Show your bucket!

[jarndice]

Hi Herman, hope the family are all well, as to BSF/BSW when I was learning the trade of vehicle mechanic a senior fitter told me the "B" did not stand for BRITISH but "BUGGERATION" and over the years I can only agree, the darling picture on your sweet little pail (bucket) would tell me your thinking of a new paint scheme could well be PINK!!! Do say yes I could do with a laugh shaun

[ALPHA]

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.

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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

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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.

AH... ...Historical note... furthered by suppositional reasoning.....I think we are on the right track to solving the purpose of the bucket

ALPHA

[ALPHA]

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

To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the BUCKET...For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil....Must give us pause.....the BUCKET forges on

ALPHA

[ALPHA]

my first one

the next one................

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

BUCKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fancy Buckets to boot
Makes me wonder.... as I find it interesting that the BUCKETs where placed in places where they would meet less harm or damage ....hardly ever seen hung on the side of a tank or off the front where they could incur a bullet ..or fall and get crushed....Was there greater importance placed on the non-assuming BUCKET???????????
Perhaps collectors of German memorabilia have been collecting the wrong items... as there is a secret to the BUCKET...there must have been many made... Why are there no remnants or traces of them.... Like Bigfoot...photographed but not yet found.... The BUCKET must be researched further


ALPHA

[mdkboggle]

DSC_0398 by mdkboggle, on Flickr

Naaa it cant be,can it,,,,omg,maybe it is,,,,, a BUCKET,,,,,,run for cover,,,,Hang on,that is not a Panzer it is hanging on is it?

[brizo58]

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Here's one!!!!!!!!

[brizo58]

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Oh and another!!!!

[brizo58]

[attachment=0]image.jOh and yet another one

[HERMAN BIX]

I even had one in my old '73 short WB Landcruiser. Jerry cans as well, but most times the bucket was far more versatile and fitted anywhere I needed it to.
Just seemed wrong to cart a jerry can empty, but a bucket- no worries.
Used mine for cleaning mud out of the radiator, blood from the goats or what have you that we were culling at the time, used it once to catch as much diesel from a punctured fuel tank on a mates Pajero so we could,so at least we could get him running through the tough bits without towing(now that was a long day). New Zealand had plenty of water sources, just needed to carry it.
Never cooked in that one, but did shell fish in a mates regularly.
they are handy ...............come on Switzerland- figure out the folding bucket !!!!!!!!!

[ALPHA]

Chow BUCKETS


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