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This gravel calculator estimates the tons and cubic yards for a rectangular area. Switch the material for a pea gravel calculator, crushed stone calculator, aggregate calculator, or crushed concrete calculator. It also works as a cubic yards to tons calculator and a tons to cubic yards calculator.
Tons to order
11.41tons
Planning estimate from the numbers you enter. Coverage, density, waste and price are assumptions, not a supplier quote or an engineering specification.
How it works
Find the cubic yards the same way as concrete: area in square feet, times depth in feet, divided by 27. Multiply yards by tons per cubic yard to get weight. The defaults are planning densities you can replace: 1.4 for gravel and aggregate, 1.3 for pea gravel, 1.5 for crushed stone, and 1.2 for crushed concrete. A supplier's ticket is the density that matters. Waste covers ruts and a base that is not perfectly flat.
Formula
The reverse, a tons to cubic yards calculator, is yards = tons ÷ density. Cost uses your price per ton times the order weight. Leave the price at whatever you were quoted, or at the placeholder, and label it as yours.
Example
That is the gravel driveway calculator example already filled in. The area is 600 square feet, 7.41 cubic yards in place, and 10.37 tons at 1.4 tons per yard. With 10% waste, order 11.41 tons. At $45 per ton the material is $513.33.
Tips
Loose gravel compacts. If the supplier sells by the ton before compaction, ask whether the depth you want is loose or compacted and raise the order if you need the finished surface to stay at 4 inches. Geotextile and edging are not in this count.
Equipment
A skid steer or compact loader is the usual way to place a driveway or a building pad. Dengaro finances business equipment from $15,000 to $2 million. Use the button to open the application with that equipment named. The tonnage is not sent as the financed amount.
Important questions
Enter the driveway length, width, and depth, then your price per ton. The cost line is material only. It does not include delivery, grading, fabric, or labor.
Multiply cubic yards by the tons-per-yard figure. At 1.4, one yard is 1.4 tons. Change the density and both the ton line and the yards-from-tons line follow it.
The pea gravel setting starts at 1.3 tons per cubic yard. Pea gravel, crushed stone, and recycled concrete all vary by source. Replace the number with the supplier's figure when you have it.
The crushed concrete calculator uses the same volume math with a lower starting density, 1.2 tons per yard. Coverage still depends on the gradation you buy.
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