Now I have my new table saw I decided it was time to do something about the fun of jarring honey from a bucket, particularly as the level gets near the bottom. So I made a bespoke “bucket tipper”.
The platform is hinged, and the two diagonal battens are arranged so the bucket hangs sufficiently far over the front edge that the tap and jar being filled easily clear the tipper at all reasonable angles of tilt. The platform is some scrap 18mm ply and the sides are some offcuts of something like a 6″x2″. The rest was just whatever I could find lying about.
The lower section has a number of cross-pieces spaced to hold a wedge (seen here lying flat).
As the wedge is moved forward the upper platform tips forward more without the risk of falling off whatever pile of books or other temporary wedges have been used to prop up the back.
Finally I added some clips to keep the entire thing closed when I was moving it around. It’s no fun having something like that snap closed on your fingers because you’ve not realised they’re in the way.