These clever cat boxes were sent in by Five Gallon Correspondent Simon F.
He built dozens of these for a cattery struggling to keep up with explosive growth. This DIY model is more convenient at just a third the cost.
Cat Litter Box
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Category Archives: 5 Gallon Bucket Uses
Irrigation Systems
People through history have found at least five ways to irrigate crops, livestock and themselves using 5 gallon buckets.
The Pedestrian Method
Long Term Food Storage
Fact: To eat for a full year, you need 24 standard 5 gallon buckets of food.
That number is based on Costco’s $1,500 year of food in buckets. Their price works out to about 4 dollars a day. To invoke a very tired cliche, that’s one latte a day!
Shelving
Not only do buckets belong on every shelf in your house, they are perfectly capable of being the shelves themselves!
The most well-know bucket shelving was at the Occupy Wall Street “people’s library.” The entire library was designed to be packed up at a moment’s notice if the police cracked down on protesters.
The biggest reason to use buckets for shelving are their portability.
I remember spending hours with a sledge hammer when we broke down our shelves in Denver. Those shelves were lovingly custom crafted out of heavy oak water bed boards. I think they ended up as firewood. If they had been made of something repurposable like a 5 gallon bucket, I guarantee their component parts would still be with us today.
Drumset
It’s dead easy to make a drum from a plastic bucket, in fact some folks drum professionally on plastic.
That footage is of the “Chicago Bucket Boys”, a crew of well known buskers who have even been asked to play at concerts. Continue reading