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  • From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seperating 5-gallon buckets
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:22:14 -0500

No problem separating buckets here. Just blow air from your compressor down
along the seam where they're joined. Works great and is fast.

Mark (West Texas Zone 7b)

----- Original Message -----

> Hi, Folks!
>
> I have lots of 5-gallon plastic buckets from different places for folks to
> use at the community garden. The youth helpers tend to stack them all
> together and put them in the shed when we're finished.
>
> While the buckets all slide into each other just fine to stack, a good
> number of them get stuck -- completely stuck -- and we can't get them
apart
> again.
>
> Does anyone have a good trick for separating plastic buckets? I hate to
> heave all these "doubles" into the recycling bin just because the kids
can't
> pull them apart with brute strength.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth
>
> A mission of
> St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA
19460





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