Yard of chip weight?

[Tree Reb]

I had a job once on a sheep station clearing scrub, floods were coming so they sent me into the sheds to help.

The job was de burring fleeces, Google doesn't know about that.

What a crap job, floods saved me.

Bathurst burr.

 

[Al Smith]

I sheared the smelly things when I was in high school .Made damned good money at it too .

 

[Al Smith]

Back to this weight per yard ,a revelation .A cord of most hardwood is about 2 tons .That same amount of chips, basically 4.7 cu yards would be about 22-2300 lbs using 500 lbs per yard .So it's a tad over half what the wood would weigh before it was chipped according to my calculater .

 

[rangerdanger]

I've always calculated it at 500lb per yard.

 

[stig]

Sheeps wool?

 

[Al Smith]

Well on that around 13 pounds per ewe depending on the breed .

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Back to this weight per yard ,a revelation .A cord of most hardwood is about 2 tons .That same amount of chips, basically 4.7 cu yards would be about 22-2300 lbs using 500 lbs per yard .So it's a tad over half what the wood would weigh before it was chipped according to my calculater .

So chipping is a good way for compacting the limbs but not at all for the rounds, if the onliest factor taken is the load density in the truck /trailer (in the hope to reduce the travel's number to the dump site).
I think at that time to time but I hadn't yet the right numbers to conclude.

 

[Old Monkey]

One thing about the Americans.
For a people who for many years were way ahead of the rest of us tecnologically, they sure measure the world and what is in it in a VERY oldfashioned way!

I live in a very religious area here, all measurements are in cubits.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

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[flushcut]

I live in a very religious area here, all measurements are in cubits.

So what's the weight of a cubit of chips?

 

[lumberjack]

A cubic cubit is an eighth of a yard, so roughly 69 lbs.

 

[treesmith]

So how much would a chipped cubit weigh?

 

[flushcut]

Sweet!

 

[Dave Shepard]

So how much would a chipped cubit weigh?

Doesn't that break some sort of commandment?

 

[flushcut]

Thou shalt not chip cubits on Sunday!

 

[18 stoner]

Just to clarify, chips here can vary from 250-350kgs per cubic meter dependant on type

 

[sotc]

Well how much does a ton of chips weigh?

 

[SkwerI]

You got me stumped on that one, Willie.

 

[FJR]

I bet it weighs the same as a ton of bricks

 

[treesmith]

Or a ton of feathers......

 

[MasterBlaster]

Youse guys!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well how much does a ton of chips weigh?

Are they on a 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton or larger truck?

 

[Burnham]

Silly Stephen...you know those antiquated phrases we all learned to quantify truck load ratings into have no relation to reality .

So it only confuses the question of how much a ton of ice cream weighs .

 

[sotc]

Has this been helpful Rajan? Or do we need to explain further?

 

[Burnham]