right out.
This is an excellent video with lots of ideas for avoiding this problem! Thank you for taking the time to educate! 🙂 p.s. The bonsais behind you are gorgeous...
I got an idea for you instead of wasting coffee hold the two buckets up to your muffler on your car and just slowly turn the buckets from the exhaust system and problem solved. Thanks for your video.
We used to take a piece of pallet plastic banding about a foot long, fold it in half and place it over the lower bucket rim BEFORE stacking the next one over it.
They could re-design the buckets with: (1) a vertical ridge along the side from top to bottom; or (2) a downward-extended lip at the top that stops the bucket from nesting tightly inside another bucket; or (3) a perforated ridge around the bottom, which allows the nested buckets to stick together but also allows the flow of air when pulling them apart.
I don’t know if I just wasn’t paying attention but I didn’t see the hammer to the edge of the second bucket tap tap tap that seems to work really well for me. By the way, try a bucket that has been used for moving concrete that wasn’t cleaned properly, that is the tough one! The inside of the bucket is like sandpaper, and actually grabs the outside of the. Second bucket. And the other is I just use my fingertips to pry the two apart while finger and thumb, in a somewhat of a snapping your fingers motion push up with your thumb and down with your finger and done!
Well I’ll be damed.!! The hot water worked on two buckets that I could not get apart for nothing.! SOB!! Good stuff bra!! lol Really got to give you the 👍!!
I used dish soap, a trickle of water, and a wooden slat of appropriate size to place in the gap between buckets and twist. If the buckets are bottomed out and there is no gap, use flat head screwdrivers or chisels to twist. The key to this method is keep walking around the rim to achieve inperceptable progress until it lets go.
I have a project you might can help me with. For about a decade I have been saving big soda pop bottles. If you cut the bottoms off about 4 inches up the make great outdoor dog water dishes. Or great seedling pots if you poke a hole in them for drainage. Little containers for screws, nuts and many other objects. A favorite for years is storing tiny pieces of steel, rusty nails and often keeping water in them so i can pour that rusty water on my flowering plants and my garden vegetable plants. However, I found a better use last summer when i constructed my first hanging bottle veggie stand. I cut off the ends, sliced a big V out, overlapped the sides and staples them together. Now it was a skiny bottle like I'd rather have to hang. BUT was a bit flimsy. Then I thought back to when I used drive OTR. Picking up bottles to take to the bottling plant is really light. I flew like the wind from SLC to Vegas. Not so much on my 2nd trip. Those were plugs. The ones before they are heated to create the thin walled bottle to be filled with soda pop. Hey, methinks if they heat them up to expand them, I should be able to heat them to shrink them. Yeah, that didn't go so well. Then I made a paper mache plug to stick in the middle. Better . . . Somewhat Hair dryer to weak . . . Heat gun too hot. I have made several hanging gardens and given them away, but they have had to supply their own bottles. I think of my handy little project as a way to get more people back into feeding themselves. I have looked all over this area for someone to get on my band wagon. To come up with a better shrinking solution. And someone to video my whole process and for them to post it on YT. Help, please or not 💕
You will go to the store and buy new buckets before you will get my COFFEE. Was a great vid though, After I got my breathing under control after the coffee idea I did give you a like LOL
Thank you for this Video. I could have used it last year around Christmas time, when I found some buckets on the side of the road stuck together, really tight, and since o was going to use them for planting anyway, I drilled holes in the bottom bucket and was able to pull one of them off. The other two i waited for the Sun to do its job and was barely able to pull the last two buckets apart. Did i wait long enough, was the gap hot enough on the inside of the bucket?
I really like that zip tie idea. Most Dollar Stores in the US or a Dollarama in Canada sell 'really' cheap zip ties. Just buy a few bags of the smallest ones and only use them on your buckets when you acquire a new one. Even a screwdriver and a large enough screw should make the hole big enough to work. Maybe then just buy a bag/box of the screws from the same store you bought the zip ties from. That way, you are NOT about to use those crappy screws for real work, and just put one of those screws into each bag of zip ties. Once the trick of those zip ties hit me, all these other ideas just popped into my head as I was typing.
