Depends on the type of dirt you are talking about and the water content, but as a guide between 1300 and 1600lbs
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∙ 12y ago1 cubic yard is 27 cubic feet, so 3 cubic yards is 81 cubic feet. At 125 lb per cubic foot, that much topsoil would weigh 10,125 lb. At 2000 lb per ton, that converts to 5.0625 tons (if we assume complete precision of all the numbers - if not, then we would be limited to 1 digit of precision because the 3 in 3 cubic yards is only precise to 1 digit. In that case we would have to round the answer off to be 5 tons)
The average tandem axle truck can carry about 12 cubic yards of soil. Generally, a tandem axle truck has three axles.
On one site I found the weight of one cubic yard of topsoil listed as 1,35 US tons
You mean a cubic metre. It depends on the type of soil and how wet it is. Sand, wet - 1.92 tonne/cubic metre Sand, wet, packed - 2.08 tonne/cubic metre Sand, dry - 1.60 tonne/cubic metre Sand, loose - 1.44 tonne/cubic metre Sand, rammed - 1.68 tonne/cubic metre You can measure it yourself on a small scale, because gram/cubic centimetre is the same as tonne/cubic metre. So one cc of wet sand weighs about 1.92 grams.
use conversion factor of 1.64 tons per cy
This is a nonsense question. Tons of dirt can be converted to cubic feet, depending on moisture and dirt type, but not to sf or square feet.
17 tons
it is 2400 kg
1 yard of dirt = 1.45 tons of dirt The above is a function guideline, but it really depends on the type of dirt in question, and how wet that dirt is. For baseball dirt I like to use 1 yard = 1.3 tons
One ton is defined as 2,000 pounds. There is no such unit as the "cubic pound".
11 cubic yards of planting mix converted to how many tons?
1 cubic meter of gravel equals to 1400kg or 1.4 tons.
I do not deal in metric tonnes, but maybe the following will help. We use 25 short tons (2000 lbs per ton) is equal to 19 cubic yards.
1.2 metric tons equals 1 cubic meter of Fly ash (one of the residues of coal combustion).
2.2 tons
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Depends on the density of the 'dirt'. Assuming densith of about twice that of water. Water has a density of 62.4 lb/cu ft 5377.78 x 62.4 = A (weight of water) A x 2 = weight of the dirt This is in pounds so divide by 2000 to convert to tons.