Number of Ingots In A 5 Gal Bucket

[jonp]

I ran across a 5 Gal bucket of Lee 1lb ingots but don't know how many are in it. For those of you who keep ingots that way or have thrown them into one about how many fit in one if filled near the top? 50? 100? Close is good enough.

[rockrat]

Wouldn't be suprised at 150 lbs

[rancher1913]

I have never been able to fill them more than 1/3 full, could not move them otherwise. the 150 guess sounds close to me.

[imashooter2]

Full? At least 200. I always put 100 in, duck walked the bucket to its final resting place and topped it off.

[Smoke4320]

over 100 easily. Probably more than you will be able to move the bucket before handle pulls thru the plastic bucket

[Winger Ed.]

I guesstimate weight for things like at as being relative to a 80 lb. bag of concrete.

Lift the bucket and compare that to if it was a bag of concrete.
Or,,, put it on a bathroom scale.

[Mk42gunner]

Going by a bucket of untamed wheel weights a few years ago, I would not be surprised if there are closer to 200 pounds of the dinky little Lee ingots stacked in the bucket.

Robert

[starnbar]

Don't be surprised if a full bucket gets way over 200#

[poppy42]

No idea how much a bucket of ingots weighs, but a 5gal pail of wheel weights weighs roughly 125 pounds depending on your percentage of lead versus zinc and steel wheel weights.

[Hossfly]

1 cubic foot of lead is over 700#.

[BigboreShooter]

I have put 240 Lyman style ingots in a 5gal. Pail
BigBoreShooter

[Rich/WIS]

Somewhere between a ruptured disc and a hernia, possibly both. Repack into several buckets before trying to move it.

[KYCaster]

Don't be surprised if a full bucket gets way over 200#


Somewhere between a ruptured disc and a hernia, possibly both. Repack into several buckets before trying to move it.


Yeah, what they said!!!
Jerry

[jsizemore]

Back in the day, I'd get 200lbs of ingots in a bucket with a little room to spare. Carrying 2 balances the load. Nowadays I only make them 1/3 to 1/2 full. Old and Wimpy.

[pworley1]

I would say over 200.

[William Yanda]

Enough to endanger your feet if you use the handle. Use a cart to move it. Please Let us know when you get it home.

[AlHunt]

I can tell you for a fact that about 200 pounds of muffin tins fit in a 5 gallon bucket.

[country gent]

A quart of lead is 35 lbs roughly. take an empty 5 gallon bucket and fill with water (use a quart jar and keep count) to the same height then estimate for air space between ingots

[bedbugbilly]

Well let's see . . . . . in second grade, we were taught that if you had a wagon full of boxes that weighed 10 pounds each - and the wagon itself weighed 1,000 pounds, but full of boxes it weighed 1,500 pounds - to determine the number of boxes in the wagon you subtract the 1,000 pounds in weight of the wagon itself leaving a total of 500 pounds in weight for the load of boxes. To determine the number of 10 pound boxes in the load, you then divide 10 into 500 which will tell you that there are 50 boxes.But this was done by "old math" - not "new math" or the even newer "systemic racist math".

How many 1 pound lead ingots in a 5 gallon bucket? Weigh it - that will tell you pretty quick minus the weight of the bucket - or maybe just count them?

Of course what may throw a wrench in the works is the material you are weighing - makes a big difference if you are estimating based on if it is a pound of feathers or a pound of lead . . . .

Math class was always so interesting . . . . .

[gwpercle]

Weigh how much the bucket of ingots weighs .
weigh one ingot .
Empty the bucket and weigh the bucket .
Now we do the math ... total weight of bucket and ingots , less the weight of the empty bucket equals the weight of the ingots . Divide this number by the weight of a single ingot this answer will be the number of ingots in the bucket ...Exactly . See how easy math is !

Personally I never liked doing math ... my dumb self would simply count the ingots ... But
I've been told I enjoy doing things the easy way ... if you gonna empty the bucket to weigh it ...just count them when you put them back and to heck with math ...it's overated !
Gary

[quilbilly]

Don't be surprised if a full bucket gets way over 200#
No doubt

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

200.

many years ago, I bought two 5 gal buckets full of Lee ingots, most were poured and dropped while hot, so many ingots were broken, some pieces were slightly melted together in clumps of 3 or 4 lbs. The buckets had been stored outside and the buckets were cracked/broken, but due to a recent rain, everything was wet and there was leaves and acorns in there too...WHAT a mess. But the price was cheap. I transferred everything into 50 cal ammo cans the day I bought them, just to get them home in my truck. I weighed them to find out what I had, total of the two buckets was about 400 lbs.

[memtb]

I’m glad that I just happened upon this thread. For several years, I’ve wondered about how many pounds of wheel weights I have. I do know that at 69 yo......a full 5 gallon bucket doesn’t move as easily as it did 10 years ago. If I average the weights listed here, and calculate my present annual consumption.....I should be good to around 2082! :bigsmyl2: memtb

[JoeJames]

Going by a bucket of untamed wheel weights a few years ago, I would not be surprised if there are closer to 200 pounds of the dinky little Lee ingots stacked in the bucket.

RobertTire store gave me a overflowing bucket of wheel weights on Monday that seemed a bit wider than the normal 5 gallon bucket. I did not weigh the bucket, but upon duck walking it to the edge of my garage, I'd sure estimate it was around 200 pounds. Been taking aspirin regularly for my lower back ever since then.

[gwpercle]

That reminds me ... I have a bucket of sorted wheel weights in the garage , I drew some house plans for a Veteran and I refused to take his money ... said it was my way of saying Thanks ...
He shows up one day with two buckets of unsorted wheel weights and puts them in my cars trunk ... tells me he always pays his way and he knew I cast and reload ...so he gives me ww's. I sort them and melt and cast a bunch of ingots ...mini-muffin .
I still have 3/4 a bucket in the garage ... I hear as they get older they get heavier and harder to lift ... I need to see if I can still lift the bucket ! If I let them get too heavy ... I'll need to find that empty bucket .
Gary

[imashooter2]

Don’t try to lift an old bucket of WW by the handle… I’ve had more than one come off. If it does, your shins and feet could suffer.