Weight & Dimensions for Gravel

[GoodGuy]

Can someone lead me to a good website that will give me weight specs for gravel/rock/sand as well as dimensions for as an example a yard of material. Also I'm looking for calculations for area, an example would be that if I want to fill an area of a particular size, how do I calculate how much material I need. Is my request, clear as mud ??
Please Advise
Thanks
Eric

 

[nobull1]

Here you go buddy http://www.imac.ca/technofocus/weights.htm

 

[nobull1]

another http://www.imac.ca/technofocus/weights.htm http://www.rmcpacific.com/toolbox/tonnage.shtml http://graniterock.com/calculator.html
This should keep you busy. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[nobull1]

one more, http://www.soils.ns.ca/pr03.htm

 

[GoodGuy]

Thanks Brian, you da man !!!
Did you get my pm ??
Thanks
Eric

 

[hillslider]

Hey.....just do not do what I did. Needed some crushed limestone so I headed to the local dirt pit place and the guy that loaded me got a bit carried away. Managed to get 6000LBS in the 3/4 ton ford. No power....no steering....and stopping was a bit hard. The guy that loaded me offered to take some out but I thought I would make her home. 12 miles @ 20mph got me home safely!!!

 

[RobertN]

Were those springs on the rubber bumpers /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Usually 1.5 yards is plenty of rock, not only for weight but especially to unload from a non-dump bed on a 4x4. That typically will have the springs within a few inches of the rubber bumpers. On a 3/4 ton, that is.

A 4x4 usually lowers the GVWR of a pickup too.

 

[California]

Dimensions: to answer in visual terms -

A linear yard is 3 feet, and a cubic yard is 3 feet per side. (27 cubic feet). To illustrate this cube, imagine the shipping carton for a television.

If your driveway is 9 ft wide and a foot thick, then a cubic yard of material will extend the driveway three more feet. (linear dimensions of 3 yards x 1/3 yard x 1 yard = 1 cubic yard).

More realistically, build it a half foot thick and that cubic yard of material will make 6 more linear feet of driveway. Or make it 1/3 of a foot thick - yup, that cubic yard of material will extend the driveway 9 ft.

This should get you started!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

When figuring concrete for an estimate I use eighty square feet per yard when planning on four inch thickness. But when figuring gravel or sand I use fifty square feet.

So a ten yard dump will give you a ten by fifty area four to six inches cover like in a driveway.

Sand, rock, limestone, etc I figure at twenty five hundred pounds per yard. They vary depending upon aggregate but the twenty five hundred pounds is a good guesstimator.