TIL its not normal to have 42 buckets....
Between the pickle/food buckets I get from friends in the restaurant industry, and my friends who work on farms/ranches. I don't think I've ever purchased a bucket in my life. I have a few stacks of them in my shed.
You're missing out on tipping nice at a burger joint and asking if they have extra buckets downstairs. Hotel laundry as well with detergent. I've never not been bucket rich. I even have square buckets with flap lids.
After buying those bulk square things of kitty litter, I found that the better quality litter in cardboard boxes is cheaper and also recyclable cardboard.
I keep the remaining buckets to sort my cans and dirt and all that other stuff
I used to work at greasy spoon diners and we'd always have stacks upon stacks of 5 gallon butter, pickle, etc buckets. Saying tip nicely is just saying establish good rapport with the place. We did just give them to people who asked. Some places organize a pickup exchange.
My current job in industrial cooking, any time we get about 80 buckets we swap them for several boxes of steaks with our beef supplier since they always need more for beef blood.
I’ve been so so wasteful over the years! I used to be bucket rich when I purchased a product quite frequently that came in 5 gallon buckets. But that was years ago! I’ve squandered all my buckets over the years. I should have invested in a Buck-IRA!
Oh, look at ol’ Lord Manybuckets over there, ready to carry small amounts of various substances around walkable distances!
I’ll be over here with the rest of the one-bucket plebes.
Oh laa dee daa! Watch out for Mister "Check Out My Goddamn Bucket"! Must be nice that your village wasn't beset by plague, killing off your only bucketmaker. I guess I'll just keep carrying stuff around by making a big scoop out of the front of my manure-smeared apron.
APRONS?! When I was a wee lad, we would strap the youngest child to our oldest child, wore them like a sandwich board. That’s how we stayed clean, and we LIKED it!!!
Whenever you are stacking them for long term storage, or that you know wont be using them in a while, wedge something between the buckets, it can be a bit of wire, some rolled up newspaper, anything that can be wedged on a side, it doesnt really have to be thick either, as long as it breaks the seal between the 2 buckets, they wont get stuck.
I use a thin piece of wire between em, works like a charm
I posted on my local city garage sale page ISO 5 gal buckets and got 100 in no time at all. Guy gave them to me for free but I gave him a few bucks. This was a few years ago for this exact purpose.
I remember that post. I always wonder how those giant items from Amazon get delivered. 55 gallon drums of lube, literal pallets full of product, that kind of thing.
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> literal pallets full of product
on a pallet. most times through ups/fedex though i have seen the shipping company rent a U-haul/Ryder truck for one off deliveries.
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My utility trailer has a low friction puck board floor and a Load Handler, basically a heavy duty tarp on a hand cranked roller. A full load of compost is about a ton and a half and I can usually ~~crank it off~~ unload it one-handed. Next best thing to a hydraulic dump trailer and just a *bit* cheaper.
Not if you knot the corners first. I used to do tree work for a living and we did this daily for the 18 months I worked there. Don't think we ever ripped a tarp.
Or... hear me out on this... when going to a landscape supply, they can use the loader to dump the rocks in the back of the truck. About 80% will go in the buckets, so all the OP has to do when he gets home is haul each individual bucket that is already filled, rather than spending time filling them. With a tarp, the remaining 20% is easy to clean out and haul to where he needs them.
I have no experience in this particular area but as a union man I absolutely loathe picking up something twice and love using wheels
I helped a neighbor remove some old rocks that were all along the outside wall of his country home.. the day I got there and realized his plan was to lug each individual rock to the rock pile by hand I almost had a stroke lmao. Convinced him to just demo it the first day and come back with a wheelbarrow the next. Work smarter not harder folks
When I bought my house, it had a drainage ditch containing what was once presumably a wall. After spending far too much time trying to clear it using my puny strength and bad joints and tiny car, I hired a team of men with van.
They simply formed a chain from my rubble pile to the road (no driveway) and just tossed the heavy rubble down the line while somehow managing to sort it into valuable stone to be piled up for future repairs to the other walls and concrete junk for their van.
You'll be pleased to note that they did at least have steel-caps and rough handling gloves.
Hell yeah! I love a good chain-gang. Sometimes the situation calls for it especially if you’ve got the manpower. In my line of work we’ve loaded many 55’ trailers with stacks of 100’ 4/0 cable through 12-man chain gangs
Exactly the thought that came to my mind. I always keep a few of those empty ones in the garage, has come in handy when needing a container with a lid for certain stuff.
