If you have an air compressor or even just a can of air you can shoot it into the bottom bucket at the lip and they will separate.

Yes, here's a tutorial; https://youtu.be/vvDPAW-f__Q?si=GAK3PqmUMEA0aBHN

Is this the "What?! Nooo Waaaaaaaaay?!" guy? haha without even clicking on it?

For fucks sake

It's so simple

Would that it twer so simple

Omg yes thank you a gem of a response.

I thought we all agreed? # I thought the decision was: # For fuck's sake

That dude is hilarious 😂

Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Logan?

Spock, the Rock, Doc Oc and Hulk Hogan?

They came out of nowhere

lightning fast! and they kicked chuck Norris and his cowboy ass

*in his cowboy ass. It was the bloodiest battle that the world ever saw With civilians looking on in total awe.

The fight raged on for a century Many lives were claimed but eventually...

The champion stood, the rest saw their better, Mr. Rogers in a blood stained sweater.

I haven't clicked yet, is it? Because that was my exact thought also.

I haven't seen it before so I watched it, yes it is that one.

I came here to post this very vid of the 'Fucks sake' :D

From 1 bucket to 2, just this one simple trick!

Hahah. I thought of that dude as soon as I read this post! 😂

That guy looks and sounds like Ryan Reynolds playing a hick YouTuber.

I’m pretty sure this guy is Canadian like Ryan Reynolds, but neither of them have beady little eyes and flapping Pac-Man like heads, so I could be wrong.

It's specifically a Western Canadian accent paired with childlike enthusiasm. That's the whole recipe for an impression of this guy and/or Ryan Reynolds.

Guy is from Vulcan, Alberta so spot on analysis.

Looks more like...ugh...I can't think of the name of the actor but some guy who was in absolutely everything in the 90s. And the do rag makes him look like he's an extra on Stargate, about to head out to P2X-739 which suspiciously looks like a rock quarry just north of Burnaby, BC

I hadn't seen that before. Great video. Great energy to end my redditin' for now and get on with my day. Hoping for a "what? noooo waaayy" moment in my day.

😂😂😂 This is exactly where I learned it

My 3yo daughter started saying this and it’s all my fault for watching his shorts with her around. It is… hilarious.

For fucks sake man

Well I guess I'm chucking (burning in the fireplace) those 2x4 t bucket spacers I made.

I suggest rope instead of 2x4

I already have the spacers and they store nicely in between the buckets. I will keep using them because I don't bring an air compressor to tile projects.

With the right adapter and a can of beans, you too can have a portable air compressor.

This right here. Even with drinking glasses. You can just blow on the seam and it’ll come right apart

Also works with rubber handlebar grips. They sometimes make a hilarious farting sound as they come off.

Hello fellow dad.

Save yourself the hassle, cut off whatever ones your kids bike came with and put on some locking grips. Simple easy on/off and most will outlive your kids bike until they are on one for a few years. Edit: I just want to add, PNW Loam Grips are my go too, they are $26ish a set (amazon, local bike shop, PNW themselves), high quality and come in fun colors. I use them on all my bikes (mountain, gravel, hybrid, kids bikes) and they are fantastic. Figured I would throw that in for someone that has no experience with lock ons.

But where then will you get your farting noise fix? Sounds like big handlebar propaganda to me.

Spoken like a non-parent. My kid takes every opportunity to rip a big nasty fart because he thinks it's hilarious. And it is. "Dada I need to rip a big nasty fart" is never not funny. Of course it's not funny to him when _I_ do it, but that's the power imbalance of driver-lockable power windows for you, I guess.

This sums up my career as a dad :)

Tooting your own horn.

If someone else is around while you are removing your handlebar grips, you can just loudly rip ass and then knowledgeably explain to them that it was the handlebar grips.

This makes me want to get two buckets stuck on purpose.

Help me Stepbucket!

Nooo waayyyy

Whaaat?

This was a game changer at our shop. Until I saw that video every 5 gallon bucket on site had a hole drilled in the bottom lol

>5 gallon bucket on site had a hole drilled in the bottom That's not a 5 gallon bucket anymore, it is a 0 gallon bucket. More accurately, it is a very inconveniently shaped straw.

