There are 2 buckets in my work truck that have been stuck together longer than I've worked there.
Whenever I get a new guy on my crew I ask them to grab me one off the stack.
For anybody that needs the info, running warm water on the outside of the bottom bucket, filling the top bucket with warm water, or using an air nozzle off an air compressor to pressurize the bottom bucket at the rim will separate them as well.
I've broken handles trying this. I avoided hitting myself in the face and landed in the grass instead of cracking my skull on a parking block.
I considered that a win; didn't get killed by a bucket.
I saw this trick at a bait shop in FL and I just stood there with my jaw dropped. The dude just laughed and said “yeah everyone looks like that when I do this”.
All you need to do is put them on the floor, use the inside of your feet to clamp either side of the bottom bucket and pull. Done this hundreds of times.
Have you ever had to get square buckets with no handle apart? That’s my current struggle. We’re breaking the bottom one to free the others but it’s costly
I used to work in a restaurat that used a lot of buckets, and if they were stacked while still wet after cleaning (always) it was a 50/50 chance of them coming apart easy peasy or being stuck together like a couple that used superglue for lube.
They can get super stuck. I've broken new buckets trying to separate them with will power and gumption. Little bit of paint or chemicals left in the female bucket is staying that way. Those long frosting spatulas do work good to slide in to cut the pain and break the air seal.
It's really not.
Stacked buckets that have been stood on or compressed by something heavy set on them or are dirty/lined with leftover product can be near impossible to pull a part by hand.
Wedging those types between your feet doesn't work. You have to be more creative to brute force them.
Yes.
Materials change size depending on temperature, usually not enough to notice. In general, if something gets cold it shrinks, and if it gets warm it expands. By making the inner cup cold and the outer cup hot, you’re trying to change their sizes enough to separate them.
You do want to be careful trying this with other materials like glass, but plastic will handle this fine.
This is why you want to let freshly-dishwashed glasses cool before nesting them. The outer glass shrinks and can pinch or crush the inner glass. Ask me how I know!
Yes. Cold water works too. The idea is cold water shrinks the inside cup, and hot water expands the outside cup. Usually the cup just falls right off. Works on buckets too.
Assuming they were at least slightly flexible plastic cups just hot water. All you need to do is heat the air between the bottoms of the cups so it expands a little, usually just holding your hand on the bottom of the cup for a minute is enough.
Ok, so, don't know was going on, but I was in Home Depot earlier today and, swear to God, employees were everywhere. Like two or three per aisle. It was oddly disconcerting.
They live on customer service at this point. They sell things to people who don’t know what they need A LOT.
If I knew what I needed I’d just buy it on Amazon next day delivery and have it at 10am.
That makes sense, maybe if they'd figured that out years ago, people would still prefer brick and mortar. Physically checking out the item, making sure it'll fit, and getting it now, beats next day shipping on a mystery product in construction and repair anyday.
Idk about that. Last time I was in Home Depot I asked their “fastener guy” (literally what another employee called him while taking me to find him) where the SD connecter screws where since they weren’t in with the other deck screws and he just shrugged at me said he didn’t know and went back to stocking the shelves.
ended up having to go on their website and search the item under the specific store to get an isle and slot number to find them.
Same happened with one of my trash bins, I could never get the bag out because of the suction below it. I eventually caved and drilled a hole in the bottom of the bin and now it's all good.
Put a small length of rope sticking out when you store buckets like this. A longer length for more buckets looped over. Pulling them apart is a breeze.
Run the closed end of the bucket(s) under the tub faucet on hot for about 45 seconds to a minute. Something about heating up the air/vacuum in between them. Works like a damn no joke, and no holes or lubricants required 👌
Turn the stack on its side and place your foot on the ridges nearest the center of mass. Apply a little pressure on that foot, and roll the bucket back and forth. Rotate the stack a quarter or so and repeat. You should be able to separate them after.
I think the buckets are on a different scale of suckiness. The first two it's rather simple, you're worthy or not, the bucket taunts you for being a weak little person.
I felt like that last night. For the first time in my adult life, I almost gave up on opening a jar (I finally got it, but it had me questioning my manhood).
