This video is an excellent empirical demonstration of why the United States should give in and adopt the metric system. Twenty meters is more than twenty yards. If the amount of dirt had been twenty meters, it would have dwarfed the amount of dirt in this video. As an American, I am embarrassed that our dirt volume does not compare favorably to European dirt volume. We must make American dirt voluminous again!
Or maybe hes making sure it comes out even and doesnt overload one side of the truck and possibly tip it over as he raises it up. Dont believe that that can happen just look on YT for lots of videos of it.
Awesome viewpoint via drone. If live time updates were available or used by bubba, he'd probably be a better driver. Rearview mirror vs. drone - Sundial vs. atomic clock.
if anyone knows where i can find something that shows what 6,123 cubic yards looks like? you hear that right 6,123 cubic yards. county is letting them remove all the dirt from the mountion side down the end of my road. i know if i dump truck we will say 20 cubic yards thats 306 dump truck. what is the county thinking. I cant even think how much that would look like.
end to end of a football field 5ft high on each goal post is 10,666.6 cubic yards. how high is 6,123cubic yards? sry suck at math and had a stroke in 2018.
Why are you filming the truck as it goes out of your neighborhood? I wanted to see what the piles of dirt look like on street level. BTW, this HAS to be this guy’s first day on the job! He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
didn’t look like the 20 yds of mulch I got - I think he for short changed. not to mention the guy driving all over and compacting his soil - for a job like this - a blower operation would have worked really well though certainly more expensive but would be done in about 2 hours or less. Mine once dumped was about 28’ long x 6’ high. Maybe just the angle of the video - I was trying to look at the height of the guy and the truck, house to compare but difficult overhead. I don’t think he has enough mulch because it looks like he needs it in back too - if you figure 4” minimum base. Hope he didn’t have any irrigation lines run with all that truck weight. Like firewood - people get jipped everyday - what’s the old saying...if the price is cheap - there is probably a reason.
Here's an SAT Math question. I've got a lot of dirt/sand available nearby. I've heard a bobcat can carry a 1/2 a cubic yard. I've got a 50x50 clearing I need to elevate 2 feet. How many trips will it need to make?
It is 371 trips. 50 feet x 50 feet is 2500 square feet... times 2 feet (24 inches high) is now 5,000 cubic feet. There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard (3x3x3). 5,000 cubic feet divided by 27 cubic feet (a.k.a. 1 cubic yard) gives you the total number of cubic yards you need to fill, 185.19. Since your Bobcat only carries 1/2 a cubic yard at a time, you will need to do double that amount of trips. (185.19 times 2 is 370.37) Your last trip, number 371, carries a partial load.
