How many wheelbarrows in a yard of concrete

I have read a few slightly lesser figures however. A ton per cubic yard is pounds per cubic foot. The Wikipedia article on concrete says that the density is usually around pounds per cubic foot. My experience suggests that if someone has to carry much over about pounds, there is a good chance that things get wobbly.

Beer goes only so far to buy careful driving at best! That means pounds of concrete. Divide by the Wiki figure of pounds per cubic foot, and that is 1. At this moment, I would say probably 1. Though I would not be too surprised if everyone manages a "good mood chemistry" and gets it done in 15 trips - but be prepared for things to not work quite that well and require closer to 20 trips. Be prepared to accept the concrete delivery in a timely manner, especially if you are not the last stop for the concrete truck.

The driver does need to empty the truck before the concrete hardens, and concrete does not need air to harden. Concrete cures from the cement ingredient typically "Portland Cement" combining with water to form a rock-like hydrated material.

Maybe even if you are the last stop the truck still needs to keep rolling on a schedule - I suspect the truck may need to be rinsed out before the residue hardens!

They say "cures" in that industry. Another thing that may help a little, at least gain a "brownie point", when dealing with concrete people: Don't refer to concrete as cement. Cement is the adhesive component of concrete. Cement roughly means glue! Concrete is a mixture of cement, "fine aggregate" traditionally sand , and "coarse agregate" this is often pebbles.

The basis for this is that most of the volume is pebbles with sand grains filling much of the space between the pebbles, and pebbles and sand cost a lot less than cement does.

Maybe, but I didn't do any math. Give or take a few. Why do math when the OP doesn't have accurate measurements to start with? I guess there are varying degrees of "doing the math". If I "see" you get served a steak that is twice as big as mine, then I did some math just before I called server over to our table. You gonna eat that potato?

Having pushed a wheelbarrow or three hundred as a kid- volume isn't as important as weight. Wet concrete weighs like a bitch- it would take superman to push a full-size wheelbarrow of it, especially since we are usually talking pushing it on dirt or bouncy walkboards.

A full one would usually lose the top inches of fill to splashing. If you are filling the wheelbarrows out of a truck or portable mixer, more important to have many strong backs and several wheelbarrows staged.

You only have so many minutes of 'open' time before you have to dump the load Right There, rather than in the forms. Once the concrete shows up, IT is in charge- no smoke breaks, no lunch, no potty breaks. You move and shovel and screed till the forms are filled. Back before concrete pumpers came along, they used to have cute little self-dumping gas-powered walk-behind 'mules' for use on sites where you couldn't get the truck close enough. This is a rural area. They probably dont even have one.

If they did, I am sure the cost would not be worth it. It's only one yard that has to be hauled. Actually, if they had an extra long chute, I could probably unscrew a few sheets of the barn steel siding and they could dump it thru the wall, but their chute is probably too short to get between the nearby garage and trees, and by the time I open the wall, using the wheelbarrow and having a few friends over seems easier. I just read all the replies on here. I know better than to fill the WB wheelbarrow to the top.

I mixed some concrete for another shed by hand with an electric mixer. I once overfilled the WB and it tipped over. What a mess!!!! With that extra quarter yard. I can barely mix it for that, and it takes a lot of work to shovel all that sand and stone and make the mix right.

Here's another idea that I got today. The shed is attached to the rear of my barn it's a feed room. The truck can not get in the rear by the shed because the garage and some trees are in the way.

You can use the online calculator to determine how many cubic yards of material are required. As a general guide, 1 cubic yard of aggregate, sand, or dirt is equivalent to 1.

Topsoil Prices Per Cubic Yard. Exact rates can depend on moisture content, type of organic materials, and geographic location. Four wheelbarrows are used to mix 1 bag of cement to 8 bags of ballast. How many 80 lb bags of concrete do I need for 1 yard? The finished volume of an 80 bag of Sacrete or Quikrete pre-mixed cement, sand and gravel is 0. There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard. Dividing 27 cubic feet by the volume of the bag will give you the number of bags you need.

