A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail .
6-410: A helicopter bucket or helibucket is a specialized bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting . The design of the buckets allows the helicopter to hover over a water source—such as a lake , river , pond , or tank —and lower the bucket into the water to refill it. This allows the helicopter crew to operate the bucket in remote locations without
12-417: A lunch bucket. Buckets can be repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, amongst other uses. Buckets are also repurposed for the use of long term food storage by survivalists . When in reference to a shipping container , the term "pail" is used as a technical term, specifically referring to a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid, which
18-473: Is determined by the lifting capacity of the helicopter required to utilise each version. Some buckets can include fire retardant foam or the ability to pump water from the bucket into an internal tank. Smaller collapsible buckets can use water sources as shallow as 1 foot (30.5 cm). Worldwide, the term monsoon bucket is widely used and accepted as a generic term. In the United States, this type of bucket
24-415: Is officially referred to as a helibucket . The trademarked Bambi Bucket is also commonly used informally by firefighting crews to describe buckets developed by other manufacturers. A number of companies produce buckets, including A-Flex Technology, SEI Industries, IMSNZ Ltd., Absolute Fire Solutions, Rural Fire Service, and Aerial Fire Control Pty. Kawak Aviation Technologies, Bucket A bucket
30-532: Is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container . In non-technical usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably. A number of bucket types exist, used for a variety of purposes. Though most of these are functional purposes, a number, including those constructed from precious metals, are used for ceremonial purposes. Common types of bucket and their adjoining purposes include: Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or
36-509: The need to return to a permanent operating base, reducing the time between successive drops. Each bucket has a release valve on the bottom which is controlled by the helicopter crew. When the helicopter is in position, the crew releases the water to extinguish or suppress the fire below. Each release of the water is referred to as a drop. Buckets can be collapsible or rigid and vary in capacity from 72 to 2,600 U.S. gallons (60 to 2,165 imperial gallons; 273 to 9,842 liters). The size of each bucket
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