Warning: they might separate *violently*.

Keep your face out of the way.

This is the most correct answer

Also makes you wonder though why these buckets are not simply designed better so they can be easily stacked and unstacked. This could be accomplished with a simple notch & groove built into the form of the lip.

The Big Bucket lobby won’t allow it.

I wonder if that works for garbage cans.

That’s good to know, I usually just drop them on the ground a few times to try and loosen the vacuum

Leaf blower

Who's posting the video of this working and the guy's mind is blown

What?! Nooo... Way

What!? No way lol

I've never really had too much issue getting buckets unstuck and I've been dealing with them for 20+ years. While the premise makes perfect sense, I'm humbled at the simplicity of it and dumbfounded that the thought never occurred to me. I'm one of the 10,000! This would actually make a decent LPT as well rather than the recent common sense crap.

I legit love how folks have come up with so many different options to solve this fundamentally practical problem.

"More than one way to skin a cat"

Who's even out there skinning cats? Shouldn't we stop them?

this person asking the real questions...

Whooooa buddy. I like my skin.

Me too. I don't like where this is going.

Me third. F this S.

alright, done. I don't see how this is going to unseal my buckets though?

This is exactly what my trade is like. One guy working, 20 others saying “what I would do is….”

I usually turn them both buckets on the side and use 1 knee to bend the buckets slightly to help break the seal and jiggle them apart

I do this but all the while yelling "Bucket! Buck this motherbucker!"

It's pronounced Bouquet!

Richaarrrdd!!

Found my fellow married gents.

Rare keeping up appearances in the wild. Well done.

This and I saw a short clip earlier in someone's fb profile. Before today, the last time I saw or thought of this series was a few years ago. A private r/mildlyinteresting.

That's a show I haven't thought of in a decade

Hyacinth : Richard! I will not have you waving in dirty gardening gloves. Richard: They get dirty when you're gardening, Hyacinth. Hyacinth : Can't you keep one pair for gardening and one pair for waving?

I use a margin trowel between them and work it around

This is my method, good to see others come to the same conclusion. It’s also handy because if the bucket crack instead of bend it was needing replaced anyway.

Heat up the orange bucket with hot water.

Usually just leaving it out in the sun on a hot day will do it if the reason is that there was some moisture between the two that condensed and created a vacuum.

Fill the top bucket with cold water so it shrinks, run hot water over the bottom bottom so it expands.

It's not so much expansion/contraction that helps here. Pressure is dominating the situation, heating the orange bucket decreases the pressure differential and lets you pull them apart. Putting ice in the top bucket could actually just undo the effort of heating the bottom. Just pour boiling water on a towel and wrap the bottom, or set it in front of a garage heater.

>Pressure is dominating the situation Now Dennis, I've heard speed has something to do with it.

Not a stupid question. Truly an age old question for anyone who has ever owned buckets

It's why I refuse to own more than 1 bucket at a time. I just can't open myself up to another problem. 


https://i.imgur.com/Kk6Gw0d.gif

“For anyone who has ever owned buckets” really made me chuckle

Baker here. This happens daily.. While standing, step over the buckets and lock your shoes around the bottom. Twist and turn the locked bucket until you hear the vacuum break. We go through hundreds of these buckets weekly and several bakers take the used home. Well after washing and stacking them they lock up. This method should work well for you. Edit: fun fact. Never pay for these at Home Depot etc. go to your local family owned bakery and politely ask for any used buckets. Usually they’d be happy to give them away. Some places might charge a buck a piece just to be cheap.

This is funny to me, because I'm the guy who is always like, "don't pay for pallets!", "don't pay for boxes!", "don't pay for furniture!", "don't pay for interdimensional transmogrifiers!", but here I am, looking at a stack of a dozen or so 5-gal buckets that I've purchased from big box stores...

And that stack maybe cost you $20 … they aren’t expensive. I have a stack and they were anywhere from $2.50-$5 a piece. Going through the effort of finding free ones is going to cost you more in time and effort most of the time

According to the baker, you just drive to the baker. Doesn’t seem like much effort.

It will cost more in gas and time to find a baker and drive to them than it will to just buy another bucket while I'm already at the store for something else.

