Recent projects with new trailer

Gregster613 · Oct 21, 2021

mwe and nikerret, Than you for the reply/info. Dummy me never even thought to just google an answer. Appreciate the link to that gravel calculator also! It will help me figure out how much weight I've been moving around sometimes.

mwemaxxowner · Oct 21, 2021

My Googlefu is strong.

newbury · Oct 21, 2021

Hudsons are so adaptable.

mwemaxxowner · Oct 22, 2021

I've been borrowing one since I was 15. I've window shopped Craigslist specials for a year or so now. I've looked at a lot of homemade headaches. It's nice to finally own one of my own!

deezler · Oct 22, 2021

Dude!

DieselBound · Oct 22, 2021

mwemaxxowner said:
I'm not sure why some materials are sold in tonnage and some in yardage. Around here sand and gravel are sold by the ton. I figure up the volume I need and do a quick Google on what a yard weighs and estimate from there.

Google says 2400-2900/yard for gravel.

So, for example, right now I need about 4 yards of gravel for my trailer shed. I'll probably get 2 3 ton loads, spread that and go from there.

Loaders and such go by yards because of physical capacity of buckets. Actual weights can vary due to moisture and or fines and the like. Some might actually provide a weight, but when you buy it's usually in yards. As folks have noted, materials have a fairly known weight per unit and such can be used as a fair estimate, but not exact. If one is concerned about being overloaded then one probably IS.

I just sold a 5x10 14k dump trailer that I used in my fencing project. I was running a lot of material (behind my NX) from up my road, loads that were likely pushing 12k lbs or so- in a little 5x10 trailer.

nikerret · Oct 22, 2021

DieselBound said:
Loaders and such go by yards because of physical capacity of buckets. Actual weights can vary due to moisture and or fines and the like. Some might actually provide a weight, but when you buy it's usually in yards. As folks have noted, materials have a fairly known weight per unit and such can be used as a fair estimate, but not exact. If one is concerned about being overloaded then one probably IS.

I believe it’s more a regional thing. From some Facebook groups I’m in, it seems like some parts of the US use weight (tons), others capacity (cubic yards).

Commercially, I have been to several quarries, home improvement centers, concrete plants, and transfer stations/dumps, over the last few years. All of them “talk” and charge in tons, when buying rock, gravel, sand, dirt, and other dry (by process, not due to lack of rain) aggregates. You weigh going into and out of the quarries and transfer stations. The concrete plant uses a scale built into the conveyor. The home improvement centers both go by a “bucket”, for charging, but have a chart that shows how much each bucket weighs, for each product.

The only thing that’s sold by cubic yards is fresh concrete, by the truck load.

nikerret · Oct 22, 2021

Here is a price list, from a new quarry they just opened. By this time, next year, they should have a full sheet of offerings. This is just what the crushed, to open.

mwemaxxowner · Oct 22, 2021

I understand weight of a yard of material varies, due to moisture content and other factors. That's just common sense.

The sand and gravel nearby is sold by the ton, and the mulch and compost I buy is sold by the yard.

3Ts · Oct 23, 2021

Most places I've been sell by the ton. Sometimes they weigh me and sometimes they just dump from the loader. However, there is one place that you order by the bucket. Not really sure how big the bucket is, but it's the front end loader bucket and it's piled as high as he can get it. I have a 7x16 dump trailer with 2' sides and another 2' extension and it will only hold 2 buckets (mushroom compost). I could probably get another 1/2 bucket if I got in and leveled it all out, but I got the dump trailer so I would not have to shovel.