Lol because this is sooooo damn true.
Our new house we did a fair amount of rock in the backyard because the yard is fairly good sized, did about 17 yards of dolomite (in addition to other things). There is almost no more thankless work I can think of than shoveling rock from a driveway/street into a wheelbarrow, to a backyard going uphill, in 100+ degree heat. I love our backyard but looking back, I’d pony up the couple grand to find someone else to do it.
I’m from the south so I had a different image of that scene. Perhaps him coming out of a restaurant with a doggy bag. But then I remembered hush puppies are also shoes, lol.
I did 20 tons of small'ish white and river rocks by hand (shovel and cart) after buying my house and redoing the backyard. About 100 yards from dropoff to backyard. Do not recommend. But it does give me a shitload of joy while I sit outside and look at it, drinking whiskey to mask the forever back pain..
My husband looked into skid steers a while back. This is a sampling.
“You have to be 18 and have a valid CA driver's license but there's no other licensing requirement! THE FOOLS!!!"
A whole lot of uncontrollable giggling about the "ride-on vibratory compactor with trenching attachment"
"IT HAS A CLAW ATTACHMENT" complete with hand gestures. "Pit stop."
More giggling and "Imma yeet the van" in a suspiciously low tone
He also googled skid steer training. "You can just SIGN UP for skid steer training. Like as a private citizen, you can just SIGN UP for skid steer training."
"Normal duty...heavy duty...SEVERE DUTY. For when you need to move some SEVERE DOODY."
"SKID STEER AND SKID STEER ACCESSORIES." gleeful chuckle. "JOHN STEERE." Giggle.
It was an entertaining evening.
As someone who used to drive delivery trucks just like this, I’ve heard this exact same thing a millions times haha. “ doesn’t look like x amount…after shoveling…ok feels like xxxxxxx amount”
I can relate to this. We got 1 ton of rock to put under our raised deck. Lasted about 35 minutes of shoveling and wheelbarrowing it. It looked like I hadn't even dented the pile. I put the shovel down and walked inside to use the phone to get a rented skid loader delivered the next day, then hired 3 kids to spread the rock...LOL
Let’s phrase this another way
- On average, river rock weighs around 3,000 lbs per cubic yard
- On average, humans around 1288 lbs per cubic yard
So 6000 / 3000 = 2 cubic yards river rock
And 6000 / 1288 = 4.7 yards human
Do you think you can fit 4.7 of Rock Stars into that pile?
Looks about right to me!
Depends on the person. Guys are 9+, gals are 8+, and Jerry McGuire came out in 1996 before the average American’s average weight shot up by an average of (*insert more choices of average junkfood*) pounds in the freedom unit measurement scale.
So. Ten is probably correct in 2024.
Here is an emoji of my food baby🫃
I’m having twins, I’mma name them Ben & Jerry’s.
You are right that OP is *probably* not that heavy. But then again this was shitty math powered by shitty googling and zero fact checking.
But let’s say he is 180lbs, so there should be about 7 OP’s per yard. If they are completely smooshed together anyway…. Ouch!
So there should be about 14 OP’s in that pile.
And since we are doing shitty math and no fact checking, can we just say it’s maybe around 10 OP’s to account for air & beer space?
Your math seems sound, but bananas are a far more accurate unit of measure than rock stars. Op needs to post a new picture using a banana for scale so that the amount of cubic bananas can be properly calculated. Of course, the river rock weight would need to be converted to cubic bananas, or else we would still be comparing apples to oranges.
Rocks are dense. Ton of feathers and a ton of bricks weigh the same, but a ton of feathers would fill an Olympic swimming pool, and a ton of bricks is 1 pallet.
There is an entire episode of Top Gear where they do everything they can to destroy a Hilux including setting it on top of a high rise building being imploded and it survived that and they got it started again.
It sat in the studio as a prop for most of the show seasons.
We used too have them (just called "Toyota Pickup" back then). I had an '89. Great truck until it got stolen. Never heard from again. Likely ended up in Mexico. I lived in L.A. at the time.
TBF, people who haul rocks in Japan don't use Hilux, they use a Dyna. I think Toyota stopped selling their Hino version of the Dyna in the US, but Isuzu sells the nigh identical Isuzu Elf (aka N-series in NA) and Forward (aka F-series in NA).
