55 gal drum of WW

[joe4711]

Found a scrapyard with a 80% full 55 gal. drum of WW, anyone want to venture a guess as to the weight of such.

My guess is about 2000lbs but I could be WAY of the mark.

Sorry no prizes for the best guess.

Joe M.

[jsizemore]

The last 55gal drum of ww I bought weighed 1800 lbs.

[AndyC]

Wow - no guesses here, but man - what a find! :D

[KohlerK91]

1540lbs

[Ole]

Figure a full 5 gallon bucket weighs around 135-140.

137/5 = 27.4 lbs/gallon

55 gallons * 80% = 44 gallons

Therefore my guess is 27.5 * 44 = 1205lbs + whatever the empty barrel weighs. :)

[leadbutt]

need me to carry it to the truck for ya?

[DukeInFlorida]

If it's at a scrap yard, they will be able to tell you the exact weight.
You're not gonna bring it home in the trunk of your buick.

[GaryN]

I was going to say 1200 to 1300 lbs. Too much to lift.

[Beau Cassidy]

I am pretty sure this topic has been beat to a pulp. The search engine should enlighten you more.

[Defcon-One]

I gotta jump in!

1,650 * .80 = 1,320 lbs.

[geargnasher]

Whatever it weighs, it will weigh considerably less after I haul it to your house for you!

Gear

[GRUMPA]

You ever notice that when people get those really great finds that the location is somewhat lacking. I guess if I ever came across a deal like that I wouldn't advertise it much either.

[runfiverun]

wouldn't matter much as i'd have allready got it..
1200 sounds reasonable and 40 for the bbl.

[bumpo628]

You ever notice that when people get those really great finds that the location is somewhat lacking. I guess if I ever came across a deal like that I wouldn't advertise it much either.

Yep, you take your location off your profile before starting a thread like this!
:razz:

[zuke]

Also depend's on how much water's at the bottom of the drum.
I just smelted down a couple really nice,clean looking 5 gallon pail's.One of them had about 2 inch's of water at the bottom. I put the wet WW on the top of the WW I stacked into the melt pot. Give's the water a chance to evapourate before melting.
When somebody say's their ready for melting,double check.

[Sasquatch-1]

My question is are they letting it go and did you buy? Second question (and you don't have to answer if you don't want to) HOW MUCH? [smilie=w:

[joe4711]

No I haven't bought it yet, and that is why I wanted a better weight estimate than my guess.

Price is .60c per lb,so if I take say 1000 lb I'm looking at $600.00 . I'm not doing any compettitive shooting at this time and at 64yrs of age this would probably last me two life times.

Sooo, I've been thinking maybe I could melt this down and sold most of it to finance maybe some other shooting irons.

However, if I look at the logistics it does not make sence.
1000 lbs of lead at $600.00 Melted to probably +- 900 lbs selling at a $1.00 per lb
gives me the great sum of $300.00 gross profit LESS money for fuel, gass, time spent for sorting, melting, packaging, etc,etc.

If I buy $600.00 worth of boolits I could probaly get about 10m or more which will
last me a long time.

I guess I will just buy 200 lb for casting for my self.

I take my hat off to people who sell lead for a $1.00 per lb shipping included.

[zxcvbob]

60¢ is too high. Point out some of the steel weights and valve stems in there, then offer 45¢

The people selling lead for $1 (shipped) didn't pay 60¢ a pound for it unless it was clean and ready to pour into ingots. Most probably got free lead that needed a lot of work.

[JohnFM]

Last WW I got ran about 25% waste.

[clintsfolly]

The last barrel of WW I never got on a scale but REALLY sank the back of my new 79 ford f150!!!! One of the best find for free I ever got just had to "Get them out of here before I close!!! Smelted,cast sold some and got a new XP100 7br. Clint

[dRok]

Ive been paying .30/lb for WW that are about 90% lead, that seems quite high. If they were large weights and no FE/ZN or other trash in the barrel Id consider .50/lb, just to pick up a large quantity at once.