Cut part of the lip off the bottom of the food storage bucket to flatten it ... Just make a couple of notches on the top of a 5-gallon bucket. Set the pipe in the notches, and you have a stable ...
[Figjam] took a 5 gallon bucket, wrapped the inside with two layers of swamp cooler matting, made a loop of hose above it connected to a submersible pump and ran a fan out the top with piping.