I'm not so much looking at the pile but going off the calculation of what the pile filled. Should have taken X cu yds leaving a remainder, but no remainder was left. Shape filled should not be able to hold amount of material ordered.
My cross section drawing is an approximation. I looked at it last night and the base is wider than 6'. Probably 7.5' at the very bottom, but top is thinner at about only 1' right now. Yes, slope is incredibly steep. That's intent - get as close to a vertical wall of dirt as I can possibly create. As I'm filling, I stop and take the bucket and press flat spots in the slope. That makes small ledges and encourages next buckets to go "up" and "out" vs just rolling down to bottom widening base.
But should change my title to "feeling stupid".......since I need another load...regardless if what was delivered was 20 yds, 26 yds, or 1,000 yds, will still need more to finish it once it settles some and I can get it thicker, higher. So I called company B, figuring I'd go thru the ordeal of getting them to match company A price. Turns out they must have already lowered their price considerably. Their quad axle load is 18 yds (and from my old picture a few pages back you can see it looks remarkably similar to same amount as 26 yds from company A) & is $1.20/yd more delivered. So for $30 I'd probably be topping off old berms to get rid of excess dirt instead of griping I didn't get enough
I guess I just forgot over time....stone from company A - they're cheaper (offer crushed concrete, magnet screened, much cheaper than ABC gravel) and deliver with weight tickets, mulch & dirt from company B since they are generous with their loading by volume.