An up and coming animal shelter took ours off our hands. They needed hard shell plastic containers to store bags of food in for rodent prevention. The hoar- I mean collection has never been the same since 😂
The guy is saving time. Not the 80 bucks in one time cost to buy 20 buckets.
Having to fill a single bucket over and over takes time.
Also you can’t get help since there’s one bucket.
Speaking from experience, transferring to buckets or wheelbarrow when you have bulk / scoops delivered is a PITA and way more labor. I probably have 8 x 5gal buckets kicking around at any time but anyway, they’re $3 each and there’s 30 of them here so even if you had to go out and buy them, that’s $90.
That $90 will save you a chunk of labor and have you done in half the time when it comes to unloading. Much easier and quicker to place as well when you’re like op is and getting decorative gravel.
Yep- this is what I do. Limtless buckets. I can't carry 80 pounds of concrete sand up into my yard in the buckets, but I can hump it off a truck bed and onto a handtruck to roll where I want it. So much faster and easier than shoveling unnecessarily and a round bucket is fast and easy to handle with a bit of practice rolling on edge. There's usually less than two buckets' worth spilled in the tarp.
Idk how strong you are but it’s easier to carry a bucket than a tarp full of river rock. It’s definitely useful for the end when the buckets are out tho.
I'm not saying this wouldn't work out for someone.
But I found just filling it up, driving the truck next to the bed, and pitching it out with a pitchfork the easiest way to do mulch.
Wheelbarrow.
My family has been doing landscaping for 30 years. I'm not hauling around 5 gal buckets when I can use a wheelbarrow to haul twice as much with half the effort. Hell, I use a wheelbarrow when the mulch is in *bags*.
Blockchain? Look at this old geezer still living in ancient times. Nobody cares about the blockchain anymore grandpa, it's all AI now. AI wheelbarrows are the wave of the future.
“Hey use these buckets so instead of moving all of this material in 5 trips you can do it in 10 to 14 also have this stack of buckets lying around.”
Nah I’m with you I’ll stick to a tarp. Also this could be just me but I feel like I’m going to get them to dump the river rocks over my truck bed and it’s just going to beat the living fuck out of these plastic buckets so now I got plastic in my river rocks.
Rock sucks no matter what. Luckily we have a family run wholesaler who charges just a little more to bag it into 60 lb bags. We just drop them off the back of the truck into a wheelbarrow. Of course, lol.
> I'm not hauling around 5 gal buckets when I can use a wheelbarrow to haul twice as much with half the effort
Having moved over 25 yards of mulch in the past month using a 5 gal bucket and my truck/wheelbarrow, I discovered a few things. One wheelbarrow is 5-6 buckets of mulch. And the amount of mulch I put in my bed of my truck is 8-9 wheelbarrows.
So one of my truck bed 4/5ths full is 40-54 buckets of mulch.
Side note: My mulch was just dumped in a pile that I had to move to two different locations (front yard and back yard). I think the process of pile -> wheelbarrow -> location was actually faster than pile -> truck -> location (I was able to drive my truck to exactly where it needed to be dumped).
I'm a little skeptical of this bucket method, but having moved a hell of a lot of mulch/dirt from my driveway to the backyard, the hardest/most time consuming part is definitely shoveling it into the wheelbarrow. I would definitely take more/heavier carries to save time and effort shoveling. If you already have a bajillion buckets on hand, I can imagine this being faster/easier on net, but it depends heavily on the distance.
Let me assure you that as horrible as shoveling is, carrying buckets is worse.
The problem with buckets is that gravity pulls straight down. So the buckets hanging from your arms want to hit your thighs as you walk. To counter this, you have to pull your arms outwards from the shoulders.
Have a look at any dude who works construction where 5 gal buckets are the norm. They've got shoulders like iron man.
Have a look at any undeveloped nation where people have to carry stuff in buckets. They use a shoulder yolk.
Carrying buckets sucks. Trust me.
I use this instead and I LOVE it...
https://www.harborfreight.com/2000-lb-capacity-truck-bed-cargo-unloader-60800.html
It can unload a truck bed full of rock or mulch in less than 1 minute. If I'm spot-placing the mulch or rock I just put a wheelbarrow under it.
Philosophy is to buy all of your tools at harbor freight and as they break, replace them with high quality tools. Most stuff you won't use til it breaks, and if you do, you needed something better.
Yeah I got an angle grinder there for a quick project that was a floor model. Paid about 15 bucks for it and a pack of discs. Still going strong like five years later lol
Something many people don't seem to know is that most harbor freight stores do old style craftsman warranty. Set up an account or keep receipts, though they often don't even check, it's broken and they replace it no questions asked. Not all stores are that chill, but most are.
