Buckets - Types and Uses

Types and Uses

There are many types of buckets;

• a water bucket is used to carry water
• Household and garden uses are often for carrying liquids and granular products made from hemp.
• Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets in bronze, ivory or other materials are found in several ancient or medieval cultures and are known by the Latin for bucket, situla.
• Large scoops or buckets are attached to loader and telehandler for agricultural and earthmoving purposes.
• A lunch box is often called a lunch pail
• Buckets can be reused as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamberpots, "street" drums, livestock feeders.
• Buckets are often used as a children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit.