Posted on 12/09/2005 10:49:04 AM PST by Travis McGee
Looks about right. Note some of the wood slats are bending under the weight. The little forklift at the local cement factory can handle the load.
I would have to inspect it personally to give an accurate estimate...
Sumpin' seems wrong with this picture....
Gold is made into a large number of different bars of different weights. The most well known are the large 'London Good Delivery Bars' which are traded internationally. These weigh about 400 Troy Ounces, i.e. 12.5 kg/ 27 lbs. Each. Others are denominated in kilogrammes, grammes, troy ounces, etc. In grammes, bars range from 1 g up to 10 kg. In troy oz, from 1/10 tr.oz. up to 400 tr.oz.. Other bars include tola bars and Tael bars
I copied this from gold.com
I don't have time to run real numbers, but if the load paths are directly through the bars and wood to ground and if the wood is sufficiently strong in compression, it looks real to me.
Take a look at the first full-view stack of pallets on the right. Just below the top pallet, it appears to be sitting on a sheet of 3/4" or 1" plywood. Notice how the very edge of the plywood is bending down under the weight - it would take a lot of weight to bend that wood with such a short moment arm (or lever length). So that top pallet of gold is probably real to provide enough weight to do that.
Fun speculation, though!
That one on the lesft, yeah, that one, that's mine.
You gotta problem with my handwriting?
If really gold, the weight would snap the plywood sheets. I say its fake.
each pallet only weighs 2160 lbs.
Where did you get a picture of my basement?!
Yep, a BILLION DOLLARS, on plain $5 wood pallets, with hand lettered "postit" labels?
http://www.streettracksgoldshares.com/images/ Check it out, you can see other angles and images of the same.
Paging Odd Job!!
My only question involves the pallets at the bottom of the stacks . . . How do they hold up the entire load above them without breaking?
Looks like the vaults at the Depository Trust company down in the Wall Street district.
Typical gold bar is 400 troy ounces or 27.4 lbs.
Have then FedEx a pallet or two to my place and I will have an answer for you within a week.
If you look at the center of each stack of gold, there is a stack of ingots direstly under the central beam of each pallet. The weight of the pallets is therefore concentrated onthe gold beneath it and the compresive strength of the blocks of solid wood underneath.
It's possible.
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