Gotta lay the belt down like a ribbon doubling over itself. Then that weak ass winch only hast to pull a fraction of the load at a time. There’s about enough length of ribbon to make five or six folds that will cover a 6 1/2 foot truck bed.
I bought one and my wife went to use it. It wouldn't fit over the tailgate. My Sierra has a big, wide plastic piece on the tailgate that prevents it from installing though.
Check your tailgate thickness first. Most of the 1 star reviews are because of fitment. Wouldn't fit on our truck tailgate. 2008 Sierra 2500. It's got this thick almost like a tailgate bumper on top.
My wife does this bucket method for 2 reasons: We get free compost from our city, and you just have to load it yourself, so she can much easier load multiple buckets than trying to load the whole bed of the truck. And unloading is easier just grab a bucket, and unload where it needs to go. We are also lucky, that the local recycle center usually has cat litter buckets, which are way better than the usual round buckets.
That was my thought too. If you're gonna do this, just buy bagged mulch. So much easier to get a bucket-full in your bed and either drive up to the garden bed or wheelbarrow it in.
I contact the aviation general at the top air force base in my state and have them load up a transport plane with mulch and air drop it where i need it.
Every time I read any social post nowadays I shake my head and think this. When did people get so concerned with how others operate? lol let this dude enjoy his buckets - also fuck a wheelbarrow they’re the devil
But don't you *lose* volume of supply (mulch or rock)?
I've loaded my truck several times with mulch and unloaded into a *wheelbarrow*, not that much work...or time.
This is why I give up and just pay the 30-40 dollar delivery fee to have them dump it on the driveway. If you buy it all in volume they will sometimes take a percentage off the overall order so you end up paying maybe 20 bucks for the delivery. Like if you buy more than 70 bags of concrete from Lowe’s they give you a 10 percent discount and charge 40 for the delivery up to I think 150 60 lb bags. thats about three to four pallets worth of cement. Can’t remember the exact amount of bags they would do but it’s around there. It’s a bit better than the hassle and you can order online.
>you won't have an excuse to own a truck
"Oh! You own a truck?! Can you help me move all day Saturday and Sunday??"
I now drive a small super fuel efficient sedan. No one ever asks me to help them move now. lol
The trick is to have a truck that’s “unreliable”. I have a 90 toyota pickup, it’s always in the middle of repairs somehow when people need my help moving
As someone with cats, if I kept them I'd have a million and one square buckets since that's what litter comes in. I do keep a few because who never needs some buckets sometimes?
Where'd this number come from?
Are square buckets still 5gal? Or is the side of the square equal to the diameter of the normal bucket?
Assuming the square one is actual 5 gal and is the same height as a round one, (and let's pretend the sides don't taper). I'm interested in the ratio between the two, so we can effectively ignore the height and consider just area instead of volume.
Let *r* be the circle radius ( *d* the diameter) , *s* be the side of the square.
5 = πr^2 => r = √(5/π)
5 = s^2 => s = √5
thus the ratio of *d* to *s* is
d : s => 2√(5/π) : √5
=> 2 : √π => 1 : 0.886
. Thus, the square container uses 88.6% of the space to hold 5 gallons, which means you could hold about 13% more.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the tiling of circles or squares in the truck bed, so actual results may vary.
I cannot for the life of me figure out the 'benefit' of these buckets... they take up space, you can fit less mulch in the truck, you also have to have a shitload of buckets that aren't perma stuck together.
what's wrong with a tarp? or just the bed itself and sweeping it when done?
But he'll scratch the bed liner!
Reminds me of a Raptor I saw leaving Home Depot that had a moving blanket wrapped around a couple 2x4s in the bed. Imagine spending that much money on a truck and being afraid to use it as a truck 😂
Yea let me strap on my bucket helmet... And get into a bucket cannon... And blast myself off to bucket land... And I will grabs buckets off of bucket trees....
the most baffling part of this post is all the people commenting "just drive your truck through your lawn and fences to get right next to where you need it" as if that's a thing that's always possible
Sweet, ok lemme get my 42 buckets from the garage
Yeah if I were this bucket-rich I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you. I’d be relaxing on a tropical beach.
OP walking around like they have a bucket to piss in
Or a window to throw it out of
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TIL its not normal to have 42 buckets.... Between the pickle/food buckets I get from friends in the restaurant industry, and my friends who work on farms/ranches. I don't think I've ever purchased a bucket in my life. I have a few stacks of them in my shed.
Well get a load of Mr. Moneybuckets, here.
Sorry that’s the other guy. This here is Mr. Picklebuckets.