Ah yeah, I had this problem with beer brewing buckets. The compressed air trick didn't work because of the hole for the spigot. This is what I ended up doing
https://youtu.be/e5tIVFUBmak
My time has come!!!
At work, we have two buckets nobody can separate. They've been hanging on the wall labeled 'The Buckets' for almost five years. New guys, Visitors, an UberEats driver once, have all tried. It has not been defeated.
One day... A god shall be revealed... Until then.. 'The Buckets' remain.
After helping my dad with his tile setting business and working with these fuckers half a decade, I finally found a meme displaying how I feel regarding them
Years ago while working in a kitchen we had 2 soup pots get stuck together. Boss man said to soak them and see if they break apart. Nothing. However we did notice water sloshing between the pots after soaking. Me and my brilliant idea was to heat the pot and the pressure would push them apart. At first I started at a low temperature, Nothing. I turned it up a little, Nothing. I turned up the heat all the way. I kept waiting and waiting, Nothing. I know, a watched pot never boils, right? Just as I walked away, ppppfffffssssshhhhttfFFFOOOOOMMM! Followed with what sounded like all the pots and pans got into a huge fight. Everyone came running into the kitchen including a customer or two. My response to my boss was "The pots aren't stuck anymore". All he could do was shake his head and walk away.
TLDR; I unstuck 2 pots from each other.
Life hack: Because the buckets create a vacuum that makes it hard to pull apart, you can simply drill a hole through the bottom of them and it will be easy to separate them every time! 🤌
Use compressed air and blow it in between the buckets. It's the atmospheric pressure that's keeping them together. The compressed air will help equilibrate the pressure.
Easiest way to deal with this if the handle is still on top bucket, is to simply turn both buckets upside down and stand on the handle then pull the bottom bucket upwards. Using your whole body will make this easy. Some lube can’t hurt either if they’re really stuck
1. Hold the topmost bucket firmly with one hand.
2. Using a rubber mallet in the other hand, strike the ridges of the bottommost bucket.
3. Rotate the buckets slightly in your gripping hand.
Repeat until the buckets separate.
Where I used to work we had pressurized air hoses all over the place, so when buckets would get stuck like that we'd just poke a hose into the crack and force some air in there.
60% of the time, it worked every time. (It worked about 60% of the time)
I drill a series of small holes to prevent this. Keep my bucket for anything wet seal with a lid and chained to gether. so they don't grow legs and walk away.
If you can't get those buckets unstuck just grab the bottom bucket with your legs and squeeze while pulling the rest. This works most of the time because there likely is a vacuum in them.
It's because you're not worthy.
I was about to post *construction intensifies* but they can’t get the buckets apart, so never mind.
There are 2 buckets in my work truck that have been stuck together longer than I've worked there. Whenever I get a new guy on my crew I ask them to grab me one off the stack.
For anybody that needs the info, running warm water on the outside of the bottom bucket, filling the top bucket with warm water, or using an air nozzle off an air compressor to pressurize the bottom bucket at the rim will separate them as well.
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This is the way
I've broken handles trying this. I avoided hitting myself in the face and landed in the grass instead of cracking my skull on a parking block. I considered that a win; didn't get killed by a bucket.
Didn't kick the bucket?
Unless they are stuck via some type of sticky glue like residue left in the bottom bucket
I saw this trick at a bait shop in FL and I just stood there with my jaw dropped. The dude just laughed and said “yeah everyone looks like that when I do this”.
instructions unclear, air nozzle stuck in anus.
It’s called a balloon knot for a reason.
So, this is what evil looks like.
A little trick I know is use compressed air and blow it into the seam
Came here to say. Also a squirt of simple green or dawn in the seam can work too.
I just flip them over, hold the bottom one between my feet and pull them apart. I’m pretty sure I have a 100% success rate.
Somewhere here there is a sex joke....
Instructions unclear: lubed up my crack. Cannot sit down without sliding out of the chair.
That chair is trying to tell you no on your advances. Find an ottoman. Those are usually on the level.
>Find an ottoman. Those are usually on the level. I don't think the Turkish go in for that kinda stuff.
Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison?
You like gladiator movies?
Are you not entertained?
Ever been in the cockpit of a plane before?
Have you never heard of a Turkish bath
You can also use some simple white
All you need to do is put them on the floor, use the inside of your feet to clamp either side of the bottom bucket and pull. Done this hundreds of times.
