Grain Scale

Anyone have any experience with this scale from harbor freight for measuring out larger quantities of grain (as in more than just a couple pounds)?

http://www.harborfreight.com/70-lb-32-kg-digital-postal-scale-95069.html

No but you can get the same basic thing on Amazon for HALF that price... I have the 50lb blue postal scale from Amazon and it was $19.50. Works great. Comes with batteries and an AC adapter.

i have a coupon that'll bring the price down to 30 bucks. after shipping from amazon, i'd probably be near that anyway. couple extra bucks for not having to deal with shipping and waiting is worth it to me.

nope - free shipping. Just a few day delay....

nice! can you link to the one you're using... there's like a million scales on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003N3ZVJQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

That is the 50lb one. They also have a 75lb one. To get free shipping you have to buy $25.00 minimum (unless you have a Prime membership like I do - which is unlimited free 2 day shipping). So get some pellet hops or a new flask also and you are at $25.00.

That weighmax model seems like a better choice than the Ultraship 55 I was considering at $30 plus another $8 for an adapter.

FredTheNuke said:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003N3ZVJQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

That is the 50lb one. They also have a 75lb one. To get free shipping you have to buy $25.00 minimum (unless you have a Prime membership like I do - which is unlimited free 2 day shipping). So get some pellet hops or a new flask also and you are at $25.00.

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I know this is a fairly old topic but what do you use as a container to contain the grain you are weighing?

I use a 5# Homer bucket. Mine is actually the Ultraship 35 which has a detachable faceplate...which makes it way easier to read when using a bucket.

I found this scale:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005BTQ4SC/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

on Amazon that I'll probably be buying. It has Tare, 65lb max, .2oz resolution, for $23.00. My only concern (as with any measuring device) would be it's precision and accuracy. Should definitely be fine for grain, not sure about hops, but we'll see.

wow. That seems like a really good deal, if you believe the list price of $90...

I would be surprised that you can use the same scale for hops. It says 0.2 oz resolution, so on one ounce of hops that 20%, which is quite a bit. And that's assuming resolution is the same as accuracy.

I am looking at something like this one, which can go up to 11 lbs, so for me in 5 gal batches each type of grain isn't much more than that, and on occasion I would have to weigh in two batches.
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We use THIS ONE for hops when we brew. Weighs up to 11 pounds, measure to the 0.1oz. Been fine for our brewing needs.

BirdmanBrewingCo said:

We use THIS ONE for hops when we brew. Weighs up to 11 pounds, measure to the 0.1oz. Been fine for our brewing needs.

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I use that same scale. It's great, especially when measuring out priming sugar or other small quantities.

BirdmanBrewingCo said:

We use THIS ONE for hops when we brew. Weighs up to 11 pounds, measure to the 0.1oz. Been fine for our brewing needs.

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That is the one of the ones that my LHBS sells. They also sell a lower capacity higher resolution escali that is accurate enough for measuring brewing salts. If I hadn't already owned scales when I got into brewing I would likely have bought both.

I use this one: http://www.harborfreight.com/1000-gram-digital-scale-97920.html for hops and brewing salts.
it measures to 0.1g or 0.01oz.

Mate,

Lots of top quality brands offering their scales to weight different items and products. To weigh larger quantities of grain is not an issue for scale offering brands. You can buy the best quality digital weighing scales from Amazon and Ebay sites. Soon I will share with you a link from where you can directly access to your requiring scale.

I bought one of these and it works great. Just hang it from a hook I installed and pour the gain in a bucket hanging from the scale. It's seems to be very accurate when tested against my postal scale.

http://www.berkley-fishing.com/products/tools-and-equipment/classics/scale-50-lb-digital

I use a digital fish scale as well - that combined with a 11 lb gram scale is all I need for everything from mineral additions to big buckets of 2-row...