Anyways, the Dyna was sold until just a couple of years ago in the US, you can probably find one.
The Dyna tri-cab was one of the coolest models ever. 3 rows of seating and still had a bed. Sexiness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GosQGXm2hE
Lmao. Thankfully it was uphill from the Home Depot for me; I'm sure that my brakes would have burnt up.
Realized my error when heading up a moderate incline, gas pedal floored, going 12 mph.
Fun fact, a ton of feathers is actually heavier! Because you have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor, poor birds.
^I ^hope ^you ^enjoyed ^my ^dad's ^joke
And 1 pallet of bricks is 720 bricks, I load these things and trust me, the looks on people’s faces when their nice pick up trucks drop to the floor with the weight of a pallet
I would be so lost if I had to go off weight and not volume. Like I get there are pros/cons, but to me, it’s so easy to not really know exactly what you’re getting, especially dealing with things like roadbase that may retain a ton of moisture, but it also sounds insane to place an order like “yeah I’ll need 25,000 pounds of rock”. Our rock yard goes by volume, so it’s insanely straight forward to know how much you need to order to fill an area. 3 tons is only like 2 yards (depending on the product), isn’t it?
I did a calculation based on square footage of the area and gave it to the contractor, and the invoice stated the estimated square footage it covered. I think it’s easier for them to measure by weight when they fill the truck at the scale.
. We buy lots of aggregate and the mine sells by weight. It's roughly 1.3 tons of crushed gravel per yard, a tandem dump truck can hold 15.5 tons roughly so if I calculate needing 12 yards I just say a tandem load
If you're like me and are doing massive jobs with tons of materials you get used to working this way
You have to order by weight straight from a quarry or pit. If this is in the States, DOT requires that all trucks are measured and only ticketed if they are under the maximum capacity based on their bed size and number of axles. The trucks are weighed by certified scales inspected by Office of Weighs and Measures and overseen at the site by a certified weigh person. If records are falsified by the weigh person, they are liable. In addition, clean stone products (stone that has been sized and sorted) do not retain moisture enough to significantly affect the volume you are getting like mulch. Even if you are getting base, which does retain moisture well, you need that in there in order to properly compact it.
I once ordered 48 bags of river rocks from home depot. It would have been cheaper to do bulk but I wanted to be able to pick up a bag and drop it where I wanted and empty it instead of having to shovel it and all that nonsense.
Around here most of the sand pits and other places that sell materials in bulk sell it by the ton. There are a few smaller landscaping places around town that basically resale by the yard.
I ordered some large landscaping rocks for my yard, they weighed what I wanted and it was half a freaking ton! I was for what? Those? Yup rocks are heavy lol!
That looks like about two yards so I'd guess around 6,000 pounds, yeah. Don't worry, it'll be around 50,000 by the time you get it where it's going lol
Regardless of the actual weight, isn’t it humorous that so many of us (123 as of the moment), myself included, felt the urge to comment on this post, more than half of the number of people upvoting it. That is a noteworthy level of engagement for a seemingly boring topic.
Get to shoveling and then tell us what you think. I got stones smaller than this and about 10,000 lbs I have to move from one sideyard to another. Its a good workout for sure.
Yeah. A cubic yard (imagine a box a little bigger than a washing machine) weighs around 3000 pounds. That looks like what you'd get if you dumped out 2 of those boxes. At least that's how my mind works. lol
The density of granite is around 165 lb per cubic foot. That means you need about 35 cubic feet, so an 8 ft diameter by 2 ft tall cone. There's some voids, but that should get you close.
Oh man I moved 10,000 lbs of river rock last weekend and the pile was barely bigger than yours.
I used a trailer and each load was 20, 5-gallon buckets that each weighed about 80 lbs to max the 1,600 lbs the trailer could haul.
Looking at 1,600 lbs of rock in the back of a trailer in 20 widely spaced 5-gallon buckets is a frustrating “that’s it!” experience.
done and done. I had to shovel it in 27 gallon totes and wagon it up a 100 yard driveway.
I told my wife to have the guy drop it off at the front of the driveway because we have a tree root bulging up a section of the slab and I was afraid it might crack.
