03-15-2018, 10:43 PM
People don't realize how dense gold is. When you see thieves moving pallets full of gold in the movies it's so misleading that it's almost...criminal. A standard gold bar is about 12.5kg (27.5 lbs). They're shipped 40 to a pallet, totaling 500kg (1100 lbs). That isn't a trivial amount of weight to move around. Yeah, it's easy with a forklift, but then you have to put it in/on something to move it.