gravels

[nsfour]

I ordered 10 cubic yard of gravels (rundle rock to be precise) and they were delivered this morning. Is there a way to find out whether or not if it is indeed 10 cubic yard? It looks smaller than I expected to see after seeing 1cubic yard on a truck the other day.

Thanks,

[CaptSmethwick]

I ordered 10 cubic yard of gravels (rundle rock to be precise) and they were delivered this morning. Is there a way to find out whether or not if it is indeed 10 cubic yard? It looks smaller than I expected to see after seeing 1cubic yard on a truck the other day.

Thanks,

Measure the diameter and height of the pile and use your 1st year integral calculus to calculate the volume.

Okay, that was partly kidding - a very rough approximation of the volume of a pile is the height of the pile multiplied by the product of the square of the radius of the top of the pile by the square of the radius of the bottom of pile and the product of the top and bottom radii. That's probably confusing and only holds if the pile is circular...

But, roughly, 10 cubic yards of gravel would normally be about 7' tall and about 8-10' in diameter at the bottom and about 4' in diameter at about 1' from the top.