5 gal buckets stuck together....

Best I've seen is to drop a chunka' tubafor in the bottom so they don't/can't bottom out...

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Brilliant. I'd have never thought of that.

Make sure they are completely dry before stacking and store them under cover so they don't get wet...Don't stack to many together either....HTH....

"Existential Angst" wrote in news:4b0d831b$0$22532$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

Could using thin shims around the top edge of the buckets work?

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Anything that keeps them from pushing into each other 'til they interfere will work; the trick is a simple way to do it. The block in the bottom is "cheap 'n cheery".

And on the other note about covered for rain -- it works as well upside down by just dropping it on the bottom of the top one in the pile before adding another....

I've seen nothing simpler certainly...

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Stick a rag in the bucket hanging over the top so the next one can't bight and allow a slight space to take a blow tip and compressor to blow the buckets apart.

How about draping a rag (microfiber cloth, terry cloth, duster, or whatever) over the side of each bucket?

That should keep the buckets from "sticking together" and each bucket would come with it's own cloth. Just add water and you're ready to tackle to any cleaning task ;-)

Why are you against full insertion?

Rags can get expensive for that many buckets. I use a 1/4" cord down the side to prevent them from going in all the way and it helps pull them apart.

Why are you against full insertion? ===============================

Jealousy, proly. I wish *I* could get stuck like that.....

Excellent suggestions!

I KNEW there had to be simple solutions!! I've been muttering over this for years! Old tennis balls or mebbe squash balls come to mind as well. I'll measure the insertion to see just what the min diameter has to be.

Old #12 wire should work as well, like rags or rope.

It's not ingenious. How about not forcing them together and stacking them horizontal instead of vertical.

Stack them in the right order. They stick when you put a bigger one into a slightly smaller one.

If you take your rubber tipped blow gun on your air compressor and just blow air between the buckets at point blank range, it'll let them apart quite nicely.

That is the method I use. I figured if I read the thread far enough someone must have done this also.

Which, of course, is fine if the buckets are in close proximity to the compressor at the time you want to get them apart...which rarely is the case it seems at least ime... :)