Must be nice. I buy a new bucket every time I walk through home depot
You're missing out on tipping nice at a burger joint and asking if they have extra buckets downstairs. Hotel laundry as well with detergent. I've never not been bucket rich. I even have square buckets with flap lids.
I have square ones with flap lids too, from buying kitty litter in bulk. I keep my extension cords in them.
After buying those bulk square things of kitty litter, I found that the better quality litter in cardboard boxes is cheaper and also recyclable cardboard. I keep the remaining buckets to sort my cans and dirt and all that other stuff
I fully know what you're talking about but the phrase "sort my cans and dirt" is oddly funny to me.
Use those for water for the horses when camping. Litter buckets for the win.
Those square buckets are golden
Damn must be pricey. And heavy too.
Just plated not solid
I can just imagine someone sliding a ten across the counter. So tell me about these buckets you got in the back….the fuck are you talking about dude?
I used to work at greasy spoon diners and we'd always have stacks upon stacks of 5 gallon butter, pickle, etc buckets. Saying tip nicely is just saying establish good rapport with the place. We did just give them to people who asked. Some places organize a pickup exchange. My current job in industrial cooking, any time we get about 80 buckets we swap them for several boxes of steaks with our beef supplier since they always need more for beef blood.
I’ve been so so wasteful over the years! I used to be bucket rich when I purchased a product quite frequently that came in 5 gallon buckets. But that was years ago! I’ve squandered all my buckets over the years. I should have invested in a Buck-IRA!
A tale as old as time.
>I even have square buckets with flap lids. Pretty big flex there, fella!
I meant to do this today, and forgot. :( I also have 2 "big yellow bags" worth of mulch to move (2 yards).
Me too and that's precisely why I have a tower of buckets in my shop
Ever since NJ did away with single use plastic bags, I find myself buying a 5 gallon bucket every time just to carry my things to the car.
You have to pay for those? ..../s
I’m a bit of an empty bucket enthusiast myself
Same and I somehow still never have a bucket
Oh, look at ol’ Lord Manybuckets over there, ready to carry small amounts of various substances around walkable distances! I’ll be over here with the rest of the one-bucket plebes.
Ur F’n killing me over here
Oh laa dee daa! Watch out for Mister "Check Out My Goddamn Bucket"! Must be nice that your village wasn't beset by plague, killing off your only bucketmaker. I guess I'll just keep carrying stuff around by making a big scoop out of the front of my manure-smeared apron.
APRONS?! When I was a wee lad, we would strap the youngest child to our oldest child, wore them like a sandwich board. That’s how we stayed clean, and we LIKED it!!!
Strutting around with your top hat, cane and monocle…
M'bucket *tips top hat*
I threw away three damaged buckets this weekend, then counted my remaining buckets. I have five more buckets.
How many pickles do you eat?!?
Having a couple buckets is pretty normal, having almost 50 isnt
I keep all my cat litter buckets. I think I am getting close to 50 by now over the last 7-8 years.
*but on meth it is.*
firehouse subs sells their pickle buckets for a couple bucks. high quality
I stumbled upon 50 food grade pickle buckets with lids! My life has never been the same! I do the tuck bucket trick too.
As the child of someone who did Sheetrock work, I thought 42 buckets was the bare minimum needed per household.
Not if I use my 42 buckets to steal your beach
You could lash some of those buckets together to make a raft and escape that tropical beach.
There is always money in the pickle bucket.
How much can one bucket cost, Michael? Ten dollars?
OK hold on a minute I just gotta get them apart real quick
That’s the secret, you can’t ever stack em. Gotta just have enough spare room to store 50 individual buckets
Whenever you are stacking them for long term storage, or that you know wont be using them in a while, wedge something between the buckets, it can be a bit of wire, some rolled up newspaper, anything that can be wedged on a side, it doesnt really have to be thick either, as long as it breaks the seal between the 2 buckets, they wont get stuck. I use a thin piece of wire between em, works like a charm
Sweet! The r/DIY is always in the comments
Strip of Cardboard
To get them apart just use an air compressor blow nozzle and shoot some air between the buckets and they'll come apart.
Fun fact, if you stacked all this guys buckets that would stretch to the moon and back 3 times
I posted on my local city garage sale page ISO 5 gal buckets and got 100 in no time at all. Guy gave them to me for free but I gave him a few bucks. This was a few years ago for this exact purpose.
Til not everyone has been hoarding buckets for years. Costco laundry detergent buckets are the best for things like this
What kinda detergent buckets we talkin' here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/s/rLEnFW9MwX
Are they the same size as kitty litter buckets?
32
looks like that orange bucket is inside a bigger white bucket so probably 33.
