I agree.. will 11 buckets of coal fill a 55 gallon drum exactly? Or by Larry's definition of a 5 gallon pail being 5.5 gallons, it would take 10Rob R. wrote:Doesn't the size of the container compared to the coal have an impact on this? e.g. If you used 3/4" pipe instead of a pail the nut coal wouldn't fit at all. I suspect the closer in size the coal is to the container, the less dense it will pack...to a point at least.
Sure, that would tell you exactly the volume of space left among the coal.. Good idea. Messy, but clever..Rob R. wrote:In my mind the water would fill the voids and provide another means of comparison.