Math help? Tons to gallons

[CarpCharacin]

Yeah I think you'd need 13ish 30 gallon barrels for 2000 lbs of barley, it'd take up around 400 gallons as it's apparently around 38 lbs per cubic foot. I initially made a dumb mistake.

 

[casportpony]

One gallon of lay pellets weighs 5.8 pounds.
One gallon of rolled corn weighs 4 pounds.

 

[CarpCharacin]

A gallon of barley also weighs around 5 lbs, at least if the 38.4 pounds per cubic foot value is correct.

 

[wolfwalker]

3.3 pounds of barley will fit into a 1 gallon container. I found that figure on a beer brewing site. The issue is not the 1 ton, but converting a 1 gallon volume into a weight. Brew master's deal in large weights of grain but then have to make sure they do not overload the volume of the brewing vessel. So if using a 30 gallon barrel and going by volume from a brew masters website you would need 607 of them. BUT we know that a 30 gallon drum from a farming stand point will hold 130 pounds of wheat grain, so you actually need 15 of them.

The original question is tricky because it on the surface seems to want a weight to volume conversion. Blame my college mad as a hatter math professor.

 

[CarpCharacin]

http://counties.agrilife.org/gillespie/files/2011/08/Conversion-Tables-for-Ag1.pdf
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/files/Weight per bushel and bulk densities of grain and seeds.pdf
You don't need 15 barrels if the values here are correct.

 

[B-Goock]

I use those metal trash cans to store 50lb feed bags. I can fit 2 in and have space on top for a partial bag. Still some wasted space so if I dumped it in I would think 150lbs would fit & I don't think the cans are as big as a 55gal barrel.

Btw at first reading the title I thought it was gonna be a chicken math problem. Haha