How Many Cubic Yards Do You Need? How to Calculate Volume and Tonnage for Yard Projects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:35 How to Calculate Volume
2:47 Dealing with Different Yard Shapes
3:08 Internet Tools
3:51 Calculating Tonnage
5:10 Why Do Supply Yards Sell By the Cubic Yard?
5:39 End Credits
6:13 Outtakes
How do you calculate how many cubic yards of gravel, sand, soil, or other rock products you need? In this video, we talk about how to calculate the volume of your project area-or, in other words, how much material you need to fill your project area.
We also talk about related topics: how to calculate the volume of different yard shapes, which Internet tools can help you, how tonnage is calculated, and why supply yards sell by the cubic yard in the first place.
Check out our companion article, “What Does a Cubic Yard Look Like? Your Material Measured”: www.wa-rock.com/what-does-a-c...
The article includes another math example and a diagram that shows how much material different vehicles can carry.
Credits
Jonny Adams provided his golden voice for the narration. You can find him at www.fiverr.com/jonnydfw
Kelly Ford and Jordan Ford provided acting talent.
Background music: “Song Song” by Gushito and “Dr Molotovs Cocktail Shaken and Stirred” by Humans Win via Storyblocks Audio.
Script, videography, and editing by Eve Hart using the iPhone 12 and Adobe Premiere Pro.
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The best video on this rocky subject on the web!!! Thanks! Now I'm laughing hysterically while calculating!
So glad it was helpful and made you laugh as well!
The Outtakes are the best. Kelly did a great job and I laughed until I cried.
Thank you, John! It was a lot of fun to work with Kelly :)
I absolutely love this video, laugh out loud funny!
Thank you so much!
Whoa!I never knew a lawn care worker could be such a technical maths scholar too!
Technically we're landscape suppliers :) Just don't ask us to do any geometry.
Thank you! Was able to answer homework because of this fun tutorial!
So glad you found value in the video!
This is absolutely hilarious and makes something that is somewhat boring. Much more interesting great job great concept great video editing 10 out of 10.
Thank you so much!
This was helpful and informative
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This is great! Big fan of your videos!
That's such a nice compliment. Thanks for watching!
You guys are funny! Love it!! Wish you delivered to our area! We live right next to the Port of Camas Washougal. There is a rock quarry there nearby that we use, though but they keep encouraging us to get stuff with “fines” since heavy stuff will be using it including a school bus soon! But I don’t want dirty gravel anymore!!! It’s a mess! I want a clean driveway and path to get mail, get in cars, etc! Dirt goes up into the attic too, then into the house from there (we have an old house w ceiling heat if that explains it lol). Planning to build a new house soon! But I also think it would help our driveway to use larger angular rock then small also. Our driveway is compact already after 20 years of solid heavy use! Too compact if u ask me. As wife I am finally taking matters into my own hands, and shovel, rake, and John Deere tractor! I also got Geo textile fabric and Truegrid Pro pavers for the part the school bus will likely use! 🙋🏻♀️ 💪 I’m liking the slope I put in better (less dip in the middle and may no longer hold water there when it rains) so far but haven’t yet completed the implementation of the pavers because I still need more gravel before I had the geo fabric!
Thank you for the comment! We wish you the best of luck on your project!
This video is way too good!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Lmao . this is great to teach my co workers thank you
So glad you found it useful!
underrated video
That means a lot! Thank you!
Why do larger gravel pieces cost more? I would like to try anywhere from 1” - 3” of angular gravel rock, preferably clean. Isn’t it LESS energy for them to produce larger rock pieces vs crushing up rock into smaller pieces? And wouldn’t smaller pieces also require MORE material for the same volume??
Or is it more difficult to crush rock to form larger pieces, thus the price is significantly more?
It generally does take more time and resources to make smaller gravel sizes, especially gravel without fines, which requires more water and leads to byproducts that have to be reprocessed.
There are a few reasons why larger materials may cost more. One reason is that larger rocks can be harder to come by. When the rock face is blasted, it only creates a certain distribution of sizes. The rock has to be sorted to determine whether it will be crushed down into a smaller size or set aside for special projects. To make gravel, we have to break larger rock down. By setting larger pieces of rock aside, resources for making gravel are taken out of the production line. And we can only save a certain amount of large rock for every blast.
Mines are also more difficult to get permitted these days, so the number of mines in operation has gotten smaller over the years. This means there are less places that produce gravel products, and the material may have to travel farther to get to your home. We hope this answers your question.
Great it help but can you exp. In metre
Thanks for watching! Tons and cubic yards are standard in the U.S., which is why we use those measurements in the video. If you need to use the metric system, we suggest googling "cubic yards to cubic meters," and Google will convert measurements for you.
I would suggest using inches as the depth as most homeowners are not needing more than a foot of material. LxWxD(inches)÷12÷27=CYx1.4=Tons. Example: 20'x20'x6"÷12÷27=4.94cy.x1.4=6.9or 7-Tons of stone. The 1.4 conversion factor should only be used in sizes 5/8" and smaller. Consult your supplier for cy to ton conversions for larger rock.
Thanks for the suggestion. One problem with your formula for inches is that you need to divide by 1,728-not 12 inches. That's because you need to divide by cubic inches (12 x 12 x 12). In other words, the formula you're suggesting to convert from cubic inches to cubic yards would actually be L x W x D divided by 1,728 divided by 27.
The solution to your hypothetical situation (20' x 20' x 6 inches) is actually 7.4 cubic yards or about 10.4 tons of 5/8" minus.
In the video, we also measure the depth in inches but convert that measurement to feet. For example, 3 inches would be 0.25 feet (i.e., 3 inches divided by 12 inches in a foot).
That leads to some weird decimals sometimes, such as converting 1 inch to 0.08 feet. So you can definitely do it the way you suggest to avoid that issue. One issue with doing the calculation in inches, though, is that you end up with some very large numbers as you can see in the corrected formula.
Also you're correct that in the video, the cubic yards to tons conversion only works for products that weigh 1.4 tons per cubic yard, like 5/8" minus. That segment was meant to demonstrate how supply yards convert yards to tons, but it doesn't work for all products and may even vary for 5/8" minus depending on how it's made.