The guy drove up the driveway by mistake and my wife sent him back to drop it off at the top of the driveway.
I paid a lot i think. it white rocks with pink stripes. paid total of $620 delivered.
That looks like 600 pounds of rocks.
Edit: zoomed in. Suddenly that “little kid” sitting on the pile looks more adult-sized.
So changed my mind. Maybe not 6000 on the nose. But within reason.
As someone who has worked in a rock quarry for the past 4 years, I can confirm that definitely looks like about 3 tons. My condolences to your back and knees
I used to work at a place that sold landscaping rock. We would describe a ton of rock as a bathtub full, this looks accurate. Plus, they should be weighing the trucks.
The time i helped this yard crew wirh a full backyard remake after moving rocks and cement i couldn't even get off the truck i was in so much pain lmao
To me it doesn't look like 6k lbs. Count how many wheelbarrow loads it takes and try and judge it from that. To me that looks like 8 or so loads @ 250-300ea "based off my personal WB.
I bought three yards of dirt which didn’t look like a lot when they dumped it. Three months later I finally finished moving it by selling the last to my neighbor.
The best way to find out is by standing on a scale to determine your weight and then put all the rocks in your pockets and stand on it again to see if it’s 6000 pounds more.
I got 24 tons of rock for my backyard a couple years ago. Was originally planning on doing it myself but was told they would install for $1000 extra. Best $1000 I’ve ever spent, would have taken me DAYS and my body would have been destroyed.
after an hour of shoveling im going to say about 25,000 pounds give or take
Lmao I feel this.
I feel it too, in my arms, back, legs, knees, elbows,.....
My neck, my back...
…my pussy and my crack? I thought we were shoveling rocks here
Crack rocks
Acting out the song is better than shoveling rocks.
Shoveling the crack right into my pipe
Laying pipe, more like
That’s not how “Head shoulders knees and toes” goes. You’re a horrible pre-school teacher.
...my sacroiliac
You’re gonna need a backiotomy.
My coochie and my crack
You know how much you can get for a slip and fall in a store!
My shoulders and my traps
I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes....
Lol because this is sooooo damn true. Our new house we did a fair amount of rock in the backyard because the yard is fairly good sized, did about 17 yards of dolomite (in addition to other things). There is almost no more thankless work I can think of than shoveling rock from a driveway/street into a wheelbarrow, to a backyard going uphill, in 100+ degree heat. I love our backyard but looking back, I’d pony up the couple grand to find someone else to do it.
And after the first 50 trips the pile looks bigger than when you started.
I've helped my folks with piles of mulch that feel this way. I can only imagine how much worse rocks would be.
Rocks are 10000% times worse. We hauled 4 cu yd of rock to put under our deck and it was the worst project I’ve ever taken on.
You just triggered my ptsd
F rocks, I’ve switched to shells and I ain’t ever going back 🤣🤣🤣
[Dolomite is nothing Id mess with](https://imgur.com/a/eowE3aO)
"Move over and let me pass, before I shove these Hushpuppies up your mutherfugging ass." - Dolomite
I’m from the south so I had a different image of that scene. Perhaps him coming out of a restaurant with a doggy bag. But then I remembered hush puppies are also shoes, lol.
Heck yeah! Made with love and PFAS in Rockford, Michigan. I had a mustard colored suede pair that I wore ragged!
Me too! I was wondering what hush puppies did to him
Wu-Tang Clan is also nothing to mess with
Dolomite?! Bender is 40% dolomite!
That looks like 6000 rocks OP
Just did this with about 600 pounds and you can’t tell me I didn’t shovel 10,000 pounds. Good luck lol
I did 20 tons of small'ish white and river rocks by hand (shovel and cart) after buying my house and redoing the backyard. About 100 yards from dropoff to backyard. Do not recommend. But it does give me a shitload of joy while I sit outside and look at it, drinking whiskey to mask the forever back pain..
You can rent a skid-steer for like $300. And they deliver.
