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.
Yard of crushed granite covers.
One yard of crushed granite covers about 80 100 sq ft.
Various types of stone are used in this operation such as granite and limestone.
Landscaping materials are often sold in cubic yards.
Gardeners use decomposed granite for creating pathways or as a ground cover for beds with.
Here is the math.
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.
Let s look at a quick example.
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.
You need to know who many cubic yards that comes out to.
You may pick up at our houston tx location with a trailer and we will load it with a loader.
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Large pick up trucks 3 4 and 1 ton can haul one yard of heavy material or a couple of yards of bark.
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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.
Decomposed or crushed granite costs 1 to 3 per square foot and is found in bags at local home improvement stores.
Number of pounds pounds per cubic yard of material number of cubic yards needed.
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.
At texas garden materials we sell bulk decomposed granite by the yard.
Crushed stone is quoted at a weight of 2700 pounds per cubic 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.
Your stone dealer tells you he has a truck that can deliver 20 tons of stone per load.
However regular maintenance is involved with a crushed granite driveway since cars easily cause indentations.
How to figure out cubic yards of decomposed granite.
Crushed granite is also one of the most cost efficient ways to cover a large driveway.
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