How many yards?

[CG]

Maybe this is a general question ... I don't really know .....

I can never remember this ... How many yards do our 8ft beds hold? I'm talking just even with the bed rails.

I just took some branches and yard waste to the composter. I always lay a sheet of 4x8 plywood over the top and smash it all down good. It wasn't even close to the top and there was a lot of dead air space between all the branches (trimmed the apple trees) and she charged me for a yard and a half. Just seems like too much.

[VetteVet]

Here is a calculator. It's length x width x height divided by 27 for cubic yards. You have to convert all the measurements to ft. I.E. 8'x6'x2' divided by 27


http://www.soildirect.com/calculator...rd-calculator/

[bruceman1968]

8 foot beds are 74.3 cubic feet, according to a gm brochure. 74.3 divided by 27 = 2.75 yards.

[CG]

Hey thanks guys. Well maybe she was closer than I thought. We were out at the nursery part of the place a couple of weeks ago an her husband was talking to us and he said a pick up load of clean compost would only be 10 bucks. She charged us more than that, but I felt better stewing about it than arguing with her lol.

[bruceman1968]

Next time show up in a longhorn.

[SS Tim]

Originally Posted by bruceman1968

8 foot beds are 74.3 cubic feet, according to a gm brochure. 74.3 divided by 27 = 2.75 yards.

Just matched up to published bed dimensions. Use the 2.75 cubic yard number for something loose like dirt or horse pellets that will "fill" the bed.