Can someone tell me if the old round baskets made of thin wooden slats that Grandma always referred to as a "bushel basket", is really a bushel? I have one and it doesnt look like its big enough to hold a bushel of anything. Would someone please give me the measurements for one so I can see if what I have is really a "bushel basket". And does anyone know where you can purchase a new one these days?

-- mooney (monty@bayou.com), July 20, 2001

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Response to bushel basket

http://www.basketfactory.cc/bushel.htm These people sell them, and there are dimensions given. Maybe you have a half bushel?

-- Jennifer J. Lance (jlance@imcnet.net), July 20, 2001.

Response to bushel basket

my baskets are 17 1/2" round at the top and 12 1/2" tall

-- TomK (tjk@cac.net), July 21, 2001.

Response to bushel basket

A standard US bushel is 4 pecks or 8 gallons. It measures about 2150 cubic inches or 1.25 cubic feet. You could measure your basket by using beans, or any dry material and a peck bucket or gallon jug.

-- Jim (catchthesun@yahoo.com), July 21, 2001.

Assuming you meant the basket was 17½" across (diameter), and treating it as a cylinder, I get about 1¾ cubic feet, so it would certainly be possible.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), July 22, 2001.