Fold 5”-8” piece of cardboard into sections. Stand on end in bottom of bucket, stacking each w/piece of cardboard. Better to store upside down, to keep bugs and debris out.
I use the chains of a trailer, for safety chaining the trailer to the back of the truck… I clip that chains on the bucket handle, and then just pull on the other bucket and it seems to work pretty good.
Problem is when you stack different buckets together. I try to stack same brand of buckets into each other. They are designed to be stacked and shipped this way so they will not stick.
Most everybody has sticks / small branches to place between the buckets. Also, stones / rocks or most any other items can be placed between buckets before storage. Let your scraps / junk items work for you and let your imagination run wild.
Generally good advice, but the problem is more due to the wedging action than the vacuum. That is why some kind of lubricant between the buckets works. Pouring hot water in the inner bucket will probably make it more stuck because the inner bucket will expand more than the outer bucket and get wedged more tightly. Cold water works better.
Dude, you had my undivided attention, up until the using coffee method! Bet you light up the internet with this inflammatory statement! Nice presentation and I'll live through the coffee instance and try not to kick the bucket. Thank you.
If a series of stuck buckets, lay the stack on its side, step on the open end. The bending of the plastic breaks the vacuum of the stuck bucket and you can pull them apart.
That is some great ideas BUT I have another problem. I have two round wire office trash cans stuck together . Just waiting for my son to come over an hold one while I pull on the other 🤷♂️🤷♂️. Thanks
or . . . try the easy "hack" if you will. Put a couple inches of painters tape where you were putting paint sticks etc - it stays put and lets air in so easy to pull apart :-)
I just toss a small stone or something, stick, piece off scrap wood into the bottom of each bucket. As long as the bucket cannot go deep enough inside the other bucket to make the seal they always pull right apart with no resistance at all.
Two ways works for me. Drill a small hole on the bottom then compressed air. Second method small blower nozzle compressed air into the side without drilling. Old buckets not worth saving, it will crack and disintegrate.
I was a commercial scallop fisherman for 25 years and never had a problem separating bucks. Scallops were cleaned and transported in bucks onboard. He briefly mentioned the correct way, the way that uses no tools, no hot water, and takes only 5 seconds. Everything else he said is foolish. Stand on the handle and pull the other bucket up at right angles to the handle that you are standing on. If the bucket has no handle, get a friend to pull with you at right angles to the bucket you are pulling. Separating is effortless.
Hmmm... If you can do that with two quarters, then it seems like you could use two house keys and have more leverage as long as you don't bend them and make them unusable as keys. Of course, there are other possibilities such as two screwdrivers, but if you are toolless and only relying on what you have in your pockets, quarters or keys would be the most probable.
---- short bit of copper wire - bend it so it slips over the lip of the bucket - single piece per bucket - the ground wire from romex is perfect - nary a stuck bucket
Well you don't happen to have quarters and during your Workshop washers would do the same thing that they're narrowing up on the edge you can take two of them use your grinder make bench grinder to shape them a little bit so they're tapered just right and put them in there and pry the buckets up that way and you can use a string to tie the two washers modified to the bucket so all you have to do is use them for the handle
This video should be on everyone’s bucket list…
😂 I wish it was…
We're not worthy
I teach a drum class in middle school that uses buckets. This video is a life saver.
Now I can cross that off my bucket list.
😂also “kicking the buckets” with steel toe 🥾
And no pun intended, right😂
@@juliemarr65 ;oP
What about plant pots with holes in the bottom?
I just watched your wick watering system. I'm trying to get my wife to listen to me, about how she can get more vegetables out of a bucket planting system. We don't have a lot of room to plant a garden. She is thinking of planting it in shaded areas. I think she will go for this as it means less weeding (we are infested with bind weed), and less watering. This is the absolute best. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed. Also have videos about bucket wicking systems. Cheers
Remember to register it.
