Passed a real nice double-wheeled wheel barrow tonight on the way home up agains the left jersey barrier. Thought to myself “if I was a cop or highway worker, I’d stop and pick that up”.
Have you ever stopped along the highway and picked up a stray 5 gallon bucket?
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Yep, so much for those blue “adopt a highway litter campaign” I recall growing up
Well that`s different.
No but I are stuff like that on the road when on the motorcycle 
The only thing I ever stopped to pick up is a tarp that I thought I'd secured properly but didn't and it blew off of the bed of the truck. Fortunately, no one was behind me and I was able to get it and get back in the truck before a car came along.
I identify as white trash, thank you.
However I've never stopped to get a bucket. I did, however, grab a 6-qt case of Castrol 5W20 that had obviously just fallen out of the back of a truck. Undamaged.
Being a road cyclist I get a very different perspective of the roadside. I've ridden home with a SnapOn wobble adapter, a Craftsman combo wrench, an auto dark welding hood, and a shovel (the latter was VERY close to home).
But not a bucket. Hmm.
The ones for sale empty, are all bucket shaped object junk IME, not worth $5.... I scored a few good ones when they were renovating our local hockey arena. They were paint buckets and just set empty beside the dumpster.
Five gallon plastic buckets have been around for years but what has caused the up tick over the past 5-7 years of buckets blowing out of pickup trucks onto the highways? I see these all the time now on the interstate but would not risk my life stopping for something that costs $2. I did pick one up once on a benign road. In it's former life it was used as a tar pitch bucket for a roofer ...
My guess is higher speeds caused the up tick. big surface are, likely empty, low pressure does a number on them.
anything big enough to cause damage, and only if I can't get around....
And never ever use your cheparse bucket as a "solvent/lube" catcher when spraying precious firearm or engine parts off. That will eat at 'em/shrivel pullin 'n crack. Ugri.
I was sorta surprised HF was the higher priced place for buckets.
The cracked ones from Lowe's are still OK for weeding and such
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I buy the 5 gallon dove buckets for my Jeep - good storage, padded lid, and can use to haul seawater if I need to pack sand under a tire.
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No. But I had to pull over after I ran over one with the Safari and it got wedged under the front bumper.
I also hit an empty 5-gallon water cooler bottle. It exploded on impact.
Both incidences occurred before dawn on the interstate.
I also hit an empty 5-gallon water cooler bottle. It exploded on impact.
Both incidences occurred before dawn on the interstate.
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