My husband looked into skid steers a while back. This is a sampling. “You have to be 18 and have a valid CA driver's license but there's no other licensing requirement! THE FOOLS!!!" A whole lot of uncontrollable giggling about the "ride-on vibratory compactor with trenching attachment" "IT HAS A CLAW ATTACHMENT" complete with hand gestures. "Pit stop." More giggling and "Imma yeet the van" in a suspiciously low tone He also googled skid steer training. "You can just SIGN UP for skid steer training. Like as a private citizen, you can just SIGN UP for skid steer training." "Normal duty...heavy duty...SEVERE DUTY. For when you need to move some SEVERE DOODY." "SKID STEER AND SKID STEER ACCESSORIES." gleeful chuckle. "JOHN STEERE." Giggle. It was an entertaining evening.
As someone who used to drive delivery trucks just like this, I’ve heard this exact same thing a millions times haha. “ doesn’t look like x amount…after shoveling…ok feels like xxxxxxx amount”
It's like the it didn't scan must be free joke at the checkout at this point.
25,000 for the price of 6,000. You got a hell of a deal
This is why I'm glad my father in law got an entirely unnecessary tractor with a scoop on it
I can relate to this. We got 1 ton of rock to put under our raised deck. Lasted about 35 minutes of shoveling and wheelbarrowing it. It looked like I hadn't even dented the pile. I put the shovel down and walked inside to use the phone to get a rented skid loader delivered the next day, then hired 3 kids to spread the rock...LOL
Dude this happened to me last summer 😂
I just did the same thing a week ago and feel this.
It always seems like more when you're done. Pavers too.
i mean 6000 pounds of rocks and 130 pounds of rock star.
Let’s phrase this another way - On average, river rock weighs around 3,000 lbs per cubic yard - On average, humans around 1288 lbs per cubic yard So 6000 / 3000 = 2 cubic yards river rock And 6000 / 1288 = 4.7 yards human Do you think you can fit 4.7 of Rock Stars into that pile? Looks about right to me!
Did you know the human head weighs about 10 pounds?
The little kid from Jerry Mcguire said 8 lbs.. I think I'll trust him
Depends on the person. Guys are 9+, gals are 8+, and Jerry McGuire came out in 1996 before the average American’s average weight shot up by an average of (*insert more choices of average junkfood*) pounds in the freedom unit measurement scale. So. Ten is probably correct in 2024. Here is an emoji of my food baby🫃 I’m having twins, I’mma name them Ben & Jerry’s.
I know decent head is about $50…..
This feels like a time for a rum ham. 🥃🍖
Can I offer you an egg in this trying time? 🥚
I’m trying to follow but a banana for scale would really help here.
How many washing machines is that?
This is wrong. You’re assuming he’s exactly 1 cubic yard which would make him 1288 pounds according to wherever you got that number
You are right that OP is *probably* not that heavy. But then again this was shitty math powered by shitty googling and zero fact checking. But let’s say he is 180lbs, so there should be about 7 OP’s per yard. If they are completely smooshed together anyway…. Ouch! So there should be about 14 OP’s in that pile. And since we are doing shitty math and no fact checking, can we just say it’s maybe around 10 OP’s to account for air & beer space?
Your math seems sound, but bananas are a far more accurate unit of measure than rock stars. Op needs to post a new picture using a banana for scale so that the amount of cubic bananas can be properly calculated. Of course, the river rock weight would need to be converted to cubic bananas, or else we would still be comparing apples to oranges.
Ugh, have an upvote LOL
Yes it’s about 3 ton of rock
Rock it up like a party star
It does. I got 3 tons of stone and it seemed like a little bit…till I started shoveling.
Rocks are dense. Ton of feathers and a ton of bricks weigh the same, but a ton of feathers would fill an Olympic swimming pool, and a ton of bricks is 1 pallet.
You have never seen such disappointment as the first time I loaded a half ton of rock into my half-ton pickup truck.
Almost killed my poor '88 ranger filling the bed with pavers. I figured if it fit in the bed, it should be able to haul it.
You should see what the hilux can do
That one Hilux testing video is like cartoon logic shit
There is an entire episode of Top Gear where they do everything they can to destroy a Hilux including setting it on top of a high rise building being imploded and it survived that and they got it started again. It sat in the studio as a prop for most of the show seasons.
I think that's better than being thrown out of a helicopter which is what it took for whistling diesel to kill his
Oh they did all sorts of dumb things, I’ll have to rewatch the episode but it was an impressive amount of damage for it to still start.
