This video should be on everyone’s bucket list…

Now I can cross that off my bucket list.

Brother, aint Nobody giving up there days coffee for a damn bucket!!

I toss an aluminum can in each bucket. Or a bottle. Something to keep each bucket from bottoming out. Also, do not stack buckets. Nest them and lay them on their side.

Great video! The pre-planning ideas seem so obvious......after you hear them for the 1st time. Thanks. One of the commenters said to put an empty aluminum can in the 1st bucket. That's one of the best excuses for drinking a beer I've heard of.

NOW this is one great and in depth video of a subject matter that affects a large number of us HANDYMEN. Look forward to see more great videos Sir. Have yourself a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Peace vf

Thanks for the video👍! The hot water is definitely #1.

I just watched your wick watering system. I'm trying to get my wife to listen to me, about how she can get more vegetables out of a bucket planting system. We don't have a lot of room to plant a garden. She is thinking of planting it in shaded areas. I think she will go for this as it means less weeding (we are infested with bind weed), and less watering. This is the absolute best. Thanks.

Yet another use for the mighty cedar shim. Thanks.

I can't stop looking at all the beautiful bonsi trees, he should tell us how he did those!

Thank you! 👍👍👍😀🌱

Sitting on them is a great idea, thanks.

Amazing. This is why we have an internet. Thank you.

Great tips ! Thank you !

Great video. Thanks for sharing!

Thank! I’d give this multiple thumbs up it I could!

I can’t believe that the person who watched for 13 minutes had the nerve to complain!

Forget the buckets, wow nice plants. Thats sine really good looking Bonsi trees you have.

Yep, wood shims. Only took one bucket stuck to convince me. Closepins also good. Thanks!

Great tips!

Not MY coffee!

I liked your video, much, I live in a city and harvest rainwater, so I look around for paint buckets (usually mostly) in this season thrown away. If feasible, I clean them of any paint with a steel mesh scrubber and now I have 6 buckets and many pet 5 -6 liter bottles also thrown away. Not to mention a 120 liter barrel, found of course. I only invest in funnels. A suggestion on ways to separate buckets, (though good point on separating them by type/brand), is (I tried one and it worked) I put a round consumed cheese for spreading container, with no lid, upside down, on the bottom in the bucket, and neighbor gave me some as well, so I stacked many, no problem. Another idea is just leave them be heated by the star, for months, forget about them, then when you kind of remember having done it earlier, you'll find them a brittle plastic ready to be thrown away, my case on my countryside plot out of town.

I can’t believe he talked for 13 minutes about stuck buckets.

Hey thank you...

Excellent video.

great video! very helpfull

Well I’ll be damed.!! The hot water worked on two buckets that I could not get apart for nothing.! SOB!! Good stuff bra!! lol Really got to give you the 👍!!

Thank you for this Video. I could have used it last year around Christmas time, when I found some buckets on the side of the road stuck together, really tight, and since o was going to use them for planting anyway, I drilled holes in the bottom bucket and was able to pull one of them off. The other two i waited for the Sun to do its job and was barely able to pull the last two buckets apart. Did i wait long enough, was the gap hot enough on the inside of the bucket?

Thank you!

Thanks 👍👍👍

Scrap cardboard shims work fine too.

Thanks a million. I have 3 mineral tubs stuck together, and I am going to try your ideas until I get them apart!!! A friend found your video for me.

Nice bonsais.

Thank you.

My favorite techniques involve either two vehicles with tow straps or, my #1, starter fluid and the butane torch! 😅

We used to take a piece of pallet plastic banding about a foot long, fold it in half and place it over the lower bucket rim BEFORE stacking the next one over it.

The brute force using the handle as a foot grab solution worked.

Your bonsai are beautiful!

I needed this info over summer..my buckets were stuck and ende up breaking a hole in one. Nebraska

Thanks

Hello new friend here🔔👍

Damn,I got locked up and watched this whole video. Thanks for the ideas.

A 1/4 stick always works for me.

Air hose works very good as well.

Great bonsai!! Thanx for bucket hacks.

