I have (2) 5 gallon buckets that are stuck together. $%*!!+=:) how can I get them apart?

Answer 1

grab the top pail by the handle and beat around the top edge of the bottom...happens all the time to my mortar buckets...

Answer 2

This method works-done it myself. You need an air compressor,and an air gun with a fairly long nozzle attached, like a copper or plastic tube. When you have 60 or more psi built up, place the nozzle up against the buckets where they are stuck together then pull the trigger. Don't be surprised if they separate with some force.

Answer 3

take a hammer and gently tap the bottom bucket around the rim while holding the buckets up. it they have handles, hold the handle of the top bucket

Answer 4

You've gotta twist! Have someone hold the bottom one, they've gotta be strong to hold it firm in its place. You grab the top one, and try to twist, twist, twist it instead of pulling it. It might hurt your hands a bit so try putting on some gardening gloves or something like that. If you twist them, they should come loose easier, twist them hard and pull up just slightly, not hard on the pull. It's all in the twist :) Hope this works for you! Good luck!

Answer 5

I lay them on their side and sit on them and turn the buckets and sit on them.

All while slowly wiggling the inside bucket from side to side.
If that doesn't work I kick it all the way to the trash dumpster!

Answer 6

turn bucket upside down drill hole in bottom hit inside bucket out with chisel and hamer then sing song thers a hole in my bucket dear henery dear henery

Answer 7

put the bottom one in real hot to boiling water. put ice in the top one. wait a few minutes. as the bottom expands because of the heat, and the top on contracts because of the cold, you will easily pull them apart.

Answer 8

George has got it right. I have done what he has suggested and it works.