If I need 324 cubic feet of top soil - how many tonnes do I order??

[Katymac]

This sort of thing defeats me
It took me an hour to work out I need 324 cubic feet only to find out I need it in tonnes

tia
KMc

Will this involve two men, one digging it out and one filling it in at a third of the speed????

It sounds like the horrid maths problems they used to give us at school

No it will involved vast sums of money

I guess I could get away with 270 cubic feet - but that doesn't help much

Fuck me, you can find anything on the web!

'How much does a yard of product weigh?

Weights for our products will vary from winter to summer because of the moisture content in the product. Typically, mulch products will weigh between 500 to 800 lbs. per cubic yard, 1000 to 1600 lbs. for compost, 1300 to 1600 lbs. for soil mixes and 2500 to 2700 lbs. for gravel products.'

So which is top soil??

And how many cubic yard do I have (do I have to do another sum)

AND how many pounds are in a tonne??

1300 - 1600 lbs hmmm

Still need the other bits sorting

there will be 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard.

The rest? Your on your own!

I think top soil will be in the 1300-1600lbs soil range. It would be lighter that some soils, I would have thought

dh says you need about 20 tonnes. how big is your garden????

found this for you

'(European spelling: tonne) A unit of weight equal to 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds.'

so 2,204.6 pounds in a tonne

I cannot afford 20 tonnes

I cannot move 20 tonnes from the front drive to the back garden

Oh bu&&er

only on MN

I wonder why I even bothered to open this thread as I certainly can't answer it

so 324/27

Gives cubic 12 yards

Times 1300 divided by 2205

I think that's about 7 tonnes??

or not??

around about what I got it to.

But when it comes to gardening I know next to nothing.

I just like finding odd stuff on the internet!

The calulation depends on the weight per cubic yard being right, and I have no real idea if it is or not IYSWIM

dh says to buy it in bulk from any big demolision companies or a big builder's merchant like Thompson's (not B& Q etc.) you should get it for £20 - 30 per tonne. If you can talk to a big building a site or construction site, you could get it for free. if they are stripping it as 'waste' they would want someone to take it off their hands.

Maybe I should have put it in Gardening

I don't want 20 tonnes

what is the length, width of your garden and the depth of topsoil you are hoping to put down? dh says its better to do it all in metric as this sort of stuff is always done in metric.

a six wheeler wagon carries 16 tonnes of soil and an 8 wheeler carries 20 tonnes, so it is not that much soil really!

9 ft by 24fy by 18 inches

so that is 2.7 by 7.3 by .4 it's about 780 cubic m

at £30 a tonne 20 tonnes is £600

using the dimensions in metres
2.7 by 7.3 by .4 = 7.884 cubic metres

multiplied by a density of 1.3 = 10.25 tonnes

multiplied by a density of 1.8 = 14.19 tonnes

the densities varies according to the material (and water content) and how you compact it.

so he would err on the side of 1.8 (as a civil engineer)

Am I going to compact it?

I thought I was going to plant in it - it's for a raised bed

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Thanks Essbee - I think the transportation costs might be a bit prohibitive...320 miles

But I appreciate the offer

rain and gravity will cause some natural compaction. why don't you get a portion at first, see how it goes and then more later if necessary.

I'll have too - I can't afford 20 tonnes plus the moving of it

I guess I will order 5 & see how it goes

have you read my post at By kiskidee on Wed 24-Jan-07 19:52:54?