Defining Cubic Yard A cubic yard of dirt is one yard 3 feet long, wide, and high. One cubic yard contains 27 cubic feet. Simply multiply the three dimensions together to find the number of cubic feet, then divide by 27 to find the number of cubic yards. The cost of topsoil depends a lot on location. There are 14 wheelbarrow loads in a cubic yard for a 2-cubic-foot wheelbarrow, and nine wheelbarrow loads in a cubic yard for a 3-cubic-foot variety. The smaller wheelbarrow has a shallow basin, whereas the larger version is more common.

Explanation: A single individual can spread 2 cubic yards of mulch in an hour. Explanation: One yard of mulch typically equates to 7 full wheelbarrow loads.

The Wikipedia article on concrete says that the density is usually around pounds per cubic foot. My experience suggests that if someone has to carry much over about pounds, there is a good chance that things get wobbly. Beer goes only so far to buy careful driving at best!

That means pounds of concrete. Divide by the Wiki figure of pounds per cubic foot, and that is 1. At this moment, I would say probably 1. Though I would not be too surprised if everyone manages a "good mood chemistry" and gets it done in 15 trips - but be prepared for things to not work quite that well and require closer to 20 trips. Be prepared to accept the concrete delivery in a timely manner, especially if you are not the last stop for the concrete truck.

The driver does need to empty the truck before the concrete hardens, and concrete does not need air to harden. Concrete cures from the cement ingredient typically "Portland Cement" combining with water to form a rock-like hydrated material.

Maybe even if you are the last stop the truck still needs to keep rolling on a schedule - I suspect the truck may need to be rinsed out before the residue hardens! They say "cures" in that industry. Another thing that may help a little, at least gain a "brownie point", when dealing with concrete people: Don't refer to concrete as cement. Cement is the adhesive component of concrete. Cement roughly means glue!

Concrete is a mixture of cement, "fine aggregate" traditionally sand , and "coarse agregate" this is often pebbles. The basis for this is that most of the volume is pebbles with sand grains filling much of the space between the pebbles, and pebbles and sand cost a lot less than cement does.

I just read all the replies on here. I know better than to fill the WB wheelbarrow to the top. I mixed some concrete for another shed by hand with an electric mixer. I once overfilled the WB and it tipped over. What a mess!!!! With that extra quarter yard. I can barely mix it for that, and it takes a lot of work to shovel all that sand and stone and make the mix right. Here's another idea that I got today.

The shed is attached to the rear of my barn it's a feed room. The truck can not get in the rear by the shed because the garage and some trees are in the way. However, if I close the gate to fence out my horses, the truck could drive to the front of the barn where there is a 9foot wide sliding door. I know the door is too low for the truck to enter, but their chute could come right thru the barn.

They'd need a chute about 25feet long. The barn itself is 20ft wide so if they parked 2 feet from the door, ran the chute thru the barn, at a slight angle , they could pour it right into that shed.

The door comes off easily enough. Does anyone know how long the average chutes are on cement trucks? You must log in or register to reply here. Ask a Question Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

Click to see full answer. In respect to this, how much concrete can you put in a wheelbarrow? Since your's appear to be much smaller, 11 trips seems too few. Similarly, what is the capacity of a wheelbarrow? Wheelbarrows are available in a variety of volumes, typically from 2 cubic feet on up to much larger sizes such as 6 cubic feet for a contractor-grade wheelbarrow. A typical garden variety wheelbarrow with a deep basin holds approximately 3 cubic feet; the shallower ones typically hold 2 cubic feet.

One cubic metre of concrete weighs around 2. That equates to about wheelbarrow loads per 1m3! A construction wheelbarrow full of concrete can weigh nearly four hundred pounds. A typical contractor's wheelbarrow has a volume of about 6 cubic feet. Doing the math, 27 cubic feet per cubic yard divided by 6 cubic feet per wheelbarrow equals 4.