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Weight of wet sand per cubic yard?

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Clean quartz sand weighs 80-125 pounds per cubic foot depending on degree of compaction and moisture content. Usually folks figure sand at 100 pcf. There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard.

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Using the 100 pcf average weight for sand, and that there are 27 cubic feet in a yard, then 1 yards is equal to 27 cubic feet and at 100 pcf, the total weight is 2700 lbs, or 1.35 tons.

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The density of sand is determined by several factors including moisture content, whether it is packed or loose and if it contains gravel. Dry sand has a density of 1281 to 1602 kilograms per cubic meter, but wet packed sand has a density of 2082 kilograms per cubic meter.

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A yard of sand weighs approximately 1.3 tons or 2600 pounds.

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Grams perhaps but in lb it would more in the neighborhood of 3500lb

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1100-2000 pounds depending on soil composition

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I use 3000 pounds as a very close estimate.

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The weight (not mass) of dry sand is approx 86,000 pounds weight.

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The weight (not mass) is approx 104,000 pound weight.

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One cubic yard of dry, fine sand is approximately 2,500 pounds

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Dry, about 100 lbs.

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