Soil swell and shrink converter
Convert bank, loose and compacted yards for a soil type, plus truck loads.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full haul ticket you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: haul ticket
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
5,000 CY bank of common earth / loam = 6,250 CY loose in 391 legal loads, about 8.1 days with 4 trucks, $37,145.00 to haul
- Bank (in place)
- 5,000 CY
- Loose (hauled)
- 6,250 CY
- Compacted (placed)
- 4,500 CY
- Truck loads
- 391
Truck weight check
- Weight per loose CY
- 2,400 lb (3,000 lb a bank CY over 25% swell)
- Heaped 16 CY load
- 38,400 lb (19.2 tons)
- Legal payload
- 50,000 lb (80,000 lb limit less 30,000 lb empty)
- Gross weight loaded
- 68,400 lb
- Yards per load to stay legal
- 16.0 CY
- Verdict
- The box fills before the weight limit: a heaped 16 CY load grosses 68,400 lb, 11,600 lb under 80,000 lb
Also on the sheet
- Load ticket (one legal load) · 4 lines, starting with “Loose in the truck”
- Hauling plan and cost · 5 lines, starting with “Total weight to move”
- Same 5,000 CY bank in other soils (by volume) · 6 lines, starting with “Sand”
The plain-words read of this example
5,000 CY bank of common earth / loam becomes 6,250 CY loose and 4,500 CY compacted. At 3,000 lb a bank CY a heaped 16 CY load weighs 38,400 lb, against a legal payload of 50,000 lb. The box fills before the weight limit: a heaped 16 CY load grosses 68,400 lb, 11,600 lb under 80,000 lb. Hauling takes about 8.1 days with 4 trucks and costs $37,145.00. Check the weight per yard against scale tickets on day one.
4 cited sources
- 23 CFR 658.17, Weight (eCFR (Federal Highway Administration rules))
- Caterpillar Performance Handbook (edition 49) (Caterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer))
- ASTM D698, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil Using Standard Effort (ASTM International)
- 29 CFR 1926.602, Material handling equipment (earthmoving equipment) (OSHA)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.