If you're in a workshop, factory, garage, or somewhere there's compressed air, just open a small gap where the buckets join with a prybar or screwdriver, and jab the air nozzle in. Pops right out.

I use the chains of a trailer, for safety chaining the trailer to the back of the truck… I clip that chains on the bucket handle, and then just pull on the other bucket and it seems to work pretty good.

I got an idea for you instead of wasting coffee hold the two buckets up to your muffler on your car and just slowly turn the buckets from the exhaust system and problem solved. Thanks for your video.

Crumbled newspaper ( two newspapers per bucket) has always worked for me. Stack them as many you wish. Never a stuck bucket.

look at the great bonsai

I have a project you might can help me with. For about a decade I have been saving big soda pop bottles. If you cut the bottoms off about 4 inches up the make great outdoor dog water dishes. Or great seedling pots if you poke a hole in them for drainage. Little containers for screws, nuts and many other objects. A favorite for years is storing tiny pieces of steel, rusty nails and often keeping water in them so i can pour that rusty water on my flowering plants and my garden vegetable plants. However, I found a better use last summer when i constructed my first hanging bottle veggie stand. I cut off the ends, sliced a big V out, overlapped the sides and staples them together. Now it was a skiny bottle like I'd rather have to hang. BUT was a bit flimsy. Then I thought back to when I used drive OTR. Picking up bottles to take to the bottling plant is really light. I flew like the wind from SLC to Vegas. Not so much on my 2nd trip. Those were plugs. The ones before they are heated to create the thin walled bottle to be filled with soda pop. Hey, methinks if they heat them up to expand them, I should be able to heat them to shrink them. Yeah, that didn't go so well. Then I made a paper mache plug to stick in the middle. Better . . . Somewhat Hair dryer to weak . . . Heat gun too hot. I have made several hanging gardens and given them away, but they have had to supply their own bottles. I think of my handy little project as a way to get more people back into feeding themselves. I have looked all over this area for someone to get on my band wagon. To come up with a better shrinking solution. And someone to video my whole process and for them to post it on YT. Help, please or not 💕

That is some great ideas BUT I have another problem. I have two round wire office trash cans stuck together . Just waiting for my son to come over an hold one while I pull on the other 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️. Thanks

I don’t know if I just wasn’t paying attention but I didn’t see the hammer to the edge of the second bucket tap tap tap that seems to work really well for me. By the way, try a bucket that has been used for moving concrete that wasn’t cleaned properly, that is the tough one! The inside of the bucket is like sandpaper, and actually grabs the outside of the. Second bucket. And the other is I just use my fingertips to pry the two apart while finger and thumb, in a somewhat of a snapping your fingers motion push up with your thumb and down with your finger and done!

They could re-design the buckets with: (1) a vertical ridge along the side from top to bottom; or (2) a downward-extended lip at the top that stops the bucket from nesting tightly inside another bucket; or (3) a perforated ridge around the bottom, which allows the nested buckets to stick together but also allows the flow of air when pulling them apart.

You will go to the store and buy new buckets before you will get my COFFEE. Was a great vid though, After I got my breathing under control after the coffee idea I did give you a like LOL

One thing you never want to do is "kick the bucket"... LOL

I use a blow gun on the air hose and blow at the seem. Works quick.

Look I am usually at Lowe's trying to gat a bucket apt and can't do all this wet messy stuff

I use scrape 2 by 4s a d drop in bottom bucket

Would a screwdriver not work? Anything to break that vacuum seal.

I really like that zip tie idea. Most Dollar Stores in the US or a Dollarama in Canada sell 'really' cheap zip ties. Just buy a few bags of the smallest ones and only use them on your buckets when you acquire a new one. Even a screwdriver and a large enough screw should make the hole big enough to work. Maybe then just buy a bag/box of the screws from the same store you bought the zip ties from. That way, you are NOT about to use those crappy screws for real work, and just put one of those screws into each bag of zip ties. Once the trick of those zip ties hit me, all these other ideas just popped into my head as I was typing.

I have 2x4 chunks that i put in each bucket then add another bucket.