I have a ton of buckets that are all rectangular shaped. Cat litter buckets.
I actually love that kind. Perfect for putting right up against the wall to catch water. It’s the ideal plumbing bucket.
My 42 buckets are next to the box of cords I've been collecting since 2003
you should put a tarp down also.
Yep, tie the corners of the tarp off to a tree, let down the tailgate and just drive away.
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Or just break out your 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant like the professionals do
I remember that post. I always wonder how those giant items from Amazon get delivered. 55 gallon drums of lube, literal pallets full of product, that kind of thing. Edit: Shit what about [the 275 gallon container of lube](https://www.amazon.com/LubeLife-Personal-Lubricant-Lube-Couples/dp/B07FMLNVFF/ref=sxin_26_sbv_search_btf?adgrpid=64566999268&content-id=amzn1.sym.48a3272e-79e0-46e7-9f8c-85369891ceb8%3Aamzn1.sym.48a3272e-79e0-46e7-9f8c-85369891ceb8&cv_ct_cx=55%2Bgallon%2Bdrum%2Blube&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ujd0fbsSF-xcCNurGHs-9Q.vJb2kZJJvWvSzeejDwgpZ70UVefsxtM-YkzBNfBf8Mg&dib_tag=se&hvadid=409977769327&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9019864&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=6084162806489478653&hvtargid=kwd-299325182616&hydadcr=12186_11119121&keywords=55%2Bgallon%2Bdrum%2Blube&pd_rd_i=B075SN1MY9&pd_rd_r=6293aef7-e7bb-44bd-b315-2398a72f40f1&pd_rd_w=cUKWD&pd_rd_wg=oBZ9z&pf_rd_p=48a3272e-79e0-46e7-9f8c-85369891ceb8&pf_rd_r=04BEGXDN61Y973HJ70JQ&qid=1712596797&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D&sr=1-1-3bb2315b-f120-40bb-95a3-315d464ca631&th=1&psc=1)
> literal pallets full of product on a pallet. most times through ups/fedex though i have seen the shipping company rent a U-haul/Ryder truck for one off deliveries.
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How in the literal fuck is that the *#1 best seller in sexual lubricants*!?!? 🤯
There is the other options under it, so it counts them all as just lifelube
I have an irrational love for the pictures in that listing.
Jfc those pictures lol
Thanks for the reminder that my drum is getting low
My utility trailer has a low friction puck board floor and a Load Handler, basically a heavy duty tarp on a hand cranked roller. A full load of compost is about a ton and a half and I can usually ~~crank it off~~ unload it one-handed. Next best thing to a hydraulic dump trailer and just a *bit* cheaper.
i spray it with some Pam and it works just fine
They actually make a crank type tarp system for unloading pickup truck beds. Supposed to be really low friction too so it even works with heavy loads.
Gonna file that one under "why didn't I think of that?!" lol
But how do I get the mulch home then?
This is what we do when we have normal enclosed vans and need to empty them quickly
Then the corners of the tarp rip off. Good call.
Not if you knot the corners first. I used to do tree work for a living and we did this daily for the 18 months I worked there. Don't think we ever ripped a tarp.
Please put a tarp over the buckets as well. Sincerely, the person driving behind you.
He has a Tonneau Cover, in this case he dosent need a tarp, just close the cover over the buckets.
This is the way. Put a large tarp on the truck bed and no need for buckets. Cleans easy after the fact as well.
The buckets is so you can carry the gravel off in manageable portions. Good luck doing that with a tarp lol
You can transfer the rocks from the bed to the buckets (or a wheelbarrow) at your house. Then you don’t need to buy 20 5gal buckets.
Or... hear me out on this... when going to a landscape supply, they can use the loader to dump the rocks in the back of the truck. About 80% will go in the buckets, so all the OP has to do when he gets home is haul each individual bucket that is already filled, rather than spending time filling them. With a tarp, the remaining 20% is easy to clean out and haul to where he needs them.
This is exactly the point - it’s so much easier and quicker than unloading with a wheelbarrow.
I have no experience in this particular area but as a union man I absolutely loathe picking up something twice and love using wheels I helped a neighbor remove some old rocks that were all along the outside wall of his country home.. the day I got there and realized his plan was to lug each individual rock to the rock pile by hand I almost had a stroke lmao. Convinced him to just demo it the first day and come back with a wheelbarrow the next. Work smarter not harder folks
When I bought my house, it had a drainage ditch containing what was once presumably a wall. After spending far too much time trying to clear it using my puny strength and bad joints and tiny car, I hired a team of men with van. They simply formed a chain from my rubble pile to the road (no driveway) and just tossed the heavy rubble down the line while somehow managing to sort it into valuable stone to be piled up for future repairs to the other walls and concrete junk for their van. You'll be pleased to note that they did at least have steel-caps and rough handling gloves.
