Maybe you want to make a terrarium and you aren’t sure how many gallons of dirt will fit in the tank.
Maybe you are working on an engineering project and you want to calculate how many dry gallons will fit into a square or rectangular container.
I wrote an article on this topic and have linked it below. The article should help you determine to know the amount of dry gallons that will fit into any given boxed in or rectangular container.
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Determine-Gallons-in-a-Container-Easy-Dry-Measure
If you get time sometime, please also read some of my other TurtleDog posts.