I get my water buckets with lids usually from grocery stores at the cake baking department. The buckets are food grade buckets with tight sealing lids. FREE! I give a Clorox wipe and rinse thoroughly. They are great for long trips when you want stop and cook something on your portable gas stove, water for your pets, cooking a quick soup, etc! Usually get the free 5 or 3.5 gallon and the lids are always in great shape. Need a new one? Stop by Safeway, Krogers, Walmart, Sam’s, or CostCo!
This is great to know! Anyone who has ever been stuck in her/his car for many hours knows the importance of having potable water. I'll be looking for this
Can you do a follow up after a Nye county summer in the vehicle? I've had plastic water vessels bake along the air pocket portion after a summer or two. It gets brittle enough that when the container moves, shifts and spills, or I try to pour they leak from the mild seam... and it just disappoints I've been lucky enough it wasn't an emergency but had it been, I'd be stuck in a bad spot. Happy New Year!
That's a nice size container. I like the large opening to get inside and clean. My only concern is the spigot getting damaged. It doesn't look like it's heavy duty. Happy New Year, get better, and have a safe 2024.
I like the large opening,easier to fill. 2 handles,easier to lift and carry also to tie it down. Hope your arm is better. I fell a couple weeks ago with help from my dog(malamute).
Here in Nye county should be a great asset. Would love to meet up? I'm at wild side tavern on Sundays. Not this Sunday New years eve but I will be next. Rhinestones on Wednesday
Any water jug that stores in your vehicle long term is going to suffer from chafing from perfectly normal vibration from driving around. the thinner the plastic, the faster it will wear through. Stupid simple hack is to just put a couple layers of duct tape, whatever is cheap, on the bottom and anyplace you have it strapped or bungi corded against. If you have a regular place the thing is stored, line the inside of the holder with a few scraps of carpet, carpet store remnants and offcuts. Inspect the tape/carpet every few months and replace as needed. Better is a metal can that the inside is coated to be safe for potable water. Ideally an actual WW2 german or british jerrycan in good shape. The american ones were actually poor copies of the german design.
looks to me like it's totally dark nside so light couldn't penetrate.. also good for a bugout location. I don't have a vehicle to put this in but I probably could get 3 or 4 of these in my collapsible wagon
It hasn't yet, its a bit warmer in the vehicle than outside plus where I am we never get down that low, maybe a week or so of temps in the 30s but that's it.
These are nice and i keep one in my semi for drinking water. but i still prefer my steel jurry cans in my car kit. Found a set years ago at a camping place specificly for water that were also advertised as safe to boil water inside of. Something i do once a year or so just to kill anything trying to grow inside after the typical bleach then vinigar treatment.