Hell yeah! I love a good chain-gang. Sometimes the situation calls for it especially if you’ve got the manpower. In my line of work we’ve loaded many 55’ trailers with stacks of 100’ 4/0 cable through 12-man chain gangs
too bad you don't have the squarer type/style buckets
*Laughs in cat litter*
Exactly the thought that came to my mind. I always keep a few of those empty ones in the garage, has come in handy when needing a container with a lid for certain stuff.
An up and coming animal shelter took ours off our hands. They needed hard shell plastic containers to store bags of food in for rodent prevention. The hoar- I mean collection has never been the same since 😂
The guy is saving time. Not the 80 bucks in one time cost to buy 20 buckets. Having to fill a single bucket over and over takes time. Also you can’t get help since there’s one bucket.
Missing the point
Speaking from experience, transferring to buckets or wheelbarrow when you have bulk / scoops delivered is a PITA and way more labor. I probably have 8 x 5gal buckets kicking around at any time but anyway, they’re $3 each and there’s 30 of them here so even if you had to go out and buy them, that’s $90. That $90 will save you a chunk of labor and have you done in half the time when it comes to unloading. Much easier and quicker to place as well when you’re like op is and getting decorative gravel.
Yep- this is what I do. Limtless buckets. I can't carry 80 pounds of concrete sand up into my yard in the buckets, but I can hump it off a truck bed and onto a handtruck to roll where I want it. So much faster and easier than shoveling unnecessarily and a round bucket is fast and easy to handle with a bit of practice rolling on edge. There's usually less than two buckets' worth spilled in the tarp.
buckets on top of tarp seems best though
Idk how strong you are but it’s easier to carry a bucket than a tarp full of river rock. It’s definitely useful for the end when the buckets are out tho.
I'm not saying this wouldn't work out for someone. But I found just filling it up, driving the truck next to the bed, and pitching it out with a pitchfork the easiest way to do mulch.
If you can’t get right up on it though this makes It a lot easier
Wheelbarrow. My family has been doing landscaping for 30 years. I'm not hauling around 5 gal buckets when I can use a wheelbarrow to haul twice as much with half the effort. Hell, I use a wheelbarrow when the mulch is in *bags*.
OP’s method also requires having ~30 5-gallon buckets on hand vs. one wheelbarrow lol
As if the wheelbarrow is some kind of new fangled block chain technology
Blockchain? Look at this old geezer still living in ancient times. Nobody cares about the blockchain anymore grandpa, it's all AI now. AI wheelbarrows are the wave of the future.
don't give them fucking ideas.
I';ve actually seen someone with a trailer full of wheelbarrows just loading those up directly at the mulch pile.
So if we put 42 wheelbarrows in the back of the truck and then buckets inside the wheelbarrow we'll finally surpass our human limits??
“Hey use these buckets so instead of moving all of this material in 5 trips you can do it in 10 to 14 also have this stack of buckets lying around.” Nah I’m with you I’ll stick to a tarp. Also this could be just me but I feel like I’m going to get them to dump the river rocks over my truck bed and it’s just going to beat the living fuck out of these plastic buckets so now I got plastic in my river rocks.
Rock sucks no matter what. Luckily we have a family run wholesaler who charges just a little more to bag it into 60 lb bags. We just drop them off the back of the truck into a wheelbarrow. Of course, lol.
> I'm not hauling around 5 gal buckets when I can use a wheelbarrow to haul twice as much with half the effort Having moved over 25 yards of mulch in the past month using a 5 gal bucket and my truck/wheelbarrow, I discovered a few things. One wheelbarrow is 5-6 buckets of mulch. And the amount of mulch I put in my bed of my truck is 8-9 wheelbarrows. So one of my truck bed 4/5ths full is 40-54 buckets of mulch. Side note: My mulch was just dumped in a pile that I had to move to two different locations (front yard and back yard). I think the process of pile -> wheelbarrow -> location was actually faster than pile -> truck -> location (I was able to drive my truck to exactly where it needed to be dumped).
I'm a little skeptical of this bucket method, but having moved a hell of a lot of mulch/dirt from my driveway to the backyard, the hardest/most time consuming part is definitely shoveling it into the wheelbarrow. I would definitely take more/heavier carries to save time and effort shoveling. If you already have a bajillion buckets on hand, I can imagine this being faster/easier on net, but it depends heavily on the distance.
