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lookit how the handles are attached to the frame. Probably rated at no more than 150lbs. See how it's bending inwards?
Darn! I still woulda been FOURTH PLACE!
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11/02/2017 9:01 pm
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Possibly a peck of pickled pennies that Peter Piper picked.
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11/02/2017 9:53 pm
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 I googled "how big is a bushel bucket" what came up was, 1 bushel bucket holds 9.037 U.S. Gallons. Perhaps that's why a lot of the answers were 400+ pounds.  |
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Being I started this I'm going to build a wooden box to specs of the capacity of a US bushel. I need to make it strong enough to lift and weigh it. My scale is good for 6000lbs so I'm good there. The inside measurements I'm using are
12 inches by 12 inches by 14.93 inches high, that equals 2150.42 cubic inches OR 35.24 liters - 1 USA Bushel
Correct my measurements if I'm wrong.
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chadcoins- your one crazy canuck, eh! And that's an awful lot of coins to be tossing around. Good luck with the rest of your experiment.
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The inside measurements I'm using are
12 inches by 12 inches by 14.93 inches high, that equals 2150.42 cubic inches OR 35.24 liters - 1 USA Bushel
Correct my measurements if I'm wrong. 2,149.92 cubic inches for your box measurements but, close enough for me!  Quote:
what came up was, 1 bushel bucket holds 9.037 U.S. Gallons It gave me 9.309 gallons. This may be of interest as the U.S. and Imperial bushel are different:  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Any way the pail measures
- 14 inches dia at the top
- 9 inches high
- 11 inches dia at the base Based on these measurements, using the formula for a Conical Frustum (a bucket), your bucket contains about 1,110 cubic inches (or 4.8 U.S. gallons, or 18 liters, or 4 Imperial gallons). The 130 lb weight of the pennies is in line with that volume. This is easily settled. Dump out the pennies and start filling the bucket with known quantities of water until it is full. edited to correct "square inches" to "cubic inches". Edited by nss-52
11/04/2017 08:47 am
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We used to pick apples and veggies at the farm growing up and those dimensions are way way smaller than the wood/wire bushel baskets that we put things in. Those dimensions look like a "peck"
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Those dimensions look like a "peck" It must be 2 pecks because a peck is about 2.3 U.S. gallons (537 cubic inches). The dimensions quoted produce about 1110 cubic inches. |
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I believe the wooden bushel that you use to see apples or other fruits marketed in will hold 70 pounds, but with pennies density, my guess it would be close to 500 pounds.
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I believe the wooden bushel that you use to see apples or other fruits marketed in will hold 70 pounds, but with pennies density, my guess it would be close to 500 pounds. How much, do you think, would a 50 gallon oil drum full of pennies weigh? |
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Cool.... now let's see a deadlift with that penny box!!  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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..and I need some pretty copper gutters..  |
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