Buckets breaking?

[HayleyandBob]

Are anybody elses buckets (tubtrugs inparticular) becoming extemly brittle in these freezing temperature? Picked one up this mornign and the handles just snapped off!

Im running out of buckets to carry water from the house to yard!

 

[Dubsie]

We stack ours in the conservatory (where the hot water tap is). I'm amazed how much the ponies drink, but I guess it's all the hay being so much drier than grass

 

[kerilli]

this always happens... tbh my tubtrugs are fine (so far), it's the cheapo versions that aren't...

 

[*hic*]

Yep - they do become very brittle. The recycled rubber ones that are far more expensive really do work better in this sort of weather.

btw - could you do something to reduce the siz of your sig? It takes up most of my screen and is way outside the recommended sizes. Ta

 

[HayleyandBob]

even my real tubtrug broke after last nights -17C or watever it was

Its now in several peices

 

[HayleyandBob]

Jemima - me really?

its tiny on mine! sorry! *scuttles off to sort it*

 

[lukeylou]

mine are ok, but i do see the odd broken handle lying around the yard so it must be happening to other people.

 

[miller]

Our cheapies have been fine but real tub trugs have gone very brittle - they are older though

 

[sugarlump121]

Yes! Im not happy, Ive broke 3 feed/ water buckets in 2 days, only found out how this morning as I broke the 3rd...

hitting the wall with it to get the snow off...

I thought they should cope being 'flexible' and all that?!

 

[HayleyandBob]

yes i wold have thought so ! my dad has driven over one of them with the tractor and it survived, my horse sat on his and it survived..but it snapped the moment i picked it up this morning and it had nothing in it !

 

[H's mum]

Two of my tubtrugs have split - from handle to handle, all the way through - So I have two halves held together by brittle handles!

Funnily enough the cheap buy asda ones have been great - whereas the expensive horse version ones are the ones that have given way!

Kate x

 

[Laafet]

LOL and I remember going to the BETA Trade Fair, 3 years ago and telling the guys on the tub trug stand that their buckets do shatter in the cold but they said that I was mistaken, that was after a cold winter in Hampshire where my tubtrugs did indeed shatter in the cold weather there, so I am not surprised that this is happening now!