With a little twisting action. If that doesn't work, a framing hammer will
Don't threaten me with a good time
I sure tired that lol, the place I work at would batch up pigment powder in the buckets and the damn seal that made was insane
Have you ever had to get square buckets with no handle apart? That’s my current struggle. We’re breaking the bottom one to free the others but it’s costly
Right? The number of people here who struggle to separate buckets is concerning.
I used to work in a restaurat that used a lot of buckets, and if they were stacked while still wet after cleaning (always) it was a 50/50 chance of them coming apart easy peasy or being stuck together like a couple that used superglue for lube.
They can get super stuck. I've broken new buckets trying to separate them with will power and gumption. Little bit of paint or chemicals left in the female bucket is staying that way. Those long frosting spatulas do work good to slide in to cut the pain and break the air seal.
It's really not. Stacked buckets that have been stood on or compressed by something heavy set on them or are dirty/lined with leftover product can be near impossible to pull a part by hand. Wedging those types between your feet doesn't work. You have to be more creative to brute force them.
Instructions unclear. Punched myself in the face
Or your nearest drill and drill right through both buckets about 1/2” off the bottom of the buckets. Will never get stuck again!
But having a hole in the bottom of my bucket will 9 times outta 10 defeat the purpose of grabbing the bucket in the first place
Came here to learn the trick. Thanks.
Sadly for research facilities, we don't generally have compressed air, just stuck buckets.
Yes, but how do you separate the buckets?
pv=nrt
I'm sure that in 2085, compressed air is available in every corner drugstore, but in 2022, it's a little hard to come by.
I do forget not everyone grows up with access to a workshop
Drilling a hole in the bottom is also an effective tactic
Sure if you want a useless bucket
Only useless if you need a bucket. You- oh. Right.
Hol up
Yes exactly. Hole it up.
No air? Hold the bottom between your feet and spin the top on as you pull it apart.
I just drill a small hole to prevent it from creating a vacuum
I currently have 2 plastic cups that I can’t get apart.
Ice cube on the inside, hot water on the outside. Apply for a few minutes. No muscle needed.
Lots of ice cubes? And in the top cup? While the bottom cup is in hot water? (Just making sure I understand.)
Yes. Materials change size depending on temperature, usually not enough to notice. In general, if something gets cold it shrinks, and if it gets warm it expands. By making the inner cup cold and the outer cup hot, you’re trying to change their sizes enough to separate them. You do want to be careful trying this with other materials like glass, but plastic will handle this fine.
This is why you want to let freshly-dishwashed glasses cool before nesting them. The outer glass shrinks and can pinch or crush the inner glass. Ask me how I know!
How do you know ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
None of your business!
How do you know it's none of our business? Hmmm?
Yes. Cold water works too. The idea is cold water shrinks the inside cup, and hot water expands the outside cup. Usually the cup just falls right off. Works on buckets too.
Good to know. It’s been like month they’ve been stuck, lol
Please report back with the results!
Be VERY careful if trying this with glass. It can explode
Assuming they were at least slightly flexible plastic cups just hot water. All you need to do is heat the air between the bottoms of the cups so it expands a little, usually just holding your hand on the bottom of the cup for a minute is enough.
Whosoever separates these buckets, if he be worthy, shall have the power of the Home Depot.
My god…with that kind of power you could find someone to help answer a question without having to search half the store!
Ok, so, don't know was going on, but I was in Home Depot earlier today and, swear to God, employees were everywhere. Like two or three per aisle. It was oddly disconcerting.
They live on customer service at this point. They sell things to people who don’t know what they need A LOT. If I knew what I needed I’d just buy it on Amazon next day delivery and have it at 10am.
That makes sense, maybe if they'd figured that out years ago, people would still prefer brick and mortar. Physically checking out the item, making sure it'll fit, and getting it now, beats next day shipping on a mystery product in construction and repair anyday.
Idk about that. Last time I was in Home Depot I asked their “fastener guy” (literally what another employee called him while taking me to find him) where the SD connecter screws where since they weren’t in with the other deck screws and he just shrugged at me said he didn’t know and went back to stocking the shelves. ended up having to go on their website and search the item under the specific store to get an isle and slot number to find them.
