The burn pile

I have had the same burn pile at my house in Baker since November, I think. I have burnt a lot of wood in that one spot. At one time I had a pile of coals burning for seven weeks straight. I would burn a lot during the weekend and come back the next weekend and just turn the coals and throw wood on the pile and there would be fire. It is fair to say that pile stayed very hot for a long time.
Anyway, today was the day to clean up that pile. It was a large pile of ash, nails, and other objects that did not burn. I thought that it was going to be an easy going project. I was wrong. I decided that I was going to use the great trash can that the city of Baker provided for me to haul off the ash. It worked awesome. There is nothing better to haul stuff through the woods than that can. I could not believe how durable that thing is.
Everyone knows that I like to measure my work by the weight moved. Like my garage project, most likely well over 10,000 lbs. For my ash project; I am assuming the unit weight of ash to be 120 lbs/ft^3. (The unit weight of dirt) I hauled approximately 240 gallons of ash. One cubic foot is about 7.48 gallons. So by my calculations I hauled 3,850 lbs of ash. That seems high to me, but when I think about how long it took me I believe my numbers.

Here is a picture of how I rigged up the "trailer." You can also see how clean the ground is where the burn pile was at.