Fudder (unit)

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Fudder was an English measure with three meanings.

Once a piece and counting measure and another time an English unit of mass. As a unit of mass in the business of lead , fudder, also called fodder or tun , was considered to be the English bin. In addition to the commercial weight, this unit was also a measure of volume and liquid.

Just like the German Fuder, the third thing it means is a measure of space, in this case 16 cubic feet , but then the term fother is also used as an alternative .

Piece and counting measure

  • 1 fudder of hay or straw = 36 bunches
  • Hay 1 bunch = 56 pounds, but when it was fresh 60 pounds
  • Straw 1 bunch = 36 pounds

Unit of mass in the lead trade

  • 1 fudder / foster = 28 hundredweight (= 50.802 kilograms) = 28 quintals = 1422.5 kilograms

Before 1835 the measure had other values ​​as well.

A hundredweight can be calculated at 120 pounds (1 pound (Avoirdupois pound) = 453.59 grams ). The measure differed from region to region and it was, for example, in

  • London , Chester and Hull 1 fudder = 20 hundreds / quintals (commercial weight for so-called roll lead)
  • London and Hull 1 fudder = 19.5 hundredweight = 2084 engl. Pounds = 993,077 grams (other lead, based on 112 pounds)
  • Chester and Hull 1 fudder = 19.5 hundredweight = 2340 engl. Pounds = 1,061,096 grams (based on 120 pounds)
  • Newcastle 1 fudder = 21 hundredweight = 2452 engl. Pounds = 1,066,547 grams
  • Bantry 1 fudder = 21.5 hundredweight = 2408 engl. Pounds = 1,091,945 grams
  • Stockton 1 fudder = 22 hundredweight = 2464 engl. Pounds = 1,117,343 grams
  • Derby 1 fudder = 22.5 hundredweight = 2520 engl. Pounds = 1,142,742 grams

For lead ore the measure Oredish ( ore bowl) was used.

literature

  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 168.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weight of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 356.
  • Jean B. Juvigny, Adolph Gutbier: Textbook of commercial arithmetic. Georg Franz Verlag, Munich 1847, p. 404.
  • Samuel Christoph Bunzel: New commercial arithmetic book. Volume 2, Gustav Phillip Jakob Bieling, Nuremberg 1789.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lead", in: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and S. Austen: The builder's dictionary or Gentleman and architect's companion: explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice . Volume 2, 1734.
  2. ↑ a b J. A. Beil, Traugott Samuel Franke : Technological dictionary of the German, French and English languages. Volume 1, 1853, p. 223.
  3. ^ Lueger, Otto: Lexicon of the entire technology and its auxiliary sciences. Vol. 4 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1906, p. 146.
  4. ^ A b Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 558.