Unofficial units of measurment

Business was pretty crazy for me for a while and I was forced to move shop from my parents garage to a storage unit. I've caught up/slowed down lately so I'm working on moving back to my ps with everything to save the monthly rent from the unit. With storage prices so high I made due with what I had for bins and shelving. I was just talking to the wife about how much I had of certain items and came up with a new unit of measurement. Sure, the standard in the industry is pounds, kilograms, tons, etc. Then there's the common unofficial units such as crap ton, and sh*t load. I just invented a new unit (at least as far as I know anyways)

I had a fridge of CD drives. Lol. Literally a fridge with every shelf full of drives. So let's hear it. What other units of measurement have you used that when spoken, the person next to you just looked at you and said huh? And you told them yeah, I just made that a thing.

After reading the Gold Theft thread a few days ago you could use "a butt full of pucks".

If you stored them in an old oven then you could call it a "hot box" full .... but that may mean something totally different, idk.

drum-drum-cymbal

sorry, i had too :p

A beer crate full (maybe its a NZ 'thing'. A wooden beer crate holds 12 x 750mls glass bottles of beer)
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Icecream container full (NZ thing again...2 litres plastic container)
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Boot load = trunkload.
Armfull.!
Not enough to waste your time with.

motherload

A whole hockey sock full.

Down here in the south we measure things in truckloads

Ayuh ! Heeyah on the island we measure by the fish box. They're plastic totes that are used for transporting lobstah, whorse eggs, and fish to market. Fill one of those with scrap brass and you've got something cappy.

On the small scale that carpenduhs and machinists use it's measured in Sea H's

1 black Sea H = .0625" on the caliper -or- 1/16" on the tape.
1 red Sea H = 1/16 " shy -or- 1/32" strong depending on how you want to call it.
1 blond Sea H = .0313" on the caliper -or- 1/32" on the tape. ( If you can even see that little mark. )

Lol .... and you thought the metric system was messed up ? ;)

My favorite is a " butt ton"

My new way of measurement is in four letter words after giving my hard work away for pennies. .

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Originally Posted by Mike1286

Business was pretty crazy for me for a while and I was forced to move shop from my parents garage to a storage unit. I've caught up/slowed down lately so I'm working on moving back to my ps with everything to save the monthly rent from the unit. With storage prices so high I made due with what I had for bins and shelving. I was just talking to the wife about how much I had of certain items and came up with a new unit of measurement. Sure, the standard in the industry is pounds, kilograms, tons, etc. Then there's the common unofficial units such as crap ton, and sh*t load. I just invented a new unit (at least as far as I know anyways)

I had a fridge of CD drives. Lol. Literally a fridge with every shelf full of drives. So let's hear it. What other units of measurement have you used that when spoken, the person next to you just looked at you and said huh? And you told them yeah, I just made that a thing.

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Originally Posted by Hypoman

My favorite is a " butt ton"

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In the Midwest we refer to it as a butt load. A fat ladies butt load equals about a ton in the Midwest. Now you know where that term came from.