How many gallons of water in a steeple pit?

Water? No. Real steeple pits are filled with cow or horse urine.

Maybe someone will invent an internet where you could do research and find the answer. Until that happens you'll have to go to a library and look it up in the encyclopedia.

Surprisingly enough there is little to no information on the dimensions of a steeple pit in any local encyclopedia anywhere.

Do the math, bro.

https://steeplechics.com/images/pitdrawing1.gif

It takes about 470 gallons of water to fill a standard steeple pit

https://steeplechics.com/facequip.php?drawing=2

A steeple pit measures 3.66 meters by 3.66 meters at the the top. The pit has a deep box that is .3 meters long by .7 meters deep by 3.66 meters wide. Then it has a sloping run out that is 3.36 meters long measured along the top.

So... (.3*.7*3.66) + .5(.3*3.36) = .7686 + .504= 1.78 cubic meters of water

1 cubic meter = 35.31 cubic feet

1.78*35.31= 62.74 cubic feet of water

1 cubic foot of water = 7.48 gallons

62.74x7.48= 469.30 gallons

Using this diagram:

https://media.wired.com/photos/5932c280aef9a462de9849c1/master/w_660,c_limit/steeplechase-water-jump-diagram.jpg

I created a shape in Autodesk Inventor the Volume would be approximately: 5 072.76 liters or 1340.08 gallons.

ghufhuio wrote:

It takes about 470 gallons of water to fill a standard steeple pit

https://steeplechics.com/facequip.php?drawing=2

A steeple pit measures 3.66 meters by 3.66 meters at the the top. The pit has a deep box that is .3 meters long by .7 meters deep by 3.66 meters wide. Then it has a sloping run out that is 3.36 meters long measured along the top.

So... (.3*.7*3.66) + .5(.3*3.36) = .7686 + .504= 1.78 cubic meters of water

1 cubic meter = 35.31 cubic feet

1.78*35.31= 62.74 cubic feet of water

1 cubic foot of water = 7.48 gallons

62.74x7.48= 469.30 gallons

You forgot the length of the wedge part:

rectangle box part = L x W x H = .3 x .7 x 3.66 = .7686

wedge part = 1/2 (L x W x H) = 1/2 (.3 x 3.36 x 3.66) = 1.84464

total volume = 2.61324 cubic meters = 690.2 gallons of water

ghufhuio wrote:

It takes about 470 gallons of water to fill a standard steeple pit

https://steeplechics.com/facequip.php?drawing=2

A steeple pit measures 3.66 meters by 3.66 meters at the the top. The pit has a deep box that is .3 meters long by .7 meters deep by 3.66 meters wide. Then it has a sloping run out that is 3.36 meters long measured along the top.

So... (.3*.7*3.66) + .5(.3*3.36) = .7686 + .504= 1.78 cubic meters of water

1 cubic meter = 35.31 cubic feet

1.78*35.31= 62.74 cubic feet of water

1 cubic foot of water = 7.48 gallons

62.74x7.48= 469.30 gallons

Oops. Steeple pit should hold about 1340 gallons. I swapped one value and left out another in initial calculation).

Formula should be

(.3*.7*3.66) + .5(.7*3.36*3.66) = .7686 + 4.30

.7686 cu m + 4.30 cu m= 5.07 cu m

5.07* 35.31= 179.12 cubic feet

179.12 x 7.48= 1339.81 gallons

I took the 3 totals calculated -- 469 gallons, 1,340 gallons and 690 gallons - and did the average - which comes to 823 gallons.

Woodnt It Be wrote:

ghufhuio wrote:

It takes about 470 gallons of water to fill a standard steeple pit

https://steeplechics.com/facequip.php?drawing=2

A steeple pit measures 3.66 meters by 3.66 meters at the the top. The pit has a deep box that is .3 meters long by .7 meters deep by 3.66 meters wide. Then it has a sloping run out that is 3.36 meters long measured along the top.

So... (.3*.7*3.66) + .5(.3*3.36) = .7686 + .504= 1.78 cubic meters of water

1 cubic meter = 35.31 cubic feet

1.78*35.31= 62.74 cubic feet of water

1 cubic foot of water = 7.48 gallons

62.74x7.48= 469.30 gallons

You forgot the length of the wedge part:

rectangle box part = L x W x H = .3 x .7 x 3.66 = .7686

wedge part = 1/2 (L x W x H) = 1/2 (.3 x 3.36 x 3.66) = 1.84464

total volume = 2.61324 cubic meters = 690.2 gallons of water

Hah! I used your .3 mistake instead of the .7 depth too.

rectangle box part = L x W x H = .3 x .7 x 3.66 = .7686

wedge part = 1/2 (L x W x H) = 1/2 (.7 x 3.36 x 3.66) = 4.30416

total volume = 5.07276 cubic meters = 1339.8 gallons of water

So i was right? Nice.