More accurately, it's a cubic yard.
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27 cubic feet. A yard of soil, or any bulk material is 1 cubic yard. For soil it is usually one bucketful at the landscape supply. It will typically cover a 12' x 12' area, 3 - 4" deep. If you are figuring for mulch you can use the same measurements. It is a measure of volume, not weight.
I just got seven cubic yards of dirt and it was a dump truck load. It was a couple tons. A cubic foot is aout 100 pounds. So figure 900 pounds per cubic yard.
If you are figuring that the dirt you received was 100lbs per cubic foot, than a cubic yard, which is 27 cubic feet, would weigh 2700lbs. So, 7 cubic yards using your figures of 100lbs per cubic foot should have weighed 18,900lbs.
A yard is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems, equivalent to 3 feet or 36 inches.
There are 27 feet in a cubic yard of soil. Soil can cost 12 dollars to 18 dollars a cubic yard.
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270lbs
This depends on many factors.
A cubic yard of navvy jack typically weighs around 2,400 to 2,800 pounds, depending on the specific composition and density of the material.
One cubic yard of compost takes up a space of 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet, which is equivalent to 27 cubic feet. This equates to roughly 202 gallons or 764 liters of volume.
Yards of what? Crushed rock, or Styrofoam peanuts? Keep in mind that some confusion exists with the yard. A yard is a unit of length, not volume. The unit of volume is the cubic yard. But when you get topsoil delivered from the local garden center, they may simply say "yard." How much a cubic yard of something weighs depends on what that something is.