[pct-l] bounce bucket

[Trekker4 at aol.com]

Personal experience, in 05:  
USPS doesn't care about your bounce bucket; at my  2nd resupply the handle 
was missing; fortunately I was at a Motel 6 (Big Bear?),  where some painting 
was being done, so I scrounged one from an empty 5-gl paint  bucket; from then 
on I taped it down between towns. Once that handle comes out  of the holes, 
they're never quite the same. 
    When I pick it up at a PO, if I have to walk more  than a block to a 
motel, I loosen the handle, and use the tape I just peeled off  to tape the handle 
in an upright position, around the holes, to keep it from  popping loose. 
When shipping a bucket tape down all parts of the handle;  they'll always catch 
on something otherwise.
    I use 2-in pieces of diagonal, orange tape on my  boxes, and an orange, 
Home Depot bucket. This keeps me properly color  coordinated on the trail. 

 
Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen
Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if  it 
wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' 
-- Harry Browne

"If you think  health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs 
when its free."  
-- P. J. ORourke



In a message dated 2/23/2008 3:31:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, Trekker4  
writes:

Personal experience, in 05: 
    USPS doesn't care about your bounce bucket; at my  2nd resupply the 
handle was missing; fortunately I was at a Motel 6 (Big  Bear?), where some 
painting was being done, so I scrounged one from an empty  5-gl paint bucket; from 
then on I taped it down between towns. Once that  handle comes out of the holes, 
they're never quite the same. 
    When I pick it up at a PO, if I have to walk more  than a block to a 
motel, I loosen the handle, and use the tape I just peeled  off to tape the handle 
in an upright position, around the holes, to keep it  from popping loose. 
When shipping a bucket tape down all parts of the  handle; they'll always catch 
on something otherwise.
    I use 2-in pieces of diagonal, orange tape on my  boxes, and an orange, 
Home Depot bucket. This keeps me properly color  coordinated on the trail.   
 
 
Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen
Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See,  if it 
wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' 
-- Harry Browne

"If you  think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs 
when its  free." 
-- P. J. ORourke



In a message dated 2/23/2008 11:12:26 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lbakkar at hotmail.com writes:

Hi,  all.  I am preparing my 5-gallon bounce bucket for my PCT  thru-hike.  
For those of you who have used this kind of bounce  system, is it okay to 
leave the handle on?  Have any of you taken  off the metal handle and put a 
rope handle on instead?  (That is  how I did it for a couple of canoe trips.)

Lindy (Blue  Butterfly)


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