Stuck together 5 gallon pails ?

[Stocker Steve]

My helper really jammed some feed pails togther. What is a good way to seperate the trouble some ones?

 

[M5farm]

tap the rim on the bottom bucket with a hammer going around in circles with someone holding on to the top bucket

 

[skyhightree1]

I normally put dish soap around rim of bottom stuck one to go inside pale and usually tap it and slides right off.

 

[Hook]

Circular saw to the bottom of each one. Un sticks em every time

 

[wbvs58]

Put them in the sun for a while and then pull apart while still warm.
Ken

 

[regolith]

Plastic pails?
Pour boiling water over the rims, roll them around on the floor then pull them apart (standing on the handle or rim of the upper one helps).

And never stack same size pails together... sometimes I sit them at an angle on another bucket, or 'pyramid' them, to save space, but you can be sure something will knock them straight and next morning it'll take hot water to separate them.

 

[Aaron]

Fill the bathtub with hot water and toss them in.

 

[Bez__]

Don't stack them. LOL

I burn them when they get stuck together - seems to make me feel better and helps more earth day folks have heart attacks.

Cheers

Bez__

 

[ga.prime]

Good fire starters and easy lit when there's some oil left in them.

 

[Nesikep]

I think most ideas on here have been proven, I'd try blowing compressed air into them if you can from around the rim... might need a fairly high volume gun. I've never had them stick together that bad... We get all our oil from one place, so they're probably all the same type of pail... Perhaps different brands have just slightly different pails?

 

[dieselbeef]

well too late now but if ya put water in the btm the top one wont settle into the btm one and they wont stick...
step on the edge of the one inside the other..pull

 

[wade]

Compressed air works real well. Blow right around the rim of the pail with your blow gun. Pop right loose.

 

[herefordlover]

A little tiny hole drilled in them will keep them from ever sticking but they dont hold water to well

 

[jedstivers]

Before I'd go to all the trouble of doing all the stuff I'd just burn them and get some more. My day doesn't have time slotted for all that.
Could throw a tire or two in the pile too.

 

[skyhightree1]

Before I'd go to all the trouble of doing all the stuff I'd just burn them and get some more. My day doesn't have time slotted for all that.
Could throw a tire or two in the pile too.

remember my tire pile ;-) I think they burn better at night. :shock:

 

[dieselbeef]

ha...i bought a pasture that had a junk pile on it with probly 300 tires..that sucker went like a volcano..it scared me after i lit it off. god knows how many tires it had...it made a heck of a mess after too..char and wires evrywhere..it burnt for days....i could see the smoke from town.
fire dept came buy and watched it from the road for about a half hr and then just left. never said a word...

it was an amazing fire