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At home, when everything is at hand, everyday problems are solved easier, which cannot be said about the bivouac life of a person on a hike - be it a tourist, a geologist, a surveyor. Here, preliminary preparation often helps out, or resourcefulness on the spot, ingenuity, so necessary in the so-called field conditions.

When going on a hiking trip, you have to subject to strict selection all the things prepared for this - after all, as the popular song among "hikers" says: "because there is not enough space in the backpack."

This is especially true for large items, such as bucket. However, for seasoned tourists, the bucket may turn out to be ... flat, and at the right time - again voluminous, in which at a halt it will be possible to bring even more water than usual.

Folding canvas bucket: 1 - body; 2 - spacer ring; 3 bail buckets

Making a body pattern by applying to a metal bucket: 1 - tarpaulin flap; 2 - bucket-template; 3 - hairpins (pins)

The fact is that it is not metal, but specially made for hiking - from a thin tarpaulin (or from a similar waterproof fabric). It is known that the tarpaulin, after getting wet, practically does not let water through, which makes it possible to deliver it in such a bucket even from a source not located nearby.

Preparation of initial parts

To make such a bucket is not difficult and accessible to almost every "hiker". It is cut out of two flaps: separately for the hull and bottom. Their dimensions are selected depending on the desired capacity, that is, the final volume of the manufactured bucket.

The easiest way to cut out the body is to place the fabric over a suitable metal bucket and secure it with pins, with a slight allowance for the seams. The bottom can also be marked in place by placing a flap under the bottom of a metal bucket and also leaving a narrow strip of seam allowance along the contour.

The sequence of the seam: 1 - a simple line; 2 - bending the seam allowance; 3 - laying a two-layer seam; 4 - firmware "shirt" seam

The next blanks will be a spacer (upper) metal ring and a bow to it. Both parts are made of wire of suitable stiffness. At the same time, on opposite sides of the ring, "ears" are made under the bow, and at the ends of the latter, reciprocal hooks are bent under them.

Manufacturing and assembly

The sewing of the canvas bucket can be done in two ways. The first one is for those who have experience working on a sewing machine: it will not be difficult for them to first stitch the body pattern separately, and then attach the bottom to the resulting cylinder. However, it is not scary to take on this and those who do not have such experience, since you can do without a typewriter, using just a large ("gypsy") needle with a strong ("harsh") thread and a slightly different sequence of connecting blanks. Its essence is that to simplify the work, you can begin to sew the bottom of the body workpiece with the bottom gradually, "in a circle", and then make a vertical seam of the bucket body. This sequence is suitable for both hand and machine sewing.

Having completed a simple seam, it is converted into a so-called "shirt", double, which in this case provides a more reliable seal. To do this, the seam allowance is folded over to obtain a double layer and stitched again.

Having completed the manufacture of the bucket body, proceed to assemble it with metal parts. A spacer ring is preliminarily made by measuring its length along the perimeter of the body neck and twisting the ends of the wire (or "hiding" them in a small sleeve of a suitable diameter, crimping it to secure the inserted ends).

On the ring from diametrically opposite sides, bends-ears are prepared for the shackle. The latter is made of the same (or thicker) wire, with annular bends at the ends, which are connected to the ears of the spacer ring.

The spacer ring is now to be connected to the finished housing. To do this, the upper edge of the latter is bent onto the spacer ring and stitched with a two-track seam. The finished bucket is ready to be folded into a hiking-friendly flat pack.

Author: V.Revsky

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