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Originally Posted by Mister Byrnzoil
Thanks Bot, I have considered the wind, but hadn't considered the weight..
a drum weighs about 40 lbs and I'd need 17 of them. The stack will not be free standing, and I believe that sufficient reinforcement could be added to the bottom barrel(s).
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Back in ancient times I took a calculus course in which we had to demonstrate that weight-for-weight, a cylinder is stronger than a solid column. I (mercifully) have forgotten the intricacies but I'll bet an engineer somewhere has provided, on the Internet, a method for determining the deformation of a barrel under stress in 1 direction.
The reason I mention wind is that I can imagine that a combination of lateral thrust and gravity is pretty serious. I'm guessing a function to the 3rd or 4th power. Is there an M.E. in the house?