Water is about 8.3 pounds per gallon. Lead is about 12 or 13 times as much.
Tire weights, of course, have some air space.

Just for a quick, crude calculation. 55 x 8 x 10 = 4400, or about two tons.

Now, if lead is selling for a buck a pound..... (I'd have to call the
recycle yard in the morning.) If you try to scoop out the wheel weights,
consider wearing gloves and respirator. Lead is toxic.

Christopher A. Young
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How much would a 55 gallon metal drum filled with lead wheel weights
weigh? A local service garage has filled one such barrel with all the
old wheel weights they take off tires. I asked them what that weighs,
they said they would like to know, because no one can even move it, much
less get it on a scale. All I know is that it's a hell of a boat
anchor....