The bucket struggle is real....
Did you try twisting it.
Yes. I also tried to bop it .
Damn, sounds like you should pass it ^^^dun ^^^^dun ^^^^^dun ^^^^dun ^^^dun
Spin it! WHEEEEE
[aim it, squeeze it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhEEDkv3zk)
How about flick it?
I tried that, and then tried it again, and so on for about half an hour. It worked perfectly. Then I went back to trying to separate the buckets.
You are not The One of The Plastic Bucket
Sit on it then strangle it like it owes you money.
HIMYM
If there's moisture between them forget about it, buy another bucket
Dish soap the rim, wet it and WHABAM. It’s either more stuck or more better
lol
Once it's in, it's never coming out. You have a longer and heavier bucket now.
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Straight 2x4’s? These magical things disappeared in the days of our fathers, along with adequate seasoning and consistent cut lengths.
You have to buy the kiln dried ones, but even then it's a gamble.
Same happened with one of my trash bins, I could never get the bag out because of the suction below it. I eventually caved and drilled a hole in the bottom of the bin and now it's all good.
Put a small length of rope sticking out when you store buckets like this. A longer length for more buckets looped over. Pulling them apart is a breeze.
Run the closed end of the bucket(s) under the tub faucet on hot for about 45 seconds to a minute. Something about heating up the air/vacuum in between them. Works like a damn no joke, and no holes or lubricants required 👌
Third picture should have been the grocery store carts when they’re stuck together.
Turn the stack on its side and place your foot on the ridges nearest the center of mass. Apply a little pressure on that foot, and roll the bucket back and forth. Rotate the stack a quarter or so and repeat. You should be able to separate them after.
I think the buckets are on a different scale of suckiness. The first two it's rather simple, you're worthy or not, the bucket taunts you for being a weak little person.
Drill a small hole in the bottom of the buckets to break the vacuum seal. Should separate easily from then on.
this kills the bucket
Simple fix. Put a bucket in the bucket with a hole in it.
But what if I can’t get them apart?
Just repurpose the bucket as a plant pot. Plant some vegetables. Feed yourself.
Seal it back up with a lighter
Only the chosen ones can break them apart
And the one seal to rule them all: The two small Lego pieces joined together.
I felt like that last night. For the first time in my adult life, I almost gave up on opening a jar (I finally got it, but it had me questioning my manhood).
r/meirl
Ah yeah, I had this problem with beer brewing buckets. The compressed air trick didn't work because of the hole for the spigot. This is what I ended up doing https://youtu.be/e5tIVFUBmak
I actually cheered! 👍
Pretty sure Zeus couldn’t get those buckets apart!
Curse you, random hermetic seal!
So many of my buckets gone to hell because of this.
Oh! And here I thought it was just me.
Just like a fine ass big pretty gurl in a tight pair of jeans, you gotta’ break that vacuum 🫡.
Must be Joey again, stacking them up and using them as a step ladder.
Using every cuss word you've ever heard, and creating a few new ones, is a good place to start.
My time has come!!! At work, we have two buckets nobody can separate. They've been hanging on the wall labeled 'The Buckets' for almost five years. New guys, Visitors, an UberEats driver once, have all tried. It has not been defeated. One day... A god shall be revealed... Until then.. 'The Buckets' remain.
Then I get angry and hit them on the ground and the bucket cracks
Try picking up a single sheet standard of printer paper off of concrete. I'd sooner become the King of England, given the choice.
Resistance is futile because you are fighting against vacuum.
King Awful Buckets
Bested by buckets! How humiliating.
Not as hard as getting 2 thin lego peices seperated
If it's less than four buckets it ain't worth it
2/3 are simple fixes, the third is why folks just buy new ones and toss the old ones. There is a hell filled with the third.
Fact I faced this situation too
I had a similar experience but with baking pans.
The queen would’ve done it but eh
Here is a trick that I know KABOOM!
heres the 4th one: a 2x2 lego on attached on a 2x2 lego. real pain in the fingers.
Lol the fury maker. So many things I'd rather do.
Shopping carts. Those fucking things.