You can buy “Gall Mites”, they are from the Mediterranean and specifically only eat wind weed, they are minuscule and take a couple years to infect the weed. It’s even suggested to mow over where you placed them to disperse.
Brother, aint Nobody giving up there days coffee for a damn bucket!!
I never asked….I just took the thermos and poured it on my bucket. 😂
@@ZenGardenOasis. - Take somebody's coffee thermos on any job I've ever worked and you'd better be able to run real fast.
Some people use buckets everyday so stuck buckets are to annoying
@@karenv5103 I'm actually one of those people!
Ya Painters like mentioned know plenty about stuck buckets .
And I think the point that we know was glossed over .
There will be more buckets !!!
This video was a a lifesaver thank you we had a new guy start in the fish department and he kept stacking the buckets without draining all the water out and we have like 35 buckets that are stuck together you just saved the store budget
Great video! The pre-planning ideas seem so obvious......after you hear them for the 1st time. Thanks.
One of the commenters said to put an empty aluminum can in the 1st bucket. That's one of the best excuses for drinking a beer I've heard of.
Great point!
I toss an aluminum can in each bucket. Or a bottle. Something to keep each bucket from bottoming out.
Also, do not stack buckets.
Nest them and lay them on their side.
If you have a can of WD-40 with a SMART NOZZLE, you can stack buckets as high as you want and spray some WD-40 on ANY bucket you want to dislodge from the stack, you're welcome 😊
NOW this is one great and in depth video of a subject matter that affects a large number of us HANDYMEN. Look forward to see more great videos Sir.
Have yourself a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Peace vf
Thank you Sir too. vf
As a remodeler, I used 5 gal. buckets daily... We cut 2" shims from cedar shakes, use 2, one on each side... Your buckets will never stick again. Look at 9:40... IT WORKS!
I can’t believe he talked for 13 minutes about stuck buckets.
I heard someone on the radio go on about ferret handling for two days,
Oh my gosh that was gonna be my comment. Then I was gonna say something about how I wanted to use my bucket but I had soapy water in it now I have to dry it out or my buckets deformed now that I’ve use the torch on it or when I was drilling I accidentally drilled a hole in my bucket, or all the trouble I went to to get the out the compressor. Or how I got fired from my job because I couldn’t figure out how to take apart some buckets I would say the handle going down and it may be a design on purpose.
Lol...and I watched the whole thing!
We all watched the whole thing.
Not me, thanks for the heads up
I can’t believe that the person who watched for 13 minutes had the nerve to complain!
Human nature. 😂
I’m sure not in that category! I’m out in less than a minute! 😊
😂
Was that a complaint or shock that there was so many solutions available that we didn’t know about❗️ especially for those of us who thought we were good at stepping out of the box for solutions…. I can now free some buckets, and here I thought it was due to my age card, hehe
Was that a complaint or shock that there was so many solutions available that we didn’t know about❗️ especially for those of us who thought we were good at stepping out of the box for solutions…. I can now free some buckets, and here I thought it was due to my age card, hehe
In the thousands of years that stuck buckets have been a problem you’d think manufacturers would have engineered away the handle problem. Good lord. Or maybe the stuck bucket problem altogether.
Further, I think that this ignoring small problems that cause frustration and waste time are a function of some deficit in human progress. It’s part of the “done is good enough culture”
I can't stop looking at all the beautiful bonsi trees, he should tell us how he did those!
I’ve been thinking of talking more about bonsai ….but most people aren’t into them. It’s a fun hobby. 😀
I liked your video, much, I live in a city and harvest rainwater, so I look around for paint buckets (usually mostly) in this season thrown away. If feasible, I clean them of any paint with a steel mesh scrubber and now I have 6 buckets and many pet 5 -6 liter bottles also thrown away. Not to mention a 120 liter barrel, found of course. I only invest in funnels.
A suggestion on ways to separate buckets, (though good point on separating them by type/brand), is (I tried one and it worked) I put a round consumed cheese for spreading container, with no lid, upside down, on the bottom in the bucket, and neighbor gave me some as well, so I stacked many, no problem.
