Bucket rescue

[Davestone]

There are two beautiful buckets on I75 on my way to work, i gotta stop and get today,no matter the risk, this is a treacherous part of highway so if you don't hear from me you know what happened. :yeah:

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[GraniteGirl]

It's OK Dave - they're probably your buckets from day before yesterday anyway :D

[John Bridge]

That's an admirable thing to do, Dave. Risk your life to save a couple deserving buckets. I hope all the bucket abusers around here feel some shame. (They're not Homer buckets, are they?)

:)

[ceramictec]

I have been spotting a bunch of buckets on the road also,
I stopped a few times and the last 2 had cracks in them so I haven't tried to rescue buckets for a while.
plus I don't think it's worth he risk or brake pads after slamming on the brakes to stop for em'.

[Tiletim]

Dave, I'll let ya in on a little secret from my days in the food industry.

If ya talk real nice like to a local restaurant and mention that you will be more than happy to take the extra buckets off there hands for them they will be much obliged. (pick a buffet restaurant)

And ya won't risk life & limb for the oh so sought after bucket.

I do admire your public service though volunteering your services to the highway dept. :bow:

[ceramictec]

yeah but your thinset smells like Pickles or Onions.

cake batter buckets are the best!......lol

[v10ford99]

I to have rescued a bucket or two it was the happiest day of there life so they thought. but then I put them to work and they couldn't even hold water i found out later they had been beaten with a hammer when they were just a little bucket. I think we should start a fund for abandoned and abused buckets.

[MudGuy]

Been there done that, lol. :D
Best find was an Estwing Masonry Hammer :tup2:

[ceramictec]

I think we should start a fund for abandoned and abused buckets.make all check payable to: Ceramictec :D

[Davestone]

DENIED!!!! The road work bastards put orange barrels there!One is a Homer, one is white as a babies' butt.I know they ain't one of mine cause they are clean as awhistle.I think if i take the Jon boat and come around the other way on 29 i can row across the lake and come up about half a mile away,i'll then hike it to the buckets, get back to the boat and row back across the lake and they're mine!!!!

[Theold--scottyb]

hahahha...

[tilelayer]

i am a bucket king, i go in dumpsters and find sheetrock ones fill em with hot water and soak em and dump the water to the next and so on, i have pickle ones and pie filling ones i steal em from everyone and everywhere.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Adriana's prolly right, Dave (http://www.johnbridge.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50314). You better paint those babies green to make sure. :D

[Bellsfloors]

Watch out for them thar gators Dave.
Hmm.. kinda reminds me of Atari's Frogger Arcade game :D

[Tiletim]

Dave, sounds like your on a mission !

cake batter buckets are the best!......lol

I agree but I think potato salad ones are better, 3.5 gal then again I do mostly Kitchen & Bath remods. there the black ones.

I get mine from a friend who I used to work with in the food biz.
This is just a weeks worth from him.

Somebody snuck that homer bucket in there :rolleyes:

[ceramictec]

I've had my eye on this one bucket but I'm
afraid to take it from it's current owner.

http://www.kendallgiles.com/kegblog/bison_bucket.jpg

[cx]

Whoa, cool to have black buckets, Tim. I ain't never had one of them. :)

[v10ford99]

I've had my eye on this one bucket but I'm afraid to take it from it's current owner.


Just send the helper to get it tell him he cant have lunch tell you have that bucket. :lol1:

[Rob Z]

My brick mason came to my job this week to rebuild the fireplace. I wasn't paying attention because we were working elsewhere in the house. When Dave (the mason) left on the last day, one of my guys came into tell me that Dave had wasted about 8 of our buckets with brick mortar. :bang: :complain: :eek: :crap: :cry:

[cx]

Ol' Dave's still alive, is he? :shake:

[Rob Z]

Well, Dave has two things going for him:

1. He's a buddy from way back, and

2. He is an exceptional mason.

So, he'll get a pass (just barely) :)

[Raymond S]

Dave, your last I-75 bucket story was the funniest I had heard in many a day, I am still telling people about that one. Obviously it made quite the impression on Adriana and Kurt as well.

[Dave Taylor]

Tracy done said: "Watch out for them thar gators Dave"!!
http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/778_alligator_eating_a_teasing_smiley.gif (http://www.clipartof.com)

[Davestone]

My wife worked at a rib joint for years, they used 100 gallons of sauce a month,no joke,that sauce came in 5 gallon buckets,after 20 years how many buckets you think she brought me?...NONE..Gotta get my own...i've decided against the boat, and am gonna ram the orange barrels,see ya'll and don't worry about me, my son is a deputy at the jail.

