27 August 2021 Photo Hunt - Bucket

Well, this word was fun.  As I was looking through my archives I slowly realised how much bucket has featured in my life since about 1985 though the photos shown here date from 2004 onwards.  You will see my interpretation of the word bucket is a loose one!  Bucket is a container, sometimes cylindricalish shape with handles; so, once again, I've been thinking outside the box!

So here's a trip down memory lane for me!  

Back in 2004 Beloved bought 3 fields near where we live; he organised someone to dig out a road and put up a shed.  It was left to us to finish the road and the shed.....  what fun and interesting challenges for us and I learnt lots of new skills!

Beloved borrowed a friend's tractor with the Foster digger

on the back; here Beloved is using the 'Bucket' to dig

up the 'soil' that was piled to one side when the road was dug.

Later Beloved bought a blue Leyland tractor which had a

front loader/Bucket with it.  My shoe is for scale (I have

small feet!).

Next on the left you can see the small trenching Bucket on 

the blue Leyland and it is emptying the 'soil' into the

big 'Bucket' of the dumper.

The dumper's 'Bucket' which I am filling with stone by hand.

Beloved is busy elsewhere doing stuff I can't do.

Enter Beloved, driving and emptying the dumper's Bucket

next to where I am working, ie, building the next section

of road so that we have vehicular access to our shed.

Off he goes, while I start to lay out the stones.  You can see

how much more of the road has yet to be done.  Just as 

well I like jigsaw puzzles.....

An even bigger 'Bucket'!  Our friend was doing building work

on his house so we left our blue trailer there and Beloved

brought it back when it was full.  Once emptied guess whose

job it was to sort through it all as our friend did not really

understand the term 'clean stone'?  So I was removing nails,

bits of wood, broken slate, etc etc.

What a tiny Bucket!  Beloved dumping fines onto the 

crazy stone work.  I suspect I riddled this lot from the

above trailer load.  Well it certainly would not have

been anyone else!

Oh what fun!  Beloved arranged for over 100 tonnes of 

motorway plannings to be delivered to the field so we could

spread it over the top of the crazy stones and then drive on it.

Note the big Bucket on the left of the next tractor he bought!

Gosh, we filled this Bucket many times, thankfully using

the Bucket on the blue Leyland and not by my hand!

Here comes a load of tarmac plannings!  Once tipped it was

spread out, probably by me but not always.  While I spread

he filled the Bucket again.

I often filled the Bucket on the big tractor with stone as the

road making progressed as it was easier to get the stone

to where it was needed rather than use the dumper.

A big Bucket can be used to lift things, here some industrial

racking and heavy angle iron girders.

I would fill lots of Buckets (from the supermarket's flower

display) with small stones and fine stuff to add to the road.

Big Bucket moving a set of stairs.

Big Bucket used when knocking fence posts in; our friend

was guiding Beloved.

The load of three quarters down had been in the dumper's

Bucket for some time and would not come out.  So

Beloved hit it with a big striking iron until it came out

in one big whosh!

At home now!  On the right you can see a black water tank 

and various Buckets I use to collect water in so I can water

the garden and not use tap water.  You can also see I've

used some guttering to help me fill the pond for the

ducks; a bit easier than carrying lots of watering cans!

When I weed, I take a Bucket with me.  

Amazing what one finds in the bottom of a Bucket.

Using Buckets to collect seeds!  The tall sides stop the seeds

from being thrown out, well most of it!

Just the other day, the big Bucket was in use again!  A bit like Time Team, we uncovered the A-frame that had been resting up at our fields for many years!  Click here to read about A-frames.

A hole was dug under the metal bar so that a chain with hook

could be threaded through it and then hooked onto the Bucket's 

edge.  I retreated to a safe distance with my camera!

A few minutes later, one of the two pieces of the A-frame had

been pulled out and then held with ratchet straps onto the

Bucket's edge so that it could be moved.

How to people manage without a tractor etc etc?

Well, if you've made it to the end, have a gold star.  Thanks Astrid for hosting the photo hunt.  I enjoy finding the photos and being able to think outside the box!  Click here to see how others have interpreted this week's word.

Bye!