GeoJack Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Mosquitoes are out so if you have any buckets around please dump them out. Also a good reminder if you have little ones around. Many kids die of drowning in 5 gal buckets. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Good advice Jack, 2 points that I never thought off. Now that I think of it, even small dogs getting over the edge for a drink and not being able to back out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul R W Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 That a good reminder, GeoJack. There's not much else that can ruin a bunch of lives more thoroughly than losing a child to an incident so easily preventable as tipping water out of a bucket. Not as important, but still worth thinking about, is that slick-sided containers of water are hazardous to other critters, too. I had some young fellows working on my Missouri place last year, and found a dead tarantula in a bucket of water they'd left behind my shop. The spider probably had dropped in for a drink and then wasn't able to climb back out. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Slim Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 It probably won't be long before california bans them. 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul R W Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 9 hours ago, Dakota Slim said: It probably won't be long before california bans them. ... or require new buckets to be manufactured with a minimum number of 1/2" drainage holes in the bottom, and forbid grandfathering of older buckets unless retrofitted with specified holes, followed by a 10-year governor's commission onsite feasibility study to determine suitability of drilled or punched, round or square, holes for the prevention of long-term water retention. In the end, the commission will recommend sponges (farmed, not wild harvested) as the preferred method for transporting and storing water at mineral development work sites. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Good advise and you also save bees by convincing the ever diligent public servants from spraying some unknown, but safe chemical all over the place. Kills way more than mosquitoes, but hey who's counting? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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