Another Wile E. Coyote idea

[John White]

You guys shot my first Wile E. Coyote idea down, about flushing a pet locator down the drain and finding a septic tank. ( since you shot idea down, I am not talking about tying a cat on a string and flushing it down either) :laughing: So here goes another one. I have around 50 5 gal plastic buckets laying around till I can get time to cut them up with a saw because our recycling service wont take them. I see them along the highway, in ditches and was by the landfill sometime ago and could see them everywhere. Why couldn't they be made square, with a taper so one bucket could fit inside another, like the round ones with bails on the corner and they would pour out better, but that is not the only idea of my reasoning. So here goes my idea. Our church sends a couple of men down every year to Guatemala, there they will go to the remote area and drill a water well for the villages. (I think it might be called Water of Life) any way they tell how poor they are and some live with only a tarp strung up. I think Haiti is about the same way too. If buckets were made square (maybe interlocking) then could be filled with dirt. and laid on the ground that was compacted or some type of solid footer. Then just stack them only about 6' high, like bricks or block. Then with some kind of roof, this would certainly be better than a tarp, warmer when cold and cool when hot. Would help from filling up our landfills. And help poor people. I know this would not be OSHA, EPA , Govt approved. But neither was the ark Noah built.

 

[mcfarmall]

They DO make square 5 gallon buckets and smaller (same footprint but shorter) square containers. My workplace is full of them!

 

[k0ua]

Obviously you don't have a cat. Cat Litter comes in square buckets.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Purina-T...-24-7-Performance-Cat-Litter-27-0-LB/34210692

 

[oosik]

That's what I was thinking. I have a couple white square plastic 5 gallon buckets out somewhere in one of my sheds.

 

[George2615]

I have several white square 5 gallon pails. They have a nice screw top cap with rubber seal. I use them for used oil and diesel fuel and they are stackable. Got mine from work a few years ago. They originally came with liquid soap. Rinsed and dried them then took home. Not sure why the pic is 90 deg. off. It comes up vertical on my laptop.

 

[RSKY]

Look up "self watering bucket gardening" on YouTube.

Supposedly this was invented by a couple of teenagers on a mission trip in Brazil about 15-20 years ago. The people they were working with had no fresh vegetables and no place to put a garden. But there were 5-gallon buckets sitting everywhere. So they came up with the idea. It would not be a feasible idea in a country village but in an urban slum it would be great.

Getting all those buckets shipped down there wouldn't work either.

I grow tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers at daughters houses using this method. Grandkids have to be restricted on cherry tomato consumption or they eat so many it makes their mouths sore.

RSKY

 

[frugalangler]

They DO make square 5 gallon buckets and smaller (same footprint but shorter) square containers. My workplace is full of them!

I have an endless supply (at least as long as we have a cat) from kitty litter we buy in square buckets.

 

[JPRambo]

I think there is a problem with using plastic buckets to build a house. A lot of new plastic buckets are bio-degradable. I get buckets from the kitchen at work and they are britle and fall apart in a couple years. even if use inside the garage.

 

[oosik]

You are right JPRambo. I thought about it for a while and I had some OLD blue round five gallon buckets that came from Costco - powdered laundry soap. They lasted about five years - out in the garden - at that point they sort of turned to powder and crumbled to bits.

 

[k0ua]

You are right JPRambo. I thought about it for a while and I had some OLD blue round five gallon buckets that came from Costco - powdered laundry soap. They lasted about five years - out in the garden - at that point they sort of turned to powder and crumbled to bits.

Proof positive that UV light rays are powerful molecular bond breakers in polymers.