We’ve been using these 10 gallon Rubbermaid totes as end tables for a while, but it wasn’t worth mentioning on Five Gallon Ideas until recently, when we added an important new detail.
End Table
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Competitive Sport
Do you remember cup stacking? It exploded from zero to phenomena around the same time as Pokemon cards. This is one of the fastest “Stackers” in the world. The speed is unbelievable.
Lighting
A bucket light makes an easy, durable camping lantern. That’s usually why they’re made. If you want to build a bucket light for camping, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
I use my bucket light for something completely different – photography. Good light for photography is highly dispersed, which means instead of tight and focused it’s wide and scattered. That’s why a cloudy day is better for taking photos than a sunny one.
So here’s my bucket light. It’s very easy to make, it just requires a bucket sized right to your lamp. In my case, my lamp fits best with the 3.5 gallon bucket pictured below.
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Portable Cooler
One of the first Five Gallon Inventions I ever came up with was a river cooled 5 gallon bucket cooler.
This is the Cowichan River, a world famous river tubing destination.
Bucket Wrench
If you’ve ever spent several minutes wrestling with a well sealed snap lid you may have experienced what I call “bucket fingers.”
There’s actually a trick to opening a bucket lid. Pull out on the lip rather than up. But some lids are so stubborn that even this secret pro bucket-wrangler technique isn’t enough.
Prior to using a bucket wrench, I used to get such bad bucket fingers that for a while I’d lose the feeling in my finger tips!