Using bucket as work platform.

[Soundguy]

Buckets.. great impromptu seats.... and I have been pressed into standing on a bucket a time or two.. for lack of -anythin- better.

Soundguy

 

[MikeD74T]

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but now who has ever used an upside-down 5gal plastic bucket as a "work platform"??!?

I once stepped up onto a right side up bucket 1/2 full of drywall compound. Had my slippers on, went completely thru the cover. Because the petals pointed down it hurt like stink trying to pull my foot out. Did you ever try to take the cover off a bucket a legs length away. It wasn't fun, I don't stand on bucket covers anymore, however I apparently didn't learn too much cause I still stand on bucket bottoms - very carefully. MikeD74T

 

[AlanB]

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but now who has ever used an upside-down 5gal plastic bucket as a "work platform"??!?

I got to think the question would be,,

Who has not?

 

[roxynoodle]

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but now who has ever used an upside-down 5gal plastic bucket as a "work platform"??!?

Do it all the time! Easier than getting out a ladder for 1.5 feet of extra height. For that matter we can all think of people who have had ladder accidents, yet I use them. Worst one was a coworker who died after falling off one in the Ag classroom. He was an amazing teacher and we still miss him. I think of him everytime I'm doing ladder work. I put siding on my rather tall old farmhouse last summer and pretty much everyone I knew was convinced I'd have a ladder accident. I did not, but at the end was using my neighbor's bucket truck to get on siding for a top peak that was over a lower peak that jutted out. No safe way to use a ladder for it, the angle would have been too small (like 45 degrees). Well, I was cutting a piece of siding and he moved the bucket and smacked my head right into the overhang. My brand new fascia now has a dent the size of my head in it. I had a concussion and was sick for like 2 weeks. Be careful with bucket trucks, too.

 

[N80]

I've done the upside down 5 gallon bucket thing and I'll bet you my tractor that more people are seriously injured doing that than standing on a raised loader bucket. (Somebody please tell me where the smileys are!)

 

[Soundguy]

Have to go advanced to get the smilies.

On the bucket deal.. one thing works a bit to make them safer. I cut a round-ish piech of 3/4 plywood slightly larger than the bottom of the 5 gallon step laders that most of us have. This ends up working -real- well.

Soundguy

 

[tractorsanmore]

n80 , boom / bucket trucks have holding valves attached to the ( boom ) cylinders to prevent this . Most , if not all tractors with loaders , backhoes, etc do not .

 

[N80]

Have to go advanced to get the smilies.
Soundguy

 

[3RRL]

OK, so the way this thread is going the next question is...
Has anybody used the 5 gallon plastic bucket while inside the fel bucket? That sounds interesting...
Personally, I would never use a 5 gallon bucket as a step stool...I'm too uncoordinated. I have a 2 step stool for that stuff.

 

[SkyPup]

The most dangerous problem with the dang 5 gallon pail is setting it down with the right side up for stepping onto.

With only a 50:50 chance of the bucket being upside to set up on it and accidentally not into it, tripping, and falling over.....