Does Anyone Know What a 55 Gal Drum Full to Top Weighs
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Depending on the coal type (nut, pea, stove, rice, buckwheat) a 5 gallon bucket could weigh anywhere from 38 to 45 pounds, but I think the generally accepted average is 40 pounds. I gather and move most of my coal around in these babies!
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I'll go with the 400-420# number.. that is what I weighed out when I was using a 55 gal. barrel for my coal hopper to the Axeman Anderson 260 boiler.
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that gets me to thinking. this year I bought 4 tons of rice and I was expecting to atleast need 5 barrels (55 gal ) per ton. the person I bought coal from said no its more like 4. He filled 16 barrles and charged me for 4 ton. think I amy have gotten ripped?
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Take a five gallon bucket weigh it, fill it with coal, weigh it , subtract the two and you will have your weight for 5 gallons, multiply times 11 and you will have your weight per barrel, multiply times 4 and you will see what your 'ton' actually weighed..
Greg L
Not all coal weighs the same..
GL
Greg L
Not all coal weighs the same..
GL
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It is possible but I don't think so. The smaller the coal size, the more that fits in a given volume. I have built a bunch of "mini" coal bins. Each one holds about 14 5 gallon buckets of nut anthracite. I recent came into 1.5 tons of buckwheat, which is size wise between rice and pea. I emptied one of those smaller bins, and discovered that the same volume now holds 16 buckets of buckwheat as opposed to 14 buckets of nut. Same volume, different weight!jimbo970 wrote:that gets me to thinking. this year I bought 4 tons of rice and I was expecting to atleast need 5 barrels (55 gal ) per ton. the person I bought coal from said no its more like 4. He filled 16 barrles and charged me for 4 ton. think I amy have gotten ripped?
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You need 5 drums per ton. Rice coal in general will have them filled to within about 3 or 4 inches of the top.
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I get coal in barrrels. each one weighs aprox. 400 lbs when filled. 5 barrels to a ton.
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My Summit rice weighs 39 pounds for 5 gallons, which is a measured 1-3/4 inch down from the top of my 5 gallon blacktop pails.
I use a plastic 55 gallon drum for my bin and I fill it with 50# bags of damp rice coal. 400 pounds of coal easily fits and you can put a lid on it, I can get 450 pounds in mine but the top is heaped up like a pile of birdseed.
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If you are using the blue Plastick drums there are 53 gal not 55 gal . The Metal drums are 55 gal. I have 4 blue Plastick
53gal Drums The one I use for a Hopper will hold 12 40 lb buckets 480lbs with a mound in the center Buck & Rice Mixed .
But Depending on high the auger goes in the side. You can loose 70 to 80 lbs of coal because if the auger is to high it
can't pick up all the coal that is below the auger & tube .
53gal Drums The one I use for a Hopper will hold 12 40 lb buckets 480lbs with a mound in the center Buck & Rice Mixed .
But Depending on high the auger goes in the side. You can loose 70 to 80 lbs of coal because if the auger is to high it
can't pick up all the coal that is below the auger & tube .
I called my coal man this morning to let him know that the concensus is 5 55gal drums filed to top = 1 ton. He said different coal from different mines ways different? Like reading rice may weigh more or less than blaschak?? Does this sound right? I want to believe him. He said his scales are tested every year and he weighs empty dump befre filling and re-weighing but 4 barrels vs 5 still doesnt sound right to me. The barrels were eac filled to the tippy top though. He said some 55 gal drums are actually larger too. I have the white clear drums that liquid detergent came in and had to cut the molded tops off.
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440 pounds when I use to fill 55 gallon steel drums with nut coal.