Mighty Tuff 5 Gallon / 21 Pound Pet Food Storage Container, Pack of 2 with Metal Handle and Airtight Lid to Lock in Freshness, Light Grey Base & Dark Grey Lid

Work great for bird food and deer food storage! Keeps everything dry!

These buckets are great! Durable and the perfect size for my chicken feed. Keeps it fresh and keeps the pests out! I tried ordering other brands but these are definitely the best for this price point.

I ordered these a year ago to keep charcoal for our grill in. They were significantly less expensive than containers for that purpose and have done very well. We live where it can get rather humid, I've left these outside closed up for over a week by accident and the charcoal inside was dry as a bone during a hot humid summer week and maybe even some rain, I don't fully recall if it rained that week but regardless they did very well. Whatever your going put in these, if you get the top on right you should be in good shape.

But once they are attached, these are quite nice. I have to tell this no matter how silly it sounds. I finally got a piece of 2x4 out of the garage, laid the ring on top of the bucket, put the 2x4 over that to protect it, and then whacked the holy heck out of it with my hammer to get it on the bucket. And that finally worked. So there it is. You will NOT be able to just snap it on. But these will now work for what I wanted, to keep dry goods sealed.

I promise, you’re wasting your money! This is the SECOND time I’ve purchased these buckets and had to return them due to warped lids and messed up buckets. It’s almost like they’ve already been returned by someone else. I haven’t even received the replacement buckets for my first order, but I already know I’ll be returning those, too. The first order I got looked like the bucket had burn marks around the rim. There were little holes in the rim part of the gamma lid. I was going to use these for my long term storage, so I expected a quality product that was going to keep my food safe. These are NOT the answer. For the amount spent on food to store, I better be able to do it and not have to be concerned about the product it is put into. I’ll post pictures of what these buckets looked like when I removed them from the box. The gamma lids, or rings I suppose, are so warped, the lids don’t even seal properly. There was also a small hole on one of the rims; which at first, I could not for the life of me get the lid off! I would HIGHLY recommend just spending a little extra for QUALITY buckets and lids. I am truly baffled at how many “good” reviews this product has.

We have a very persistent raccoon that has been making a mess in the barn trying to get into animal feed. I have the goat and chicken food in big metal trash cans that the racoon can't open, but that was overkill for the feral cat and wild bird food. So I tried smaller metal cans, but the racoon can open those. Finally I put these buckets with the lid spun closed inside the smaller metal cans, and the racoon is going away frustrated.

So the lid was stuck on the bucket pretty tight. I used a flathead screwdriver lightly between top edge and its bucket frame evenly all the way around as if I were trying to open a new can of paint. Afterwards, I lifted and tried twisting it again and it came off fine. I wiped it out and left it opened to air out a little. Since then I tried to make sure its firmly on airtight but not overly tight. I really like it and it works as intended.

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