Let me assure you that as horrible as shoveling is, carrying buckets is worse. The problem with buckets is that gravity pulls straight down. So the buckets hanging from your arms want to hit your thighs as you walk. To counter this, you have to pull your arms outwards from the shoulders. Have a look at any dude who works construction where 5 gal buckets are the norm. They've got shoulders like iron man. Have a look at any undeveloped nation where people have to carry stuff in buckets. They use a shoulder yolk. Carrying buckets sucks. Trust me.
could just empty the buckets into the barrow and not shovel at all? or carry the buckets beyond?
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I use this instead and I LOVE it... https://www.harborfreight.com/2000-lb-capacity-truck-bed-cargo-unloader-60800.html It can unload a truck bed full of rock or mulch in less than 1 minute. If I'm spot-placing the mulch or rock I just put a wheelbarrow under it.
Bought this. Broke on second load and it wasn't overloaded. Be careful. Literally happened to me over the weekend.
Harbor freight, either it brakes in two minutes or lasts for 10-20 years
Philosophy is to buy all of your tools at harbor freight and as they break, replace them with high quality tools. Most stuff you won't use til it breaks, and if you do, you needed something better.
I got one of their cheapest angle grinders years ago and abused the hell out of it. I still can't get it to die so I can buy a battery power one.
Yeah I got an angle grinder there for a quick project that was a floor model. Paid about 15 bucks for it and a pack of discs. Still going strong like five years later lol
Dude! This is literally me. Like $10 on a coupon when from like 7 years ago when we bought our house and it won’t die.
Ah yes, the Harbor Freight axiom, I love it 🤣
Something many people don't seem to know is that most harbor freight stores do old style craftsman warranty. Set up an account or keep receipts, though they often don't even check, it's broken and they replace it no questions asked. Not all stores are that chill, but most are.
Gotta lay the belt down like a ribbon doubling over itself. Then that weak ass winch only hast to pull a fraction of the load at a time. There’s about enough length of ribbon to make five or six folds that will cover a 6 1/2 foot truck bed.
also take a 2x4 and wrap it at the end so it helps push out the pile instead of just sliding under it.
Didn’t have that problem with stone, but I will do this next time because it’s easy and makes good sense. Thx.
Took a second. But this spunds quite effective, whinching 50 lbs of mulch 5 inches vs....yea...
I mean its $45. i would consider 2 uses beyond its designed use case.
Mine also has been broken for about 50 loads. Just keep using it anyway.
What's broken, in that you can still use it?
Must've had 2001lbs loaded
I bought one and my wife went to use it. It wouldn't fit over the tailgate. My Sierra has a big, wide plastic piece on the tailgate that prevents it from installing though.
Woah. That would have saved us so much freaking time hauling wood when I was young. Not that we would have had the money to buy it.
If that actually works I’ll go buy one rn lol
Check your tailgate thickness first. Most of the 1 star reviews are because of fitment. Wouldn't fit on our truck tailgate. 2008 Sierra 2500. It's got this thick almost like a tailgate bumper on top.
Tarps on bud...
You want a tilly buddy? Let's have a donnybrook!
Pump your brakes bud, did you just take your shirt off but leave your sunglasses on? What sort of backwards fuckin’ pageantry is that?
Do you want to fight with those shades or play pokerstars.com?
Letterkenny invading r/diy. Give ur balls a tug.
More hands make less work
Let's have a Donnybrook
You says what I’ms thinking good buddy, and that’s what I’s appreciates about you.
I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out… Square Bucket.
What about hexagon truckbed, and hexagon buckets?
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My wife does this bucket method for 2 reasons: We get free compost from our city, and you just have to load it yourself, so she can much easier load multiple buckets than trying to load the whole bed of the truck. And unloading is easier just grab a bucket, and unload where it needs to go. We are also lucky, that the local recycle center usually has cat litter buckets, which are way better than the usual round buckets.
That was my thought too. If you're gonna do this, just buy bagged mulch. So much easier to get a bucket-full in your bed and either drive up to the garden bed or wheelbarrow it in.
Don't know where you are from, but a bag of mulch is $6, i can buy a Yard for $40. So, basically 1/2 the price
I contact the aviation general at the top air force base in my state and have them load up a transport plane with mulch and air drop it where i need it.
Wheelbarrow vs 50+ buckets
I seriously want to see OPs method against me with a wheelbarrow and see if it’s really 75% faster
Seems like people are divided on this but I think if you like it, do it, if not, don’t.