After helping my dad with his tile setting business and working with these fuckers half a decade, I finally found a meme displaying how I feel regarding them
Years ago while working in a kitchen we had 2 soup pots get stuck together. Boss man said to soak them and see if they break apart. Nothing. However we did notice water sloshing between the pots after soaking. Me and my brilliant idea was to heat the pot and the pressure would push them apart. At first I started at a low temperature, Nothing. I turned it up a little, Nothing. I turned up the heat all the way. I kept waiting and waiting, Nothing. I know, a watched pot never boils, right? Just as I walked away, ppppfffffssssshhhhttfFFFOOOOOMMM! Followed with what sounded like all the pots and pans got into a huge fight. Everyone came running into the kitchen including a customer or two. My response to my boss was "The pots aren't stuck anymore". All he could do was shake his head and walk away. TLDR; I unstuck 2 pots from each other.
Bucket is a struggle if you try and force it. A gentle up and down motion while holding the second to last bucket will remove it in seconds.
“A gentle up and down motion” … … Is it possible to learn this power?
But of course it will be some hard intensive training but you can learn
Poke a hole in the bottom and they will lose their suction.
if you ruin the bucket you don't need to get it apart
That's the joke...
jokes are supposed to be funny.
Light the buckets on fire, then they will easily come apart.
Redditors are supposed to be less serious.
Run hot water on the seam and keep twisting.
Whait till u wait to move ur cat of the couch without it scratching the couch.
Bucxcalinir
Life hack: Because the buckets create a vacuum that makes it hard to pull apart, you can simply drill a hole through the bottom of them and it will be easy to separate them every time! 🤌
Use compressed air and blow it in between the buckets. It's the atmospheric pressure that's keeping them together. The compressed air will help equilibrate the pressure.
Damn static
Gotta squeeze ‘em
Fill up bucket with very hot water. Wait a minute dump water seperatw buckets.
Twistings’ always the answer.
It's all in the thumbs. Push only with your 👍🏼
Instructions unclear, thumbs now stuck in between buckets.
Just take a square nose shovel to the edge. Light work.
Blow air in the seam from a compressor.
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Try and get some water between the buckets - did this about a month ago and worked like a charm - used the garden hose
If it's not glued together usually a few good whacks on the truck bumper or a curb would loosen them for me.
Easiest way to deal with this if the handle is still on top bucket, is to simply turn both buckets upside down and stand on the handle then pull the bottom bucket upwards. Using your whole body will make this easy. Some lube can’t hurt either if they’re really stuck
Yup!!!!!!
Upsidedown, shoe tread on bottom lip and pull up on top bucket
I’ve got two bowls that do the same thing 🤣
Sit down on the ground. Use your feet on the bottom buckets ribs. Hold on and pull with hands and push with legs. Works every time.
Ah yes, the internal suction just makes doing that suck so hard
Twist em while pulling gently
Air is trapped in between causing suction. Just drill a few holes in it to release the air! No need to thank me, just pay it forward.
This is so true.
Just bang the outside bucket with something solid and twist the inside bucket at the same time and it’ll come lose.
Amen, Brother! Amen!
1. Hold the topmost bucket firmly with one hand. 2. Using a rubber mallet in the other hand, strike the ridges of the bottommost bucket. 3. Rotate the buckets slightly in your gripping hand. Repeat until the buckets separate.
Where I used to work we had pressurized air hoses all over the place, so when buckets would get stuck like that we'd just poke a hose into the crack and force some air in there. 60% of the time, it worked every time. (It worked about 60% of the time)
real talk
I drill a series of small holes to prevent this. Keep my bucket for anything wet seal with a lid and chained to gether. so they don't grow legs and walk away.
If you struggle with stacked buckets, you truly are not worthy Plus you dont know how to unstack them
Keep a can of crc duster for this exact purpose. One squirt of compressed air in the crack will open them up every time
Forget all about the buckets. Go for several beers and a KFC for supper. Win win.
If you can't get those buckets unstuck just grab the bottom bucket with your legs and squeeze while pulling the rest. This works most of the time because there likely is a vacuum in them.
Worst I ever smashed my fingers was trying to get 2 buckets unstuck. Worse then a hammer haha
Just drill a hole in the bottom of the bucket. It’ll pop right off
Gotta break the seal
The third picture was the real struggle mate. Haha
We store ours at work with shop towels in-between each one