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The volume of crushed limestone in cubic yards.
About 1.35 short tons per cubic yard for dense-graded crushed limestone; dust content and gradation shift this either way.
Approximate weight
13.5 short tons
About 1.35 short tons per cubic yard for dense-graded crushed limestone; dust content and gradation shift this either way. A planning figure, not a specification. Confirm the actual density with your supplier before ordering by weight.
- Conversion factor applied
- 1.35 short tons per yd³
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Crushed Limestone Cubic Yards to Tons Calculator: 13.5 short tons — shown in imperial, US market. The link sets both, so the result they see is the one on your screen.
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- Typical bulk density used here: approximately 1.35 short tons per cubic yard
- Density varies with moisture, compaction and composition — the supplier's ticket weight governs
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- Crushed Limestone volume (yd³)
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- Conversion factor applied
- 1.35 short tons per yd³
Confidence note: About 1.35 short tons per cubic yard for dense-graded crushed limestone; dust content and gradation shift this either way. A planning figure, not a specification. Confirm the actual density with your supplier before ordering by weight.
What this calculation does not cover
- A heap judged by eye carries more error than the density ever will, and angular limestone with damp fines stands steeper than rounded gravel — steep enough to hold a cut face. Measure the shape that is there: base and height describe an intact cone, not a pile a loader has been into.
- Loads of stone are limited by weight, not by the capacity of the body: a tipper or a skip reaches its rated payload long before it is filled level. The yardage you started from will not tell you how many loads turn up — this tonnage will.
- This tonnage is a load as well as a purchase quantity, since a cubic yard of crushed limestone runs to well over a ton. Stockpiled on a suspended slab, over a basement, or beside an open excavation, it is a surcharge that has to have been allowed for.
Estimated cost — your price
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- Typical bulk density used here: approximately 1.35 short tons per cubic yard
- Density varies with moisture, compaction and composition — the supplier's ticket weight governs
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Crushed limestone is the workhorse sub-base material across much of North America, specified as a compacted thickness and sold by the ton. The conversion has to account for the fact that dense-graded material is designed to compact hard: the loose yardage that arrives is meaningfully more than the yardage that ends up in place, because the fines migrate into the voids under a roller. Ordering against the compacted requirement without allowing for that loss leaves the sub-base under specification, which shows up years later as settlement rather than immediately as a shortfall.