I felt some type of way about what a nice truck it was before he had his way with it
Crashed it a lot. Set it on fire. Rolled around in the tides on the beach. Dropped a caravan on it I believe as well. It just kept going.
the tides wow
I wish we had them in the US
We used too have them (just called "Toyota Pickup" back then). I had an '89. Great truck until it got stolen. Never heard from again. Likely ended up in Mexico. I lived in L.A. at the time.
I have a 96’ Tacoma. 300k miles, still going, but It’s just a farm truck now
I just saw a t100 in an auction. I might piss my wife off and buy it for $570
TBF, people who haul rocks in Japan don't use Hilux, they use a Dyna. I think Toyota stopped selling their Hino version of the Dyna in the US, but Isuzu sells the nigh identical Isuzu Elf (aka N-series in NA) and Forward (aka F-series in NA). Anyways, the Dyna was sold until just a couple of years ago in the US, you can probably find one. The Dyna tri-cab was one of the coolest models ever. 3 rows of seating and still had a bed. Sexiness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GosQGXm2hE
amen
Ford fuckin ranger!!! **not my link**: https://imgur.com/gallery/fuckin-ford-ranger-d2QBQp6
I had the same logic when I filled the back of my SUV with sod. I’m lucky I didn’t destroy the suspension or die or kill someone on the way home.
Lmao. Thankfully it was uphill from the Home Depot for me; I'm sure that my brakes would have burnt up. Realized my error when heading up a moderate incline, gas pedal floored, going 12 mph.
What do you mean a ton of bricks and a ton of feathers weigh the same? Just look at em. Ones huge.
Feathers weigh more because you also have to count the weight of the guilt on your shoulders from whatever you did to those poor chickens.
I prefer to imagine them as sparrow feathers.
Ah don ge’ it
"They're both a kilogramme!" "But...steel is heavier than feathers..."
>Rocks are dense. I'm sorry but this was so funny to see written in a matter of fact way. Well golly!
Fun fact, a ton of feathers is actually heavier! Because you have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor, poor birds. ^I ^hope ^you ^enjoyed ^my ^dad's ^joke
And 1 pallet of bricks is 720 bricks, I load these things and trust me, the looks on people’s faces when their nice pick up trucks drop to the floor with the weight of a pallet
I would be so lost if I had to go off weight and not volume. Like I get there are pros/cons, but to me, it’s so easy to not really know exactly what you’re getting, especially dealing with things like roadbase that may retain a ton of moisture, but it also sounds insane to place an order like “yeah I’ll need 25,000 pounds of rock”. Our rock yard goes by volume, so it’s insanely straight forward to know how much you need to order to fill an area. 3 tons is only like 2 yards (depending on the product), isn’t it?
I did a calculation based on square footage of the area and gave it to the contractor, and the invoice stated the estimated square footage it covered. I think it’s easier for them to measure by weight when they fill the truck at the scale.
Yep.
Can confirm. Shoveled and wheelbarrowed 2 yards of 57s last week and my wheelbarrow had a flat tire
lets do the math. each stone weighs 1lb. i see 6000 stones. it is correct. here is my tip jar
I thought a [stone was 14 lbs](https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/weight/stone-to-pound.html#how)
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that’s only on one small island over there. Those people are a little uh, not right.
Looks like river rock, which is roughly 2,600 lbs./cubic yard. Looks about right. Driver should have a weight ticket for the load.
Moon river rock. MOON RIVER ROOOOLL!
It’s right in my q zone
It’s not RIGHT in my Q zone is it???
WE GOTTA FLY JEFF CHRIS DOWN FROM INDIANA TO MIX IT PROFESSIONALLY.
It’s gonna be a hit!!! But you HAVE to RELAX!!!!!!
Stop. Scamming. Adults. Into thinking they’re stars!
Your family hates you! Only I love you!
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I scrolled looking for this very comment. Thank You.
Yea, I have a stone and gravel pit. I’d say that’s 3 ton.
You guys who work gravel can eyeball that stuff to an incredible degree
how does one acquire a stone and gravel pit
Start digging a hole
Yes Mr. Sir
I read that in a very deep man's voice
Does 1/6th of it seem like 1000 pounds?
