Hi all
 
This post is not a criticism as such, just something I find
interesting:
 
The recent replies, and previous replies to the whole honey weight
question always boil down to honey being so many pounds per gallon or
other type of gallon at so many percent water.
 
So:
 
Beekeepers generally use a ten frame langstroth hive system with ten
frame supers. We measure percentage water as a decimal system that
works on calculators. Yet, some of the greatest economic powers in
the world (past and present) ie the US and the UK use a mindblowingly
complex non-functional system that is not decimal. So we have people
refering to a non metric volume with a metric % system. I mean if one
uses twelve as a basis for measuring wieghts, why not do percentages
out of 120?
 
I like the metric concept. Sell honey by the kilogram and I think it
works out that a jam jar sized bottle is half a kilogram. This is
easy to work out. You can say for example: a super that weighs say 20
kilograms will give you 40 bottles and use ones head to do the
calculations. (approximately-eg depending on moisture etc.)
 
Any how
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
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decided that a minute should be sixty seconds long yet a second is
100milliseconds?? and the lunar calendar has been abandoned yet we
still use a seven day week? Oh well, call the noose history.
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