Bushel

[Flatlander]

It’s a crazy way to measure yields but I’ve lived in both worlds and to be honest I’m now tuned into bushels. The YS bushel is smaller than imperial. A ton in the US is 2000lbs or a short ton. US gallon is 3.78 litres. Here being close to the border you need to ask when buying anything that involves weight or volume. Best crazy example is oats. we are paid for a 34lb bushel but no buyer will take them at that weight. 40lb is the benchmark. Back long before a scale was common the bushel container was easy to measure with. time has moved on since but I still like the bushel system of yields.

 

[North Coast]

The correct way to measure a stamped bushel was to overfill it, then give it a dunt with the roller that was then used to sweep the surface grain off. That way the weight was consistent.

 

[bankrupt]

The correct way to measure a stamped bushel was to overfill it, then give it a dunt with the roller that was then used to sweep the surface grain off. That way the weight was consistent.

Similar techniques still apply here with our rudimentary on-farm specific weight testers.

Often talk locally about 'bushel' weight being so many kg/hl - that's unless it's found to be below the agreed specification, in which case it's always 'specific'.

is this because 'bushel' rolls of the tongue so much better than does 'specific'?

Or is it just nostalgia getting its retaliation in first?

 

[An Gof]

Similar techniques still apply here with our rudimentary on-farm specific weight testers.

Often talk locally about 'bushel' weight being so many kg/hl - that's unless it's found to be below the agreed specification, in which case it's always 'specific'.

is this because 'bushel' rolls of the tongue so much better than does 'specific'?

Or is it just nostalgia getting its retaliation in first?

Changed from Bushel to Specific weight when we joined the EU Just waiting now for “Miss Trust” to negotiate and agree a return to the Bushel.
Our Liz isn’t one to hide her light under one

 

[bankrupt]

For some reason, the word "truss" immediately springs to mind in connection with every mention of the 4 bushel sack.

 

[Farmer Roy]

But to be fair most people quote bales per acre as opposed to tons per acre

thats because you can stand and count them, unless you have a weigh bridge its tricky to work out tonnes per acre of hay.

but when hay is sold here, it nearly always goes over a weighbridge & is sold / bought in tonnes . . .

 

[bankrupt]

The 4 bushel sack certainly tended to separate the men from the boys.

One driver used to run up and down his truck so fast that he could put on a load of barley, placing every sack faultlessly first time, in just over 10 mins.

All the merchants' standard flatbed waggons then grossed at 14t so, depending upon their tare, 90/100 sacks of barley made up a load (always 98 in the case above).

When we moved on to loading bulk grain in 1959, it took us nearly 30 years to get back up to 50t/hr.

On the other hand, we once spent 48hrs loading 24t of milling wheat onto BRS heading for Plymouth with the crew of an eight-wheeler and drag (an assistant driver then being a legal requirement, to operate the trailer brakes) every individual sack having been an enormous two man struggle.