If you want to haul these materials in your own truck you need to know the weight per ton and the capacity of your truck.
Yard of crushed granite covers.
Gardeners use decomposed granite for creating pathways or as a ground cover for beds with.
One yard of crushed granite covers about 80 100 sq ft.
At the bottom of the crushing machine lies a screen that traps the the crushed stone product the finer material that passes through the screen is also kept and sold as stone dust.
Buying bulk decomposed granite is less expensive than buying in bags.
For bulk crushed granite prices range from 25 to 50 per ton and between 38 and 75 per yard.
Sub base sb2 gravel between 1 to 4 inches costs 38 per cubic yard 1 41 per cubic foot or 27 per ton when you.
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Number of pounds pounds per cubic yard of material number of cubic yards needed.
Crushed stone is produced by passing stones through a crushing machine at a quarry.
At texas garden materials we sell bulk decomposed granite by the yard.
Crushed granite is also one of the most cost efficient ways to cover a large driveway.
Various types of stone are used in this operation such as granite and limestone.
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However regular maintenance is involved with a crushed granite driveway since cars easily cause indentations.
You need to know who many cubic yards that comes out to.
Your stone dealer tells you he has a truck that can deliver 20 tons of stone per load.
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1 cubic yard 1 25 tons for most landscape material with the exception of lava rock or mulch just multiply the total by 1 25.
As a general rule of thumb small trucks 1 2 ton can haul a half yard of gravels and soil or a yard of bark.
Instead of a soft velvety lawn in the back yard why not try what landscape designers call hardscape an expanse of reddish tannish decomposed granite where the grass used to grow.
Landscaping materials are often sold in cubic yards.
You may pick up at our houston tx location with a trailer and we will load it with a loader.
Large pick up trucks 3 4 and 1 ton can haul one yard of heavy material or a couple of yards of bark.
Crushed stone is quoted at a weight of 2700 pounds per cubic yard.