Another idea is just leave them be heated by the star, for months, forget about them, then when you kind of remember having done it earlier, you'll find them a brittle plastic ready to be thrown away, my case on my countryside plot out of town.
Yep, wood shims. Only took one bucket stuck to convince me. Closepins also good. Thanks!
Glad to help
If you're in a workshop, factory, garage, or somewhere there's compressed air, just open a small gap where the buckets join with a prybar or screwdriver, and jab the air nozzle in. Pops right out.
Amazing. This is why we have an internet. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is an excellent video with lots of ideas for avoiding this problem! Thank you for taking the time to educate! 🙂
p.s. The bonsais behind you are gorgeous...
Thank you!...I put 2 buckets together when I was in a hurry...my husband was not happy. While he was out of town, I got them apart 🎉
Sitting on them is a great idea, thanks.
My favorite techniques involve either two vehicles with tow straps or, my #1, starter fluid and the butane torch! 😅
Not MY coffee!
I got an idea for you instead of wasting coffee hold the two buckets up to your muffler on your car and just slowly turn the buckets from the exhaust system and problem solved. Thanks for your video.
Thanks for the video👍! The hot water is definitely #1.
We used to take a piece of pallet plastic banding about a foot long, fold it in half and place it over the lower bucket rim BEFORE stacking the next one over it.
They could re-design the buckets with:
(1) a vertical ridge along the side from top to bottom; or
(2) a downward-extended lip at the top that stops the bucket from nesting tightly inside another bucket; or
(3) a perforated ridge around the bottom, which allows the nested buckets to stick together but also allows the flow of air when pulling them apart.
Your bonsai are beautiful!
Thank you!
AMEN!!!
Thanks, stopping on the handle worked nicely
Scrap cardboard shims work fine too.
Good idea!
Yet another use for the mighty cedar shim. Thanks.
Thank! I’d give this multiple thumbs up it I could!
Wow, thanks!
The brute force using the handle as a foot grab solution worked.
I don’t know if I just wasn’t paying attention but I didn’t see the hammer to the edge of the second bucket tap tap tap that seems to work really well for me. By the way, try a bucket that has been used for moving concrete that wasn’t cleaned properly, that is the tough one! The inside of the bucket is like sandpaper, and actually grabs the outside of the. Second bucket. And the other is I just use my fingertips to pry the two apart while finger and thumb, in a somewhat of a snapping your fingers motion push up with your thumb and down with your finger and done!
Thanks a million. I have 3 mineral tubs stuck together, and I am going to try your ideas until I get them apart!!! A friend found your video for me.
Sounds great!
Omg! Thanks : I did and worked !
Well I’ll be damed.!! The hot water worked on two buckets that I could not get apart for nothing.! SOB!! Good stuff bra!! lol Really got to give you the 👍!!
Crumbled newspaper ( two newspapers per bucket) has always worked for me. Stack them as many you wish. Never a stuck bucket.
I used dish soap, a trickle of water, and a wooden slat of appropriate size to place in the gap between buckets and twist. If the buckets are bottomed out and there is no gap, use flat head screwdrivers or chisels to twist. The key to this method is keep walking around the rim to achieve inperceptable progress until it lets go.
Forget the buckets, wow nice plants. Thats sine really good looking Bonsi trees you have.
So nice of you
One thing you never want to do is "kick the bucket"... LOL
😂long ago I got so angry at the stuck buckets, I kicked them as hard as I could out of frustration. 😂
Air hose works very good as well.
Yes it does!
Damn,I got locked up and watched this whole video. Thanks for the ideas.
Glad you enjoyed!
I throw a two inch small block of wood at the bottom of the first bucket, so the upper bucket never seals against the first one .
Great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
I have a project you might can help me with. For about a decade I have been saving big soda pop bottles. If you cut the bottoms off about 4 inches up the make great outdoor dog water dishes. Or great seedling pots if you poke a hole in them for drainage. Little containers for screws, nuts and many other objects. A favorite for years is storing tiny pieces of steel, rusty nails and often keeping water in them so i can pour that rusty water on my flowering plants and my garden vegetable plants.
