Re: How do we measure a bushel?
- From: jimp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:55:02 GMT
Petrovitch <Tanton.Gibbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've always been perplexed by the measurement of a bushel. I don't
really understand what it is. I always thought it was a physical
measurement. Here is my problem: a bushel of soybeans weighs 60
pounds; the cup weight of a bushel of wheat is 60 pound; rice is 45
pounds; and common oats is 33 pounds per bushel. As a farmer I know by
way of empirical evicence that if I fill a hopper bottom trailer to the
max with wheat the scale weight (truck, trailer, and grain) would be
about 110,000 pounds, or 1,100 bushels. But when the same trailer is
filled to the max with oats the scale weight is less than 80,000 pounds
and the capacity jumps to about 1,400 bushels.
Why is the same physical measurement of capacity not the same measure
of bushels? How does a load hold 1,100 bushels of wheat and 1,400
bushels of oats? Is there some formula to predict the number of
bushels in a constant cubic area? Is it dependent upon density?
Obviously, oats stack better than rice; and rice stacks better than
wheat; wheat stacks better than soybeans. But what does this have to do
with capacity in a cubic area?
Well, everyone knows a bushel is 4 pecks, but what is the real size
of a 2X4?
--
Jim Pennino
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