Fold 5”-8” piece of cardboard into sections. Stand on end in bottom of bucket, stacking each w/piece of cardboard. Better to store upside down, to keep bugs and debris out.

If you own a air compressor blow air around rim works

Mike Rowe did 5 minutes about a pencil when he auditioned for QVC.

Problem is when you stack different buckets together. I try to stack same brand of buckets into each other. They are designed to be stacked and shipped this way so they will not stick.

Do these methods work on stuck shopping carts?

I drape a rag over the side of the bottom bucket.

Before the guyz on my crew would give up their coffee they would their !

Wow nice bonsai trees

I drop a plastic milk bottle top into each bucket before stacking them. UK. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I use a scrap piece of 2x4.

A flathead screwdriver works every time.

Hot water in bucket, 10 minutes- check. Gorgeous bonsai ❤

I tried the hot water trick, but the manager at the home improvement store got really upset with me and asked me to leave. 😂

It would be nice if ths bucket manufacturers would just mo.d a small wedge when making the dang buckets .

Put the top bucket handle inside of the bucket below…never had one stuck doing it that way

old rope or pieces of lold fire hose. Anything to keep an air passage - use a heat gun to warm the air in the bottom bucket..

Or use a blast of compressed air

WD-40 is also a good go-to

I stack half a dozen buckets together loosely and I lay the stacks on their sides.

Going to remember, and share, some of these STUCK BUCKET tricks. Also, how about a painters stick or piece of draped nylon rope to prevent vacuum sticking

In the thousands of years that stuck buckets have been a problem you’d think manufacturers would have engineered away the handle problem. Good lord. Or maybe the stuck bucket problem altogether. Further, I think that this ignoring small problems that cause frustration and waste time are a function of some deficit in human progress. It’s part of the “done is good enough culture”

Why in the heck do they not build something into these things to prevent this?? I've used a length of string tied to the handle to dangle into the bucket. Works pretty good if you remember to do it.

At 1:12 you say you took water from a "hot water heater" ! I have a water heater that makes the cold water hot. Maybe you need one like that to save energy !!!

Generally good advice, but the problem is more due to the wedging action than the vacuum. That is why some kind of lubricant between the buckets works. Pouring hot water in the inner bucket will probably make it more stuck because the inner bucket will expand more than the outer bucket and get wedged more tightly. Cold water works better.

---- short bit of copper wire - bend it so it slips over the lip of the bucket - single piece per bucket - the ground wire from romex is perfect - nary a stuck bucket

No body will give up their coffee even cold.

Most everybody has sticks / small branches to place between the buckets. Also, stones / rocks or most any other items can be placed between buckets before storage. Let your scraps / junk items work for you and let your imagination run wild.

Dude, you had my undivided attention, up until the using coffee method! Bet you light up the internet with this inflammatory statement! Nice presentation and I'll live through the coffee instance and try not to kick the bucket. Thank you.

Hmmm... If you can do that with two quarters, then it seems like you could use two house keys and have more leverage as long as you don't bend them and make them unusable as keys. Of course, there are other possibilities such as two screwdrivers, but if you are toolless and only relying on what you have in your pockets, quarters or keys would be the most probable.

I just put a flat head screwdriver in between them and turn a quarter turn to break the seal.

@ 2:23 - Hmm, I hope that stream is coming from a hose!

QUARTER trick at 5:23!!!!!

Air hose

Well you don't happen to have quarters and during your Workshop washers would do the same thing that they're narrowing up on the edge you can take two of them use your grinder make bench grinder to shape them a little bit so they're tapered just right and put them in there and pry the buckets up that way and you can use a string to tie the two washers modified to the bucket so all you have to do is use them for the handle

I throw a two inch small block of wood at the bottom of the first bucket, so the upper bucket never seals against the first one .

I insert 2 knife blades on each side and turn the knife. It pops right out.

Two ways works for me. Drill a small hole on the bottom then compressed air. Second method small blower nozzle compressed air into the side without drilling. Old buckets not worth saving, it will crack and disintegrate.

Wet buckets stick together...i stord my buckets upside down and usually no problem