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Is this really 10 yards of gravel?
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Is this really 10 yards of gravel?
My neighbor has been putting in a drain field around his house due to flooding in the basement and just took delivery of 10 yards of drain rock.
This is the pile of gravel as it was delivered in his driveway and nobody thinks it is ten yards but rather more like five.
I am posting this to get opinions on what you think.
5 yards or 10?
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Once it is spread out it will look like more. I had the same thing happen to me. I thought that I was getting ripped off. Turned out once it is spread it is right.
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Drove dump trucks and belly dumps for several years... Looks like 10 yards to me.
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I don't see a picture with the post but it is easy enough to measure. Measure around the base, calculate the area, measure the height of the pile and do the math.
area of base (assume it circular) x height x 1/3 will give you cubic feet. Then divide by 27.
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It does look like ten as I just moved 15 tons. Look at the bill and it should have the weight of the truck with and w/o the rock.
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My son in law installs stone driveways primarily for new residential housing. He figures approximately 1.5 tons of stone per cubic yard.
Example for a driveway 100' by 11' by 2" would require approximated 10.19 cubic yards of stone.
How many tons was your friend billed for since this is how the supplier figured how much to deliver?
Looks about right to me also.
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I deliver 10-12 yards of wood chips to customers regularly. That looks like about 10 yards to me.
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I say 10 yards like earlier said it does not look like it but if you spread it out the right way you will have 10 yards, know this from having mulch and other stuff that needed to be spread out it looks less cause it is not spread out. Just hope that your neighbor was not ripped off though have them to check their slip for before and after load though too ok.
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I'm saying 7.5.....although, I can't be right next to it and measure the pile and tell you for sure.
at 4" thick 1 cu yard will cover 81 sq ft.
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Dennis how many tons of stone per cubic yard are you figuring?
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look at it this way
10cu yards would fill 270 1ft x1ft x 1ft boxes
I'd say thats between 6-7 yards
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Originally Posted by glruff
Dennis how many tons of stone per cubic yard are you figuring?
I'm not doing tonnage.. .....I'm looking at the pile and envisoning how many 27 cu ft (3'x3'x3') boxes that pile would fill.
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If you look in the picture on my opening post that is the same exact truck. And it was NOWHERE NEAR filled up when the driver backed into the driveway.
I'll go talk to him and see what's developed. Thanks for the replies. If it's ten yard
then it's ten yards.
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Actually the bed on the gravel truck is shorter. Ah well, sigh, I'm not trying to make trouble, but that pile sure looks small for ten yards.