Originally Posted by
treebound
It might be interesting if you could find or make a lid for the side boxes where the handles of the buckets would rotate up and work as lid holders somehow. Not sure if that makes any sense, and a google image search is failing me, but I can see it in my mind what I'm trying to suggest. It would keep the handles from rattling and bouncing, and there should be enough "spring" in the handles to snap into a recess in the lids to keep everything fairly intact.
Yea, I actually thought about doing something of the sort, when the handles go all the way up they are like 5-6 inches above the top of the bucket though. This interferes with the tent (it will be perpendicular across the rack along with my bed/yoga mat). I like the idea of having rigid caps on the buckets but I don't have the material or money. Thanks for the idea.
Diagram of my interpretation of what your idea:
diagram.JPG
eh?