Five gallons of dirt, shoveled into a bucket from a particular pile and then tamped down hard with a length of 4X4, weighs just about exactly 75 pounds. Just so you know.
I could tell you why I needed to know, but then I'd have to kill you. All I can say is that sometimes chores get weird.
How'd you weigh it? Bathroom scale?
ReplyDeleteFunny you should ask!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a bathroom scale, and neither do the two other neighbors I asked.
We ended up building a scale and weighing a calibrated gallon of tamped dirt against two gallons of water, known weight 16.66 pounds plus tare. Then I just calculated the total weight by putting the dirt back in the original bucket, tamping the whole thing down, and measuring the volume with a tape measure. It's not completely exact, but surprisingly close.