I find that hard to believe. See here, when I operate a CAT 936 front end loader wheeled to feed a ready mix as I have, sand in the bucket something like 7 yards is not as heavy as a bucket load of stone.
Ive been weighted with Maryland State Police standing on my ### eyeing the scoreboard inside the coop, and it's 9 ton under sand or 22 under stone.
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There is a lot of air space with stone.
Now with your two bags of sand and stone, fill a five gallon bucket. The stone will fill the bucket in fewer bags than the sand. Say it takes 10 bags of stone. But the sand bucket takes 15 bags.
So the stone bucket weighs 10 pounds and the sand bucket weighs 15 pounds. Both filled to the same volume, the more compact less air filled sand will prevail.Last edited: Nov 22, 2016
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Per Google, 1 cubic yd of sand weighs 2840 lbs and 1 cy of crushed stone weighs in at between 2600 and 2700
Also from my experience, the weight of sand can be greatly effected by moisture content more so then stoneRuthless, dirttrackking55, snowman_w900 and 2 others Thank this. -
I have made a hopper bottom full of money hauling sand. It takes just a minor amount to hit 26 ton.
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I hated driving a 32 foot end dump. Anything more then a slight curve and I was slowing down.
Plus, I always got the tightest deliveries because I could get in everywhere (allegedly).
When the weight is stuck in the nose of the trailer it's doesn't matter if it's 32 or 39 you can tell your center of gravity is way up there.
If it were me I'd get a 39 ft. You can do local and if that slows down then you can do OTR and vice versa.dirttrackking55 Thanks this. -
You need to check your local laws to see what the weight ratings are, pretty much the whole north east minus D-bag CT allows us to get an overweight permit for atleast 99,000 gross.Ruthless and poppapump1332 Thank this. -
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Didnt help that the dozer guy was a jerk. He said he didn't have time to cut a hard spot for trailers and he'd been there 25yrs and seen plenty go over but it was just part of environment.. I got myself off that after the first day but another company had a brand new quad axle up there a couple wks later and flopped it.
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