Peat basket

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The peat basket , also known as the turben basket , was a Swiss measure of the volume of peat and was used in the cantons of Zug and Zurich .

12 peat baskets were combined to form a peat fathom so that:

  • 1 peat fathom / turben fathom = 12 baskets = 72 Zurich cubic feet = 56 ¾ Parisian cubic feet = 1 19/20 cubic meters, i.e. around 2 cubic meters

According to the legal stipulations for the new Swiss dimensions and weights of August 1835 between the cantons, this dimension was also renewed.

  • 1 new peat basket = 6 cubic feet = 0.162 cubic meters

The basket could be heaped. The new and old measures corresponded to:

  • 1 old peat basket = 1.013852 new peat basket
  • 1 peat basket, new = 0.986338 old peat basket

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial sciences: containing: coin, measure and weight ..., Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 320
  2. ↑ a b Tables for comparing the hitherto customary weights and measures of the Canton of Zurich with the New Swiss weights and measures. Verlag Orell Füssli and Company, Zurich 1837, pp 64, 65
  3. ↑ Stephan Behlen: Real- and Verbal-Lexikon der Forst- und Jagdkunde with their auxiliary sciences Volume 2, Verlag Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1841, p. 581