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Tue 11 Jan, 2005 07:39 pm
Well I learned today that sand or gravel is sold by the cubic meter here and it is counted by the shovel full. They just shovel it on to your truck. There are two hundred shovell fulls in a cubic meter and it costs $8.50 US. I wonder how you convert that to weight. Anyone know?
I seem to recall that a yard (cubic, of course) of either is about a ton.
$8.50 sounds kind of steep. but if you're near a coal fired power plant, substitute fly ash for part of the sand. The stuff is deadly sharp, and bonds really well, because it hasn't been subjected to any erosion or abasion to round off the edges.
A cubic metre of sand weighs about 1500kgs.
Yes $8.50 IS steep. Thank you both for the wieght info.
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