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Bootstrap subscribers get a five-gallon bucket and lid.

Maria Rodale: Got Dirt? Give Thanks Maria Rodale 2011

Bootstrap subscribers get a five-gallon bucket and lid.

Maria Rodale: Got Dirt? Give Thanks Maria Rodale 2011

The prisoners had used a cut-away five-gallon gas can attached to a 60-foot-long rope to haul the sandy soil out of the tunnel.

Al Eisele: History Repeats Itself with Afghanistan Prison Escape Al Eisele 2011

It is just an big old company that holds a huge pile of assets, has no clear idea of what it's trying to do with them, and is thrashing around like a ten-gallon shark in a five-gallon bucket, red ink spouting from each of its bazillion gills.

P. J. O'Rourke has Competition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The prisoners had used a cut-away five-gallon gas can attached to a 60-foot-long rope to haul the sandy soil out of the tunnel.

Al Eisele: History Repeats Itself with Afghanistan Prison Escape Al Eisele 2011

Inside, they discovered three canisters of propane like those used for barbecue grills, two five-gallon cans of gasoline, consumer-grade fireworks — the apparent source of the “pops” — and two clocks with batteries, the mayor said.

NYC Bomb Threat « 2010

"Either that boat is a daisy, or we've got a five-gallon coal-oil can fast to our keel!"

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

The FBI's car bomb – a 1993 Pathfinder fitted with 250 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel, three 25-pound propane tanks and two five-gallon gasoline canisters – blew up with a force that ripped the sport utility vehicle in half.

Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad Gets Life Sentence AP 2010

Ealing, who weighed 420 pounds, had his fist elbow deep in a five-gallon tin of stale Christmas popcorn.

Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

Lori Lenz of Deep River, Conn., arrived at John Winthrop Junior High School late Tuesday afternoon, with two sons in tow, hoping to fill a five-gallon jug with drinking water.

Relief Crews Tally Damages Jerry A. DiColo 2011