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Pick the closest material — density varies far more than most people expect.
Bulk density swings with moisture and compaction. Wet sand is 20% heavier than dry; compacted stone is heavier than the same stone loose in a pile. When a load limit is close, weigh a sample rather than trusting a table.
The volume of material.
For anything granular, be clear whether this is LOOSE volume — what arrives on the truck — or compacted volume in place, because the two differ by a wide margin and the same tonnage produces both. Ordering against an in-place figure under-orders every time. Quarried and recycled materials also carry moisture that adds to the delivered weight without adding usable volume.
Weight
3,370 lb
Typical dry loose densities. Moisture and compaction move real figures by 10-25%, so treat a result near a load limit as needing a weighbridge rather than a table.
- Metric tonnes
- 1.53 t
- US short tons
- 1.69 tons
- Pounds
- 3,371.11 lb
- Density used
- 99.88 pcf
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Material Weight Calculator: 3,371 lb — shown in imperial, US market. The link sets both, so the result they see is the one on your screen.
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How this was calculated
Formula source(s)
- Bulk densities: FHWA and state DOT aggregate handbooks; ACI 211 for normal-weight concrete at 2400 kg/m³
- Loose bulk densities vary with moisture content and compaction — figures here are typical dry loose values
Inputs used
- Material
- Gravel, dry loose (100 lb/ft³)
- Volume
- 1.25 yd³
Intermediate steps
- Metric tonnes
- 1.53 t
- US short tons
- 1.69 tons
- Pounds
- 3,371.11 lb
- Density used
- 99.88 pcf
Confidence note: Typical dry loose densities. Moisture and compaction move real figures by 10-25%, so treat a result near a load limit as needing a weighbridge rather than a table.
What this calculation does not cover
- The density table holds one typical figure per material, not the density of the product arriving on your truck. Parent rock, grading, moisture and how the pile was loaded all move real bulk density, and there is no input here for a supplier's measured density or for how wet the material is.
- Volume in, weight out - nothing here checks whether that weight is legal or carryable. Axle and gross vehicle limits, trailer and skip ratings, fill lines and the tare weight of the container itself are figures you have to bring yourself. A table density is also not a weighbridge ticket: where the answer lands near a load limit, get the load weighed.
- One density is applied to whatever volume you type, with no conversion between loose, compacted and in-ground volume. The list mixes loose figures (gravel, sand, topsoil, mulch) with placed ones (compacted asphalt, normal-weight concrete), so entering a compacted finished volume against a loose density understates the material you need to order.
- The whole quantity is treated as one clean, uniform material. Mixed or layered loads, oversize rock, rubble, the stone and root content in a real topsoil, and a stockpile saturated after rain are all outside the model.
- This is not a floor or slab loading check. Weight is only half of that question - span, how the load is spread and what the structure already carries decide the rest, and on a suspended floor or a mezzanine that is a structural engineer's calculation, not an arithmetic one.
Estimated cost — your price
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Sources checked 2026-09-05 · in the site-wide review of 2026-09-06 · v1.0.1
Regulatory standards & verification citations2
- Bulk densities: FHWA and state DOT aggregate handbooks; ACI 211 for normal-weight concrete at 2400 kg/m³
- Loose bulk densities vary with moisture content and compaction — figures here are typical dry loose values
Which documents these citations point at
Standards referenced: ACI 211 (American Concrete Institute, United States).
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