Thanks for replying. I think the fish-weight may be what I should look
for. I usually weigh up some 15-20 kg in batches. Of course you are
right w.r.t. the no need for high precision (or accuracy?). Reason for
trying to be a bit careful here is that I use wild berries which
sometimes differ a lot in water content (even the same type of
berries). I also like to build up a datafile for the normal
content(and variation) of acids in these berries.


(PA-ter) wrote in message . com>...
> How much do you want to weigh ?? I use(ed) a bathroom scale till I
> found out that every 5 gal bucket of apples weighed 30 lbs. Now I
> don't need one for them. Once I used a big plastic tub I got from wall
> mart to weigh them all at once (90 lb) using 2 2x4's to keep it up
> enough to read it, but the 5 gal buckets work nicer. If your going to
> want to weigh more than that, you should consider the headache of
> lifting a bunch of weight up to a hanging scale & hooking to it or
> having to hoist it up every time you want to weigh something. In
> larger batches of wine as it appears you are into, accuracy to a pound
> or 2 is all thats necessary. Don't sweat the small stuff, if you think
> your close to what you want but not sure, throw in a coupla' more
> pounds just for good measure. I've experimented with anywhere from 60
> to 90 pounds of apples in a 60 gal. batch to see which would be better
> & it was ALL good. Good luck.