Re: Re: CULT: compost tonnes vs volume
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: compost tonnes vs volume
- From: N* Z*
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:17:32 -0500
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote:
>
> A 8 ft bed on a full sized truck filled level with sand is almost 4 ton .
>
> My guess that wet compost is about 1/2 as heavy as sand.
So doing some back of the evelope math. A pickup worth would be
2 tons. A pickup bed is around 8'X5'X2' [about right? Or less?] so 80
cubic feet or just under 3 yards. So a rough guess would be close to 1
1/2 yards per ton. Now I'm assuming you are all talking Imperial/US tons
and I'm getting metric tonnes. If I'm actually getting metric tonnes
the added 200lbs should represent a nice fudge factor.
I'd rather get more but I don't want to kill myself hauling it
around-)
Thanks everybody. I'll think about it this weekend and try to
decide between getting enough or going easy on myself.
Nick
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