We recently got a pair of complimentary Bucket Slings courtesy of the Circus Company which we are doing our best to wear out using them around the farm.
Review: The Bucket Sling
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5 Gallon Bucket
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Tell me if this makes sense. Most people buy a lot of one sort of bag (garbage bags) while simultaneously throwing out lots of another kind of bag (grocery bags.)
Despite our best efforts to take reusable cloth bags and backpacks with us to the grocery store, we still somehow manage to end up with way too many plastic grocery bags than we can possibly use.
If this sounds like a problem you might be familiar with, then this is the solution.
Chicken Posts
To produce eggs, a chicken needs food, water, and a place to nest. All these needs can be met cheaply with 5 gallon buckets. These four articles are consistently the most popular on this site.
Bonus Chicken Pictures
Below are the latest 80 members of our chicken flock. These chickens lead happy, fulfilling lives surrounded by buckets.
Flour Container
Faced with a severe shortage of kitchen space in our new Vancouver apartment, we had to find a good way to keep large portions of flour tucked away taking up minimal space.
The solution as always was to stuff everything into buckets.
I scored these 2.5 gallon buckets from the Safeway deli. They are a matching pair, both with lids. Visit our Free Buckets article for a list of places to get free buckets.
Grain Thresher
When wheat, barley, or other grains are harvested, the grain must be separated from the rest of the plant before it can be used to make flour. This separation is called threshing. In the agriculture of today, threshing is done with massive machines called combines.
As you probably have figured out by now, you can make your own ultra-cheap thresher with a 5 gallon bucket.