However,
I found a better use last summer when i constructed my first hanging bottle veggie stand. I cut off the ends, sliced a big V out, overlapped the sides and staples them together. Now it was a skiny bottle like I'd rather have to hang.
BUT
was a bit flimsy.
Then I thought back to when I used drive OTR. Picking up bottles to take to the bottling plant is really light. I flew like the wind from SLC to Vegas. Not so much on my 2nd trip. Those were plugs. The ones before they are heated to create the thin walled bottle to be filled with soda pop.
Hey, methinks if they heat them up to expand them, I should be able to heat them to shrink them.
Yeah, that didn't go so well. Then I made a paper mache plug to stick in the middle. Better . . . Somewhat
Hair dryer to weak . . . Heat gun too hot.
I have made several hanging gardens and given them away, but they have had to supply their own bottles.
I think of my handy little project as a way to get more people back into feeding themselves. I have looked all over this area for someone to get on my band wagon. To come up with a better shrinking solution. And someone to video my whole process and for them to post it on YT.
Help, please
or not 💕
My idea is for you to start a UA-cam channel. A fun hobby and you can create a community of people who you can interact with.
You will go to the store and buy new buckets before you will get my COFFEE. Was a great vid though, After I got my breathing under control after the coffee idea I did give you a like LOL
Coffee addiction here too. 😂
@@ZenGardenOasis.…..the guy was having withdrawals just from imagining that!
I use a blow gun on the air hose and blow at the seem. Works quick.
Me too,,,,been using this idea for 20 years !
Thank you! 👍👍👍😀🌱
Thank you for this Video. I could have used it last year around Christmas time, when I found some buckets on the side of the road stuck together, really tight, and since o was going to use them for planting anyway, I drilled holes in the bottom bucket and was able to pull one of them off.
The other two i waited for the Sun to do its job and was barely able to pull the last two buckets apart.
Did i wait long enough, was the gap hot enough on the inside of the bucket?
I really like that zip tie idea.
Most Dollar Stores in the US or a Dollarama in Canada sell 'really' cheap zip ties.
Just buy a few bags of the smallest ones and only use them on your buckets when you acquire a new one.
Even a screwdriver and a large enough screw should make the hole big enough to work.
Maybe then just buy a bag/box of the screws from the same store you bought the zip ties from.
That way, you are NOT about to use those crappy screws for real work, and just put one of those screws into each bag of zip ties.
Once the trick of those zip ties hit me, all these other ideas just popped into my head as I was typing.
I needed this info over summer..my buckets were stuck and ende up breaking a hole in one. Nebraska
They can be tough to separate. Thanks for your input…
I tried the hot water trick, but the manager at the home improvement store got really upset with me and asked me to leave. 😂
Just go back in disguise. 😂
@@ZenGardenOasis. 😂wearing those big glasses and fake nose. Act like I’ve never been there before.
Fold 5”-8” piece of cardboard into sections. Stand on end in bottom of bucket, stacking each w/piece of cardboard. Better to store upside down, to keep bugs and debris out.
Nice bonsais.
Thanks your too kind….
I had a bunch of cattle mineral tubs stuck. The tire guy blew compressed air into the lip and the tub just elevated right up!
A 1/4 stick always works for me.
If you own a air compressor blow air around rim works
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I use the chains of a trailer, for safety chaining the trailer to the back of the truck… I clip that chains on the bucket handle, and then just pull on the other bucket and it seems to work pretty good.
Put the handle of the upper bucket in the lower bucket 🪣 problem solved.
Mike Rowe did 5 minutes about a pencil when he auditioned for QVC.
Hot water in bucket, 10 minutes- check. Gorgeous bonsai ❤
So nice of you
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
Hello new friend here🔔👍
Hello 👋
Good video! I watched it and I don't even have buckets.
Thanks that made me laugh. 😂
great video! very helpfull
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks 👍👍👍
Welcome 👍
Problem is when you stack different buckets together. I try to stack same brand of buckets into each other. They are designed to be stacked and shipped this way so they will not stick.
