Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Come on do the job, you have mised half the info. :-))

1 bushel of wheat or soybeans = 60 pounds (77.2 Kg./hl.)

1 bu corn = 56 lbs

1 bu barley = 48 lbs

36.74 bushels of wheat = 1 metric ton

33.33 bushels of wheat = 1 short ton

• The metric ton of 2204.6 pounds is the weight unit most widely used in reporting international trade statistics.

• The short ton of 2000 pounds is domestically used in the United States, as well as in some other countries.

• 1 bushel of wheat will make about 73 loaves of white bread, 1 lb. each.

• 2.3 bushels of wheat will make 100 pounds of white flour (72% extraction).

when real people were using bushels, soybeans had never been heard of!
nor for that matter had the metric tonne (please note!) nor the short ton (a nasty american imposter aka illegal immigrant!).

in the good old days, if you spoke of a bushel, you meant a bushel of corn - i.e. 56 lbs and thus half cwt!

Then we are talking about the American size bushel , now thats a different story. :-))

A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush!! Sorry you were talking about bushels - gin and antiobiotics have impaired my vision haha!! Nice weekend all.

So giving you a test, what weighs more a bushel of wheat, barley or oats. No looking up the answer. :-))

i don't think we should be talking about birds and bushes here - we'll get banned

Thats ok 3m, lol

I bet you liked a trim bush.

without cheating, i'ld hazard a guess at wheat

That reminds me who put that pussy wagon on the I lost my house thread. I would never do a thing like that. :-))

Your right, then barley than oats.

you're getting too frisky ..... go and have a roll in the snow :-)

Bb will have you as a worker perhaps first shovelling sh--. lol

I hope the weather where you are is better than it is here. Wish I was young again, used to enjoy walking 2 miles to school piddling around in the snow - gone are those days. Still went outside and made a path way and salted and felt slightly childish remembering the tingling hands - believe me if the joints in my body and the chest would have allowed I would have been making a huge snowman. May I add I could also have made snow balls from the snow on the bush if I could have found it - didn't see the pussy that hangs around either!! Nite Nite.

Very little snow here 3m. Mind you just seen more forecast for next Tuesday. Trust you 3m, lol. Have a good weekend.

Cryptic 3m... like it!

Bushel always makes me think of an old Kate Bush joke - alluded to in post 20339!

Tyketto - sharps Doom Bar seems to readily available atm - and an excellent pint it is too!

Odd to name a beer after a sand bank though.

It beggars belief how some people think it's acceptable to treat animals.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/9813408/Horses-beaten-with-iron-bars-at-abattoir.html

Barbaric - and which nationals did this I wonder - cheshire is only 40 mins away from me, I find this totally out of order - not something to go to bed on. Unacceptable to say the least.

The dance of a 1000 hands

http://www.youtube.com/embed/7vs-H7xLnrs?rel=0