Help meeeeeee! I need to know how to convert 16.5 yards to tons - thanking you kindly!

Google is your friend.

http://www.unitconversion.org/volume...onversion.html

I just used that one and read it out to my OH and he said "That can't be right.."..lol so I assumed it was completely wrong! Maybe I just need a new OH!

Assuming you meant 16.5 cubic yards..... of what?

It makes a difference you know.

That would be clean fill

Rule of thumb here ---> http://gardentenders.com/topics/425 seems to come up with 19,000 lbs or just short of 9 ton

sorry - thats only for 7 yards so you will be over double that

LOL he did pull that "hmm that doesn't sound right" face again..!


Thanks

Then make him do it , he seems to know what's right and wrong. You can go put your feet up and have a cuppa.

we had a load of screened topsoil (don't know if that's heavier, lighter or about the same as clean fill - or even if it's another term for the same thing) delivered a few years ago. 10 yards (one dumptruck load) was about 20 tons, IIRC.

Then he would be allowed to touch my laptop - ain't gonna happen :0)

This sounds like only half a question.

16.5 (cubic?) yards... of what?

Tons? Long ton, short ton or metric tonne?

Give us the whole picture... what do you exactly do you need to convert?!

Making an assumption on the density of ordinary backfill at 1,700kg/m3, I figure that:

16.5 cubic yard x 0.76 = 12.54m3

12.54m3 x 1,700kg/m3 = 21.32 metric tonnes (Canadian & modern UK measure)

alternatively,

21.32 metric tonnes x 1.1 = 23.45 short tons (US measure)
21.32 metric tonnes x 0.984 = 20.98 long tons (old UK measure)

Unlikely to be short or long tons. Those units are not much used these days. A long ton and a metric ton are near as dammit the same thing, BTW.

Incidentally, it is wrong to use the term 'metric tonne'. It is 'tonne' or 'metric ton'.

<coat, please>

but how many beans would that be?