5 gallon buckets can be used for all sorts of purposes, truly limited only by your imagination. They can be used all over gardens to grow, arrange, and hang plants. They can be crafted into bird, bug, or bee habitats. They can even be used for an oversized game of backyard beer pong.

5 gallon bucket height is usually between 12-15 inches tall, with a 10-12 inch diameter. The 5 gallon bucket measurements are different due to the mold that the manufacturer uses to make the buckets and the specifications they set for their particular bucket.

As one of the most stable and inert forms of plastics, HDPE is the most common type of plastic used for food storage. Most “food safe” 5 gallon buckets are made from HDPE. LDPE is a thinner and more flexible version of HDPE.

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Buckets can be repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, amongst other uses. Buckets are also repurposed for the use of long term food storage by survivalists.

A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water. We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door. The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades.

1 gallon is equal to 231 cubic inches. 5 gallons is equal to 1,155 cu inches. 1 yard is, presumably, 1 cubic yard. 1 cubic yard is equal to 27 cubic feet. 1 cubic foot is equal to 1,728 cubic inches.

Kaufman Container stocks a variety of 5 gallon buckets (5 gallon pails), plastic tubs and plastic lids for buckets.

Many buckets are made out of high-density polyethylene. HDPE is a durable, non-reactive thermoplastic that resists impact and inhospitable climates during transit or storage. In the blow molding process, raw HDPE resin, which in the beginning of the molding process is called stock, is loaded into a hopper.

Height: The average height of a 5-gallon steel pail ranges from 13 to 17 inches (33 to 43 cm). Diameter: The diameter of the pail typically falls between 10 and 12 inches (25 to 30 cm). Weight: Steel pails tend to be heavier compared to plastic pails, weighing approximately 7 to 10 pounds (3 to 4.5 kg).

Then, in 1967, William Roper, whose family owned a plastic-molding business in Los Angeles, revolutionized packaging with the first five-gallon plastic pail and lid.