[John Bridge]

Brick mason's never clean anything. At the end of the day they drop their trowel on the ground. That's the signal for the helper/tender/hod carrier to strike off the last courses set and go home. I had a friend out in Phoenix who cleaned his level by whacking it against the wall to knock the dried mud off it. ;)

[marinemom]

don't worry about me, my son is a deputy at the jail.
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/char039.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

[Paulie Walnuts]

Icing buckets from donuts shops were our bucket gold mine.


Paulie

[johntrent]

I made a dash across the road one time for what I thought was an empty mastic bucket - I eye can spot the difference in a 3.5 vs 5 gal a mile away - and I love the 3.5's for wash buckets - anyway to my surprise I got a full never opened bucket of Tec Double Duty! A little road rash but no real damage.

I also have a partial tool box full of misc wrenches,screwdrivers,bungee cords, pocket knife & other things I have found on the side of the road - my wife & kids hate it when I stop for something in the middle of the road.

I have had a couple pickle buckets - I won't get them anymore - I can't stand the smell of pickled thin set or wash water.

[ceramictec]

I had stopped once to get a bucket, sent my helper out to get it since it was on his side. the opening was facing away from him, well he picked it up and looked in it dropped it jumping around.....someone left him a surprise and left it on the side of the road. :eek: :sick:

[johntrent]

:sick: eww - that would be bad!

Funny but bad :)

[dbol]

I always stop and or find tools and buckets on the road. Just from leaving our whs I have seen whole rolls of carpet pad, rolls of seam tape and buckets. Nothing real good but, If you are thinking of carpeting a room, those ruggers are in a rush and don't really tie things off in the backs of their vans.

[ceramictec]

:)

[Skelly]

you guys love buckets

[Bellsfloors]

This is what Skelly was trying to show.

[Bellsfloors]

I have a small commercial carpet project to install late next month. I will gain about 6 new buckets from carpet adhesive. I just fill up the empties with warm water, dishsoap, and cap them off with their lids. Take home and powerwash them out at my convenience. :D Hardly ever pitch out a bucket, have couple dozen or so all the time, but always seem to fill them up with various tools that I can never find. :scratch: :bonk:

[muskymike]

Hardly ever pitch out a bucket, have couple dozen or so all the time,
That's all Tracy? :scratch: :D
I have a life time supply and I keep adding to it. :D

[Bellsfloors]

Lifetime supply? And your happy with that? :scratch:
I hope to never have a lifetime supply, gotta have a reason to retire someday :D

[muskymike]

Yeah right but when you do re-tar you'll have lots buckets to git rid of alla old grout you have! :lol1:

[ceramictec]

I'm picking up a bunch while up in NJ from a local Diner my Mom knows the owners.
they must use 4-5 a day in pickles, mayo,etc.

I got 4 today.. probably have 20+ when I leave for home.....lol :yipee:

[Dave Taylor]

:scratch: Plastic bucket
ISO9001:2000 & ISO/TS16949
Abstract of EP0870690 :scratch:

The invention relates to a plastic bucket with a bottom and a standing peripheral wall connected thereto, on which peripheral wall an outward extending peripheral flange is present which connects to the peripheral wall at a distance from the mouth rim, which peripheral flange comprises a first flange part extending at least more or less transversely of the peripheral wall and, connecting to the first flange part, a downward extending second flange part with a first free end edge, on which second flange part are formed two handgrips placed mutually diagonally. Each handgrip is embodied as a cowl-like, outward protruding part of the second flange part, comprising a first handgrip part extending outward relative to the second flange part, a downward extending second handgrip part connecting to the first handgrip part and two support shores which are each connected to the second flange part and the peripheral ends of the first handgrip part and the second handgrip part, wherein the lower edge of the second handgrip part lies substantially in the plane of the lower free end edge. :uhh:

[tilelayer]

i get them from the bakery at the local supermarket the young girls clean them for me and all its the highlight of my week now i have so many they are always new in my truck and they are like mastic bucket size.

When you have an endless supply of buckets you lose respect for em, i no longer clean the thinset bucket i just throw it out and that pisses my boss of cause he likes the fact that i took the time to clean the buckets but thats all history

[muskymike]

i just throw it out
Shame on you Rick!!! :D

[Tiletim]

I just chuck mine too. Nice to have a bucket supply guy aye?

[ceramictec]

http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/images/lolcat-bucket-i-has-a-buckit-bukket1.jpg

[Rob Z]

My mechanic lives across the street from a guy that worked for ~20 years for a company that does lines painting on the highway. This guy has washed, stored, and stacked something like 10,000 empty buckets that are leftovers from his work with the highway line striping contractor. According to my mechanic, this guy's basement is completely filled with buckets.

This dude is apparently looney-tunes, but not just because he saves thousands of buckets. I know I would if I could.