Show your bucket!

[ALPHA]

Yes ALPHA i agree but think about this
there are thousands of forum members out there and even more that just pop in and look on the site and yet many have chosen to stay silent on this subject.
Now i have to ask,,,,why is that?
Are there secret bucket owners out there?
If so,why would a bucket be secret?
I have so many questions regarding the bucket like
Who said a bucket has to "Dangle"?
Where was the first bucket used and by who?
Did the allied forces have buckets and if so were they the same shape,size and colour as German buckets?
What was in the bucket?,,,,no,don't answer that.

I did find this http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Brief-Histo ... id=7182211 but i fear it answers none of the above questions and i fear that the bucket question will remain one of the biggest mystery's of this forum and of ww2.

Tim

Edit
I just found this http://www.blitz72.com/2011/08/scratchb ... ww2-tanks/ omg there are even sites showing how scratch build buckets,,,,,

............ EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALPHA

PS...I think the allies didn't use BUCKETs ....they had helmets to scoop water and cook in ...Germans couldn't remove the liners from their helmets... thing is they had mess kits... so yeah the BUCKET is definitely a conversation piece

[dgsselkirk]

Ah boys the bucket puzzle... I did read about a reason. think oveheating and rads especially on the Panthers...
Just what I read but can't remember where...

[ALPHA]

Ah boys the bucket puzzle... I did read about a reason. think oveheating and rads especially on the Panthers...
Just what I read but can't remember where...

Thus the Soliloquy of Prince Mantlet
To BUCKET or not to BUCKET.... that is the question... weather tis nobler be to face the slings and arrows...of outrageous criticisms
or take up BUCKETS in the sea of never ending peer pressure..........................
Dredgeth thee must...BUCKET in hand..scraping through the mud and dust seeking life giving fluid ... six feet under ...Eureka!!!....Glistening ...unpurified ... weighted water...
giveth it to another to partake.... He dies

ALPHA

[jarndice]

For a brief moment I wondered what that roaring was, but i have worked out that it was the Bard of Avon (Shakespeare) spinning up to warp speed, HOW DARE YOU, just because most Englishmen have never read or attended a performance of his work it is never the less profanity to misquote him and long overdue. continuing with the bucket theme someone mentioned a "golden bucket" and I am left wondering whether it has anything to do with the Royal Navy's Golden Rivet? shaun

[ALPHA]

For a brief moment I wondered what that roaring was, but i have worked out that it was the Bard of Avon (Shakespeare) spinning up to warp speed, HOW DARE YOU, just because most Englishmen have never read or attended a performance of his work it is never the less profanity to misquote him and long overdue. continuing with the bucket theme someone mentioned a "golden bucket" and I am left wondering whether it has anything to do with the Royal Navy's Golden Rivet? shaun

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Tainted essence ... taken in from BUCKET


ALPHA

[mdkboggle]

It get's worse
While digging deep into the History of bucketness i wondered what the German word was for bucket.
I wish i had never looked because now i am even more confused and almost convinced the bucket MAY have been some sort of secret weapon,,why you ask?

Because if google translation is right they have 3 words for bucket as follows,,,,,, Behylter, Eimer, Schaufel,,,,,,now i think this was done to confuse the allied code breakers at Bletchley park and may have been used in the breakout at the Ardennes,,,,bear with me here a sec please,,,
Ok i think the German bucket may have been painted with faces and placed along a false front making Allied spotters think thousands of troops were massing where in fact they were all buckets.
Due to the Germans using the Bucket as a code,cos they have 3 words for it,,Bletchley park are a little stuffed as to what is going on and this gave the Germans the element of surprise when they attacked.
you don't believe me do you?,,,i think i have evidence to prove my claim,,,,,look

Tiger 211 taking more than the average bucket to the false front line build up.

SS-Tiger-102-03.jpg

and here we see the buckets are gone and the guy on the motor bike is handed the starting pistol to be used to get the breakout under way

SS-Tiger-101-06.jpg

on a side note,,The Allied forces may have advanced on the bucket line and when finding out that they had been "Had" they kicked them over in anger hence the saying "Kick the bucket",.,,,maybe.

[jarndice]

Tim I wonder can I get it in a bottle or is it home brew? I worry about some of the members of this Forum, why is it only me that is sane? What with the last unpleasantness being rewritten to include the until now onknown facts of the importance of BUCKETS in a major battle and William Shakespeare holidaying in the Hawaiian Islands, I only came here to learn the difference between BSF and BSW what went wrong? shaun

[HERMAN BIX]

"standard fine V standard whitworth eh mate................
one seizes and breaks off under the spanner and the other is so odd a man cant even find a spanner to fit

Buckets..................on German tanks.

All version of theory.

mine are ;

- to aid in the recovery & delivery of water for cooling systems.(primary)
- to aid in the recovery & delivery of water for crew comfort including cooking, washing etc.
- to aid in the recovery & delivery of other fluids as required to keep the machine and crew in the fight.(this includes fuel)
- to aid in the collection & disposal of 'other' miscellaneous by-products of combat exposure as required.

I ve been to Germany & in the areas I was in there seemed to be a tangible array of both plain and enamel/painted buckets just around.
The photographic evidence and seemingly normal fitment of one or more buckets to German tanks should suffice to say that these were actually standard and vital operational hardware................I draw a comparrison between the Swiss army knife and a bucket.
A man only misses it when its not handy
And bloody handy & socially acceptable as they are(not to many get arrested for offensive weapon charges with S.A. knives that I'm aware of), a Swiss Army knife DOES NOT COME WITH A BUCKET
So, on this tangent, I can conclude that the Swiss, while very clever and posessed of extraordinary eyesight for watch making, are useless at making "fold out" buckets.

[HERMAN BIX]

my first one

[HERMAN BIX]

the next one................as yet not 'in character' but will be at the end.