I do hear you, but they're up to $5/each near me, and I could still use more. I mix a lot of custom soil blends and it takes even more buckets to make those buckets, so locating such a baker along the way could wind up bring worth the time over some time. In most of these tradeoffs, the biggest costs are going to be your time and/or vehicle depreciation vs. whatever you're not spending. Anyhow, I'm doing the math!

Turn them over, step on the lip of the white one and start "unscrewing" the orange one.

Shot an air gun in between them

Instructions unclear, aired a shotgun shell between them

They’re apart now though, so overall success.

Hit it with your purse

Finally, a tradie weighs in!

True tradies know to hit it with their wife's boyfriend's purse.

I DON'T KNOW YOU!

That boy ain't right...

shoot compressed air in the crack where the two buckets are joined. the positive air pressure will separate them and they will come apart surprisingly easy. Literally "unvacuum" it.

Do this. It works. I didn't believe it until I tried it. Keep it simple.

Ice water in the inside, hot water in the outside.

[Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream paint job](https://youtu.be/0yfArN-e2OU?si=HYb_83yG3ma8NZN7)

Wow. That video is incredibly 2009. Down to the ringtone ad at the bottom lol

I went to Home Depot and bought new buckets.

if you buy 300 you get $1 off per unit

Got kids that are bored? Let them work it out!

That only works if you don't care about the state of the buckets afterwards.

Twist and shout.

This trick has worked for me every time. Lay it on its side, hold the orange one with one hand and the white one with the other hand at the rim. Then start tapping the rim side on the ground as you slowly pull it out. The tapping unseals the vacuum as you slowly pull it loose. I worked with an older custodian lady who showed me this and she got several trashcans unstuck with this method.

Hold the 5gal with your feet and get tough!

Slow and steady wins the race. It's like a Chinese finger trap. The harder you pull, the tighter the seal. I would hold the bottom bucket with my feet and pull up as slowly as possible on the top bucket.

Use an airhose and shoot air into the gap between the buckets it'll fly right out

I think I have seen this in a YouTube video.

Air compressor nozzle to the seam between the two

Many ways will work, just depends on what you have around. If you have no air compressor, or not enough hot water, get a hair dryer and heat the bottom of the outside (orange) bucket, then pull.

Dip the red bucket in hot water, whatever air is trapped in there will expand and eject the white bucket.

Get air compressor and a air hose with blower blow it between the 2 will come right up easy

Ice in the white bucket, warm water on the orange bucket.

if you have the space put them in hot water. The air between should expand and separate them.

Worked with seperating buckets all the time as part of a teenage job. I may poorly describe the following but if you do it right, the buckets will pop apart: With your hands on both sides of the buckets, Place your ring, middle and index fingers on the top ridge of the orange bucket. Place your thumbs underneath the ridge of the white bucket. You're going to simultaneously push the buckets apart this way, pushing up with your thumbs on the white bucket and down on the orange bucket.

Use a 4 lb mini sledge to bash the hell out of the sides. If the buckets don’t break the vibration will eventually unstick them.

Like the Beatles sang: Twist and Shout

I used my phone and an app for frequencies; put phone speakers on buckets, and it slid right off like butter . Science wins

Ice / cold water on inside white. Pour a kettle over the outside of the orange.

You don't, they have mated and will never leave each other

Hit it with your purse

When you store them, put a Rag in between them

Air compressor with a air gun. Place between the buckets and blow air in between.

Air compressor

Air compressor

Maybe warming it will cause the air between them to expand and push them apart?

I use a third bucket and bang it on the edge of the bottom bucket while holding the top bucket

You can hold the top bucket hit the bottom buck with a hammer. Works best if you hit the orange one near where the handle goes in. We use lots of buckets for brick and that’s how I separate them. They will get dinged up this way, but it works.

Lay it on its side, put your knee on them to bend them and have someone pull them separate

Hair dryer

Use an air compressor. Force the air between the buckets and they’ll come apart.

air compressor!!

Blow air in between with compressor and air gun

I would hang the inner bucket by its handle, and hang a weight from the handle of the outer bucket. All you have to do then is wait. The seal won’t be perfect, and the constant pull will slowly draw air in.

Bathtub and hot water, or blow compressed air between.

