Reeder Custom Guns - Just smart enough to be dangerous...

I have a sizeable cache of reloading gear and motorcycle parts stored in a location I need to transfer to another. It’s been here for about 30 yrs.! I got one pallet this past weekend. I palatalized the stuff to just stick in the back of my truck then unload it at the second location. BUT… one pallet is my horde of lead. I decided to do a little math before fork-lifting it into the back of the light duty F150. Lead weighs about 708 lbs. per cubic ft. This pallet is smaller, about 36” square, and I envision if it were all melted into ingots (not in the buckets and tins) to have at least 4” tall stack over the entire wood pallet. (maybe more) So that comes out to north of 2,100 lbs. of weight in my truck, generously rated at 1,000 lbs. capacity under ideal distribution and conditions. Boy I’m glad I didn’t just plop it in the back!

I think I’ll piecemeal it in about (3) loads! A cubic inch of lead weighs 0.41 lbs.

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you should gently slide it in with a forklift. :-D

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rubber 55 gallon tubs here in the shop. After we sift out the lead bullets (and jacketed bullets)I carry them home in 5 gallon buckets that are one third full. The one third full buckets weigh in the vicinity of 225 lbs. For storing in my shop I scoop out about 75 or 80 lbs of the lead and put it into another empty 5 gallon bucket that I set on a dolly. I fill that new bucket up about 75 lbs at a time. I estimated the full 5 gallon bucket weighs around 700 lbs, give or take. This let's me fill up other 5 gallon buckets with the reclaimed lead. I move the 5 gallon bucket on the dolly and move it under my work bench for storage. I have 11 of those 5 gallon buckets full of reclaimed lead. As an estimate each full bucket weighs around 700 lbs and I have 11 of them full of reclaimed lead stored under my bench and I estimate the total weight at around 7500 lbs, give or take. My plan (that never seems to happen) is to spend a snowy day melting all this lead down into ingots. I have one of the 90 lb Magma lead melting pots so I can do quite a bit in a day. Unfortunately that day hasn't come about yet.

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of lead then I guarantee you will hear something break.

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Just smart enough to be dangerous...

WB , it's only lead, no need to worry, LOL

That might have bent something! Had I thrown it in.

That's why...

Thru the years I have reclaimed the lead we shoot into

If you can pick up and throw a 2100 lb hunk