Most everybody has sticks / small branches to place between the buckets. Also, stones / rocks or most any other items can be placed between buckets before storage. Let your scraps / junk items work for you and let your imagination run wild.
look at the great bonsai
Thank you. Cheers.
Generally good advice, but the problem is more due to the wedging action than the vacuum. That is why some kind of lubricant between the buckets works. Pouring hot water in the inner bucket will probably make it more stuck because the inner bucket will expand more than the outer bucket and get wedged more tightly. Cold water works better.
Thanks
Welcome
Dude, you had my undivided attention, up until the using coffee method! Bet you light up the internet with this inflammatory statement! Nice presentation and I'll live through the coffee instance and try not to kick the bucket. Thank you.
😂🔥
I use scrape 2 by 4s a d drop in bottom bucket
Thanks!
Not thick enough for some of my buckets.
No body will give up their coffee even cold.
Thank you!
You bet!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thank god for 2x speed and fast forward
I use it on 90% of vids. 😂
If a series of stuck buckets, lay the stack on its side, step on the open end. The bending of the plastic breaks the vacuum of the stuck bucket and you can pull them apart.
That is some great ideas BUT I have another problem. I have two round wire office trash cans stuck together . Just waiting for my son to come over an hold one while I pull on the other 🤷♂️🤷♂️. Thanks
A flathead screwdriver works every time.
WD-40 is also a good go-to
Do these methods work on stuck shopping carts?
Stuck shopping carts require quarters at Aldi
or . . . try the easy "hack" if you will. Put a couple inches of painters tape where you were putting paint sticks etc - it stays put and lets air in so easy to pull apart :-)
I just toss a small stone or something, stick, piece off scrap wood into the bottom of each bucket. As long as the bucket cannot go deep enough inside the other bucket to make the seal they always pull right apart with no resistance at all.
Two ways works for me. Drill a small hole on the bottom then compressed air. Second method small blower nozzle compressed air into the side without drilling. Old buckets not worth saving, it will crack and disintegrate.
Hey thank you...
I was a commercial scallop fisherman for 25 years and never had a problem separating bucks. Scallops were cleaned and transported in bucks onboard. He briefly mentioned the correct way, the way that uses no tools, no hot water, and takes only 5 seconds. Everything else he said is foolish. Stand on the handle and pull the other bucket up at right angles to the handle that you are standing on. If the bucket has no handle, get a friend to pull with you at right angles to the bucket you are pulling. Separating is effortless.
Before the guyz on my crew would give up
their coffee they would their
!
I pay the new guy to collect all their coffee while their in the can….😂
I really didn't need 14 ways, but thanks anyway
It would be nice if ths bucket manufacturers would just mo.d a small wedge when making the dang buckets .
Great bonsai!! Thanx for bucket hacks.
Any time!
Hmmm... If you can do that with two quarters, then it seems like you could use two house keys and have more leverage as long as you don't bend them and make them unusable as keys. Of course, there are other possibilities such as two screwdrivers, but if you are toolless and only relying on what you have in your pockets, quarters or keys would be the most probable.
Exactly….just thinking outside the box. Cheers
Better idea… don’t get them stuck in the first place by placing a small spacer such as an empty water bottle in between them.
Stick em in hot 🔥 water 💧! Air expands and the bottom 1 comes off. Now heating up the next bottom bucket 🪣! You're welcome. I love yall
Put the top bucket handle inside of the bucket below…never had one stuck doing it that way
---- short bit of copper wire - bend it so it slips over the lip of the bucket - single piece per bucket - the ground wire from romex is perfect - nary a stuck bucket
Would a screwdriver not work? Anything to break that vacuum seal.
Well you don't happen to have quarters and during your Workshop washers would do the same thing that they're narrowing up on the edge you can take two of them use your grinder make bench grinder to shape them a little bit so they're tapered just right and put them in there and pry the buckets up that way and you can use a string to tie the two washers modified to the bucket so all you have to do is use them for the handle
Excellent tip.