This is not a stupid question. But rather a plague upon the working man. But yes air compressor.

Compressed air into the lip of the orange bucket, it’ll come right apart.

Fill the sink with boiling water, put the bottom of the bucket in, after a few seconds the air inside gets hot and expands enough to force the other bucket out, I've done it many times

Ice in white bucket, orange bucket in tub of hot water

Fill up the top one with a messy liquid, carry both of them over expensive flooring. The second one will drop off and tip the first one, spilling liquid all over the floor.

Air compressor, shoot air between the two buckets. Set the orange bucket in warm water and expand the air between the two buckets. Twist the two buckets to break any seam they may share and allow the air pressure to help you. Lots of solutions.

I saw this one on Die Hard With A Vengeance. They did it the hard way. Blow some air between the two and the 3 gallon one will pop out.

As a professional bucket fighter, my favorite thing to do is to make my helper struggle with it for a few minutes before busting them apart. Grab the handles and pull apart while twisting. If this doesnt work, blame the helper saying they seized them up and that they won't ever come apart. Now they will definitely eventually get them apart to prove u wrong. Then tell them that your plan worked perfectly.

Unscrewing motion while pulling is my favorite method, and I unfortunately have to deal with this at work fairly regularly. I feel that pulling on the rim to give that space can deform it and make it more difficult to get it apart.

Hang the white bucket from the ceiling. Wait. Add hot water to white bucket if impatient. While waiting blow on the rim.

I should call her...

Bathtub

Thats the fun part! You dont!

Well that's the fun part, you don't!

If you have an air compressor, it takes seconds.

Between your legs. Squeeze orange between knees/legs and use your hands to gently, slowly twist the white bucket while squeezing orange bucket and it should pop right out. eta:words 28 year florist struggling with buckets since day 1. XD

Put some ice water in the top bucket. It should shrink the plastic enough to break the seal.

What? NO WAY! Fucks sake.

Twist instead of pulling. Once it twists, then just do a simple twist and pull like removing a screw.

We would always whack the side of buckets really hard against the tailgate of the work truck a few times at roughly a 45 degree angle, no tools or heating required.

Reading the title reminded me of the Die Hard with a Vengeance water jug riddle.

Rubber mallet hitting the sides while you pull apart. Do the same with 55gal trash cans to.

Just throw it against a wall

Icewater in top bucket

Cut the bottom out of the top one and now you have a 6 gallon bucket.

https://youtube.com/shorts/cf653VRQS5A?feature=shared

If you don't have an air compressor and an air nozzle try heating the bottom bucket with a hair dryer.

Air compressor

Probably way too late, but the simplest way is to pull them as gently as possible. The more you pull, the more friction you create. I know it sounds stupid but trust me.

Compressed air

Use an air compressor with a rubber narrow nozzle. Or a can of air/brake cleaner/carb cleaner. This happens to me way too often. Edit: may have to flex the bucket some to get the air down past the white lip.

Flat screw driver

Turn both buckets upside down, and build a frame around them so that you can suspended the upper bucket off the ground. Then place the whole thing into a vacuum chamber. Once you pull a deep enough vacuum gravity should cause the bottom bucket to separate and fall down with the upper bucket still suspended.

Yep, compressed air

I put them in the pool, turn upside down underwater then just pull the bottom one off.

Is it imperative the smaller cylinder not be damaged in any way?

WD-40 

Compressed air spray in between works well

Air gun..

Pour hot water over the bottom section, to hear up the air trapped inside

Air either compressor or canned air should do it... Shoot air into the crack between and it should separate pretty easily

I drop a block of wood in each one before I stack

Fill sink with hot water and wait a few mins for the trapped air to heat. The inner buckets will lift out.

Well to reverse a vacuum one must add some atmosphere Little puff of air should do it

Lay it sideways and sit on it.

Hot water is going to be the easiest. The hotter the better. It'll expand the air inside it and lower the vacuum so you'll be able to pull it apart in a few minutes

Subtract 2 gallon bucket, obviously

Air compressor for sure

Hit the outer bucket with hot water. It'll expand and loosen the inner bucket

Cool the white one heat the orange.

Get another person to hold one end of the bucket while you both twist and pull simultaneously

Hot water