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How do you go from bank cubic yards to loose cubic yards?
To determine the volume of dirt you will have to haul to another location on the site or off the site, you would multiply the cubic yard by a Swell Factor, which in this case would be 1.25. This would convert the 1.0 Bank Cubic Yard (BCY) to 1.25 Loose Cubic Yards (LCY).
What is a loose cubic yard?
loose cubic yard (or meter) A unit to express the volume of loose material.
How do you convert CCY to Lcy?
- How many 10cy truck loads of soil = 1000CCY?
- Swell = 30\%
- Shrinkage = 25\%
- BCY = CCY/(1-shrinkage)
- LCY = BCY*(1+Swell)
- LCY = CCY/(1-shrinkage)*(1+swell)
- LCY = 1000/(0.75)*1.30 = 1735 LCY.
- Truck loads = LCY/10 = 174 truck loads.
How many yard of dirt do I need?
Length in feet x Width in feet x Depth in feet (inches divided by 12). Take the total and divide by 27 (the amount of cubic feet in a yard). The final figure will be the estimated amount of cubic yards required.
What is Lcy and BCY?
BCY = bank cubic yards. LCY = loose cubic yards. CCY = compacted cubic yards.
How much is a loose cubic yard?
A cubic yard is the volume of a cube with the length, width and height of one yard (3 feet or 36 inches). One cubic yard is equal to 27 cubic feet. To help you picture this, the volume of two washing machines is just over a cubic yard.
What is loose volume of soil?
Loose volumes are the volumes of soil that haven’t been disturbed during excavation and removal and are placed in the back of dump trucks or in stockpiles in a loose condition. Therefore, 1 cubic yard of natural in-place soil becomes 1.25 cubic yards in a stockpile or back of a dump truck.
What is loose volume?
What is bank cubic yard?
A cubic yard is volumetric measurement of something that is 3′ x 3′ x 3′ = 27 cubic feet. A cubic yard of native soil in place would be called a bank cubic yard. Native soils have been compacted over long time spans, so these soils are usually pretty dense.
How do you calculate a cubic yard?