Not sure but 1/16 does look to be about 375 pounds.
How many rocks in 1/32? That seems more manageable. Perhaps something close to 187lbs
6000 lbs is about 2 1/2 yds for river rock. From here it looks pretty close to 2 1/2 yds.
Yes it does. Don’t order by the pound. You want to order by cubic yard.
Places around me have started only selling by weight. They'll do the calculation for you if you ask for volume though.
. We buy lots of aggregate and the mine sells by weight. It's roughly 1.3 tons of crushed gravel per yard, a tandem dump truck can hold 15.5 tons roughly so if I calculate needing 12 yards I just say a tandem load If you're like me and are doing massive jobs with tons of materials you get used to working this way
You have to order by weight straight from a quarry or pit. If this is in the States, DOT requires that all trucks are measured and only ticketed if they are under the maximum capacity based on their bed size and number of axles. The trucks are weighed by certified scales inspected by Office of Weighs and Measures and overseen at the site by a certified weigh person. If records are falsified by the weigh person, they are liable. In addition, clean stone products (stone that has been sized and sorted) do not retain moisture enough to significantly affect the volume you are getting like mulch. Even if you are getting base, which does retain moisture well, you need that in there in order to properly compact it.
5,879
Yeah, those are large diameter rocks.
No. I'd say 3,000 to 3,500.
I once ordered 48 bags of river rocks from home depot. It would have been cheaper to do bulk but I wanted to be able to pick up a bag and drop it where I wanted and empty it instead of having to shovel it and all that nonsense.
You, I always order by the yard.
yea me too; 6000 lbs would be something like 2.5 yards
That’s some light aggregate
6000lbs divided by 2.5yds is only 88pcf, no way. Needs to be closer to 120-150pcf
Around here most of the sand pits and other places that sell materials in bulk sell it by the ton. There are a few smaller landscaping places around town that basically resale by the yard.
For things like compost and mulch it’s by the yard, rock by the ton, but they give estimates on how many yards per ton.
Yeah, didn’t even know it was possible to order by weight to be honest, 1/4 yard, 1/2 yard, 1 yard + is the only way
I just got 60yrds of loam and 30 yards of crush and run delivered to the crib.
I ordered some large landscaping rocks for my yard, they weighed what I wanted and it was half a freaking ton! I was for what? Those? Yup rocks are heavy lol!
Hell yeah rocks are heavy lol. 🤦🏻♂️😆
Oh stop! You know what I meant lol! Stinker, I bet you think water is wet too eh? Smartass haha! 😆
There's an easy way to find out... You weigh one rock, then count how many rocks there are.
Pro tip,you can finish in half the time if you weigh two rocks and then count pairs of rocks
I'll bet it feels like 6000 pounds, after you start wheelbarrowing it.
Whatd the ticket say?
3 tons. they seem legit
That looks like about two yards so I'd guess around 6,000 pounds, yeah. Don't worry, it'll be around 50,000 by the time you get it where it's going lol
You should be able to calculate an approximate weight given the height and diameter of the pile. I'd also ask to see the quarry receipt/load ticket.
Regardless of the actual weight, isn’t it humorous that so many of us (123 as of the moment), myself included, felt the urge to comment on this post, more than half of the number of people upvoting it. That is a noteworthy level of engagement for a seemingly boring topic.
Ask to see the loading weight papers
This is the equivalent of my wife asking "does this make me look fat?"
Could be.. larger stone, like this, will not look like a pile of base that is dirt heavy.
These rocks are probably billions of years old. Looks like you got a great deal!
Better break out the weight scale and get after it, I’d like to know before I go to bed tonight
That depends on whether I have to move it.
Always order by volume.
Get to shoveling and then tell us what you think. I got stones smaller than this and about 10,000 lbs I have to move from one sideyard to another. Its a good workout for sure.
It will feel that way with every shovelfull.
load and move it with a wheelbarrow and tell us what you think?
