Let’s start off with a bit of action. This is James May from BBC’s Top Gear blasting a semi truck through a wall of 5 gallon water jugs.
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Tag Archives: Household
Kitchen Compost Pail
What’s the best kitchen compost container? You might not be shocked to hear me argue that it’s a 5 gallon bucket!
Cat Litter Box
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.
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.
Workout Equipment
We live in the era of gyms, where it’s common to make fun of people for driving ten blocks to spend an hour running in place.
Whether you get your physical activity from working out, walking to the grocery store, or running for your life from a grizzly bear – physicians agree that exercise has enormous benefit to your health.
There’s many ways to use 5 gallon buckets to maintin physical fitness. A full 5 gallon bucket weighs a burly 70 pounds or more so when rigged up right you can be use them for weight training. Some folks build indoor bench presses and squat stands using 5 gallon buckets as a base.
In the Spartan Race in Texas, contestants heave a 5 gallon bucket of gravel up a slope. This photo by Dallas professional photographer Alex Cena shows a woman concentrating intensely on not collapsing into an exhausted heap.
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