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SmartPak Insulated Water Bucket Cover -5 Gallon

Name: SmartPak Insulated Water Bucket Cover -5 Gallon
Brand: SmartPak
SKU: 23489
Price: 49.95 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7647 (51 reviews)

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Why We Love This

The new and improved version of our original best-selling SmartPak Insulated Water Bucket Cover! Updated features include a stiff, sewn-in foam bottom that makes it easier to load your buckets into the cover. This also helps the bucket to remain upright and level when placed on the ground, making it quick and easy to move your buckets around without having to remove the cover.

This bucket cover also shares many of your favorite features from in the original Insulated Water Bucket Cover! Insulated with 600g of fill, the cover extends the length of time that water takes to freeze, ending the ice breaking madness and encouraging healthy hydration in cold weather. Eliminating the need for heated water buckets, this cover is a cost-conscious solution to frozen water buckets. Made from durable, waterproof fabric that can stand up to rough horse play and life in the barn. Fits standard 5-gallon buckets.

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Favorite Features:

Updated version of our original best-selling SmartPak Insulated Water Bucket Cover
Foam bottom allows for easy on/off and helps buckets remain level when placed on the ground
600g of fill insulates buckets to end the ice breaking madness
Eliminates the need for heated water buckets
Made from durable, waterproof fabric

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Fits standard 5-gallon buckets

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SmartPak Insulated Water Bucket Cover -5 Gallon is rated 3.8 out of 5 by 51.

Rated 5 out of 5 by LoveMorganHorses from Definitely Makes a Difference I was wondering about how good these would work and then a lady at one of the barns I work at brought one in to try it. There are two water buckets in each stall; she put one on one of them. Her stall is an end stall next to the big sliding door (so not the warmest stall by far). It's been low teens at night and the one bucket without the insulated bucket cover is frozen and the one with the cover is not frozen at all! Sold me on them, so I am buying two for my mare.

Date published: 2025-01-17

Rated 5 out of 5 by Ansley from Oh yeah, they work! Bought these during the black friday sale as a part of my winter prep. I was a little sceptical of wether they would work or not, but they hold up with the georgia winter so far! It took a minute for my horses to figure out how to drink out of them with the lid/cover.

Date published: 2025-01-13

Rated 4 out of 5 by rb24 from Insulated Bucket Covers Bought 3 of these 6 years ago after moving to MN. Heated water buckets make me nervous in a large barn with horses. Bring hot water to the boarding facility where I am at now. Unless it is a polar vortex, the most I have had of ice is a very very thin layer which is not a problem for a horse to break through.

Date published: 2024-12-28

Rated 4 out of 5 by Wendaeho from It makes a difference. I have two water buckets in my boys stall. I put the “coozie” on one bucket and not the other to test it out. Yes it does make a difference, one bucket was almost frozen solid and the “coozie” covered one had just a lite skim. My one complaint/suggestion would be it needs a handle on the bottom to help dump out old water.

Date published: 2024-12-28

Rated 3 out of 5 by Crystal from I have purchased this bucket cover before and still use it. I must say the one I just purchased doesn’t seem to insulate as well. Both bucket covers are used in stalls across from each other and the new one always seems to freeze over.

Date published: 2024-12-25

Rated 5 out of 5 by Kalley from THIRD SEASON I am going on my THIRD Minnesota winter season with the merlot colored bucket insulator. It does not fully prevent water from freezing, however i have never had to break ice or ever felt like my horse was not able to break the ice with his nose. Huge benefit of not having to use a heated water bucket. When it gets really cold there is a small thin layer of ice, but the barn buckets without using this insulated cover are FROZEN solid. I will be buying another. Ive washed mine in the washing machine, dries super easy and no issues.

Date published: 2024-11-21

Rated 2 out of 5 by Chilly from Design flaws are disappointing Water buckets in our Wisconsin barn stalls freeze when the temps drop to single digits and below zero. Bought these to at least slow down the rate of freezing. Unfortunately the design has a few flaws that should be remedied. 1. We can't use the top piece that covers part of the bucket top because we use bucket holders that rest on the back lip of the pail. The top piece doesn't have a cut out space to allow that. 2. The two skinny straps on the sides of the bottom of the pail cover are too fragile to hold the bucket cover on very well. Furthermore, the velcro on one end of the strap is the wrong texture to connect to the velcro on the side of the cover. The straps also didn't line up well with the handle of the bucket on 1 of the 3 covers we purchased. And, the skinny straps are not sown on well. My friend pulled one of them off as she was putting the cover on a pail the first time. Disappointing. We made some more robust straps with the proper velcro end so we could use the covers. They do seem to keep the water in our buckets from freezing in single digit weather. If I buy bucket covers again, I'll buy the insulated plastic ones.

Date published: 2024-01-25

Rated 5 out of 5 by Lynn from Simple bucket ice protection I bought one last year and another this year. So far they have worked well for me down to in the 20s (degrees F) in the barn with no ice what so ever in the morning. However, I do use them with RUBBER 5 gallon buckets which I think helps and I use warm water that I bring from my house to fill them up in the evening, which also helps. When it gets below 20 but above 10 they have a thin bit of ice, again using warm tap water. When it is below 10 the ice is a lot thicker, but not solid so I can just dump it out and start over. That is a benefit of the rubber buckets too, is that if it does freeze solid the ice still comes out easily with out cracking like plastic. Neither of my horses have any problem drinking through the cover opening of the top. Probably not going to help at subzero at all, but for just below freezing it works well.

Date published: 2024-01-22

Rated 5 out of 5 by Jim G from Works great I hang two buckets overnight one with one without. The one without has thick ice, the one with had an ice film at 20 degrees.

Date published: 2024-01-22

Rated 5 out of 5 by Tljumper from They help a lot in really cold weather We have used these covers this week in the barn. It is unusually cold with lows down to 9 degrees. With four horses and the barn doors closed at night there was only a small about of ice on the top of the buckets.

Date published: 2024-01-20

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