No, provide the bucket and lease it to a small boy on contract. Then, get him to buy the bucket and more buckets on his own for future work at your place on short term contracts. When he buys them all, let his contracts run out and buy the buckets at 30p on the dollar and start over.

Hey, the big lumber companies do it all the time here. Of course, the "buckets" cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the "small boys" have families and farms to lose when the go bankrupt, but, golly gee gosh... money is money, eh?