Yeah. A cubic yard (imagine a box a little bigger than a washing machine) weighs around 3000 pounds. That looks like what you'd get if you dumped out 2 of those boxes. At least that's how my mind works. lol
The density of granite is around 165 lb per cubic foot. That means you need about 35 cubic feet, so an 8 ft diameter by 2 ft tall cone. There's some voids, but that should get you close.
it never does
Maybe 2,000 or 2 tons. Nothing more than that.
Yes
Oh man I moved 10,000 lbs of river rock last weekend and the pile was barely bigger than yours. I used a trailer and each load was 20, 5-gallon buckets that each weighed about 80 lbs to max the 1,600 lbs the trailer could haul. Looking at 1,600 lbs of rock in the back of a trailer in 20 widely spaced 5-gallon buckets is a frustrating “that’s it!” experience.
Need a banana for scale
done and done. I had to shovel it in 27 gallon totes and wagon it up a 100 yard driveway. I told my wife to have the guy drop it off at the front of the driveway because we have a tree root bulging up a section of the slab and I was afraid it might crack. The guy drove up the driveway by mistake and my wife sent him back to drop it off at the top of the driveway. I paid a lot i think. it white rocks with pink stripes. paid total of $620 delivered.
Absolutely, yes. I shoveled 8 tons of that same stone last year. Buy ibuprofen, drink water, and good luck.
With a scale, a calculator, and some calculus you should be able to get an approximation within a few hundred pounds.
That looks like 600 pounds of rocks. Edit: zoomed in. Suddenly that “little kid” sitting on the pile looks more adult-sized. So changed my mind. Maybe not 6000 on the nose. But within reason.
Easy way to check just weigh one rock then count the rocks, multiply by the weight and there you go.
I would have guessed 2500-3000 pounds.
More like 600 lbs.
One cube of rock is two tonnes. You will need to convert that to medieval units. But just by eye, that looks close to one and a half cube.
Many companies short you because they know you can’t measure and also what are you gonna do. Same with soil and bulk firewood
Find an average weight of each rock and multiply by how many rocks there are (estimated).
600 to 800 pounds 6000 lbs is about 3 1/2 yards
Looks like 6000 rocks not pounds.
No, it looks like 1 ton. All this joking and no honest answers for your bank account.
That’s definitely not 3 tons of stone.
6000 pounds of mullet
I move material In 3 ton increments daily with dump trailer. That’s 6000 # or close
One cubicle yard of concrete weighs about two tons
That doesn’t even look like 6000 rocks.
As someone who has worked in a rock quarry for the past 4 years, I can confirm that definitely looks like about 3 tons. My condolences to your back and knees
I've hit rock bottom with all these comments 😆
I used to work at a place that sold landscaping rock. We would describe a ton of rock as a bathtub full, this looks accurate. Plus, they should be weighing the trucks.
Depending on rock, a yard is approx somewhere over 2k that looks like about 2 yards
The time i helped this yard crew wirh a full backyard remake after moving rocks and cement i couldn't even get off the truck i was in so much pain lmao
Looks like 4”, about 1#/ea, and that’s easily 6000 of them
600lbs
Nope just 6000 rocks to me
That's approximately 1 ton. I haul Aggregate Stock ( 57's, 8's, 9's, 304, Subber A and CFB, Rock ) . I drive a semi truck dump truck and trailer
You paid too much for those rocks. You can get better deals for £6000
To me it doesn't look like 6k lbs. Count how many wheelbarrow loads it takes and try and judge it from that. To me that looks like 8 or so loads @ 250-300ea "based off my personal WB.
No it just looks like someone on their phone. Happy to help.
I pick up 1000lb bag of rocks at work. That easily looks like 6.
That looks like maybe 2 ton. Unless it's super heavy rock. I load rock/mulch all day er'day
I bought three yards of dirt which didn’t look like a lot when they dumped it. Three months later I finally finished moving it by selling the last to my neighbor.
Yep
The best way to find out is by standing on a scale to determine your weight and then put all the rocks in your pockets and stand on it again to see if it’s 6000 pounds more.
3 ton? Looks about right.
Nah that’s actually just 6000 rocks
I got 24 tons of rock for my backyard a couple years ago. Was originally planning on doing it myself but was told they would install for $1000 extra. Best $1000 I’ve ever spent, would have taken me DAYS and my body would have been destroyed.
I think you buy landscaping stuff by the yard not the weight so much