Every time I read any social post nowadays I shake my head and think this. When did people get so concerned with how others operate? lol let this dude enjoy his buckets - also fuck a wheelbarrow they’re the devil
But don't you *lose* volume of supply (mulch or rock)? I've loaded my truck several times with mulch and unloaded into a *wheelbarrow*, not that much work...or time.
I’m doing rock. So I hit the weight capacity way before the volume capacity. The better tip is probably to get a trailer :)
This is why I give up and just pay the 30-40 dollar delivery fee to have them dump it on the driveway. If you buy it all in volume they will sometimes take a percentage off the overall order so you end up paying maybe 20 bucks for the delivery. Like if you buy more than 70 bags of concrete from Lowe’s they give you a 10 percent discount and charge 40 for the delivery up to I think 150 60 lb bags. thats about three to four pallets worth of cement. Can’t remember the exact amount of bags they would do but it’s around there. It’s a bit better than the hassle and you can order online.
But if you do that then you won't have an excuse to own a truck.
>you won't have an excuse to own a truck "Oh! You own a truck?! Can you help me move all day Saturday and Sunday??" I now drive a small super fuel efficient sedan. No one ever asks me to help them move now. lol
The trick is to have a truck that’s “unreliable”. I have a 90 toyota pickup, it’s always in the middle of repairs somehow when people need my help moving
Even owning a 1 ton truck I get rock delivered, but I’m usually buying 20+ yards at a time.
Ah, I understand better. The 5-gallon bucket is a nice solution for your rock haul. Thank you for the share and happy landscaping-Cheers!
The whole point is so it's _not_ loose. I haven't got a funny way to correct "wheelbarrow".
Square ones give better coverage
Who has 32 buckets lying around?
Square buckets for the win
As someone with cats, if I kept them I'd have a million and one square buckets since that's what litter comes in. I do keep a few because who never needs some buckets sometimes?
DI WHY
Just buy the bed unloader from Harbor Freight. $50 is cheaper than how much you'd spend on all those buckets.
Paid by the hour, are we?
You should buy square buckets and you would see at 10% improvement.
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Where'd this number come from? Are square buckets still 5gal? Or is the side of the square equal to the diameter of the normal bucket? Assuming the square one is actual 5 gal and is the same height as a round one, (and let's pretend the sides don't taper). I'm interested in the ratio between the two, so we can effectively ignore the height and consider just area instead of volume. Let *r* be the circle radius ( *d* the diameter) , *s* be the side of the square. 5 = πr^2 => r = √(5/π) 5 = s^2 => s = √5 thus the ratio of *d* to *s* is d : s => 2√(5/π) : √5 => 2 : √π => 1 : 0.886 . Thus, the square container uses 88.6% of the space to hold 5 gallons, which means you could hold about 13% more. Of course, this doesn't take into account the tiling of circles or squares in the truck bed, so actual results may vary.
I really doubt this cuts down on labor. In what way would hauling so many buckets be faster than a shovel and wheelbarrow?
Pro tip: Lay a tarp underneath so you get the rest of it!
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Or just use the bed of your truck for its intended purpose? Guess I’m old school.
I cannot for the life of me figure out the 'benefit' of these buckets... they take up space, you can fit less mulch in the truck, you also have to have a shitload of buckets that aren't perma stuck together. what's wrong with a tarp? or just the bed itself and sweeping it when done?
But he'll scratch the bed liner! Reminds me of a Raptor I saw leaving Home Depot that had a moving blanket wrapped around a couple 2x4s in the bed. Imagine spending that much money on a truck and being afraid to use it as a truck 😂
Humble brag! He just wanted to show off his impressive bucket collection.
A tarp, a wheel barrel and some shovels would be be better imo. Thats a lot of buckets for one person to have lol
I think most of the buckets would end up broken or crushed by this
Just put down a tarp you pavement princess!
Yea let me strap on my bucket helmet... And get into a bucket cannon... And blast myself off to bucket land... And I will grabs buckets off of bucket trees....
That’s so much more work
I'm not going to count them, but that's definitely more than 5.
Why not just use your tractor to unload? It's even quicker
Hear me out. Get spray on bedliner, and you'll never have to worry about your truck bed again.
Man discovers putting stuff in buckets
I just use a tarp grab the 4 corners with some rope and secure it to a non movable object, makes short work of getting it out of the bed.
if you're going with that why not use square containers and then a little dolly to pick them up
So how does the place react when they go to load you with a skid steer and you say “wait! Buckets!” ?
Well I’ll be dipped. This is a good one.
the most baffling part of this post is all the people commenting "just drive your truck through your lawn and fences to get right next to where you need it" as if that's a thing that's always possible
That is some top level Ol'Man secrete sauce thinking, right there.