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Imagine a box 3 feet high by 3 wide and 3 feet deep. That is one (cubic) yard.

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On one site I found the weight of one cubic yard of topsoil listed as 1,35 US tons


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600-800 pounds dry, wet double that


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How many bags of top soil weighing forty pounds each would it take to make one cubic yard of top soil?

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How many ton a yard?

It is difficult to answer this without knowing what the cubic yard contains. A ballpark estimation would be one of the most common consumer purchases of something delivered by the cubic yard, top soil. A relatively dry, screened, cubic yard of top soil will weigh approximately 2400 lbs. For our friends in the rest of the world, 2400 lb = 1088.621 kg (or 1.08862 mt).


How many tons equal a yard?

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What are the dimensions of 1 yard of top soil?

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