How much space? - 10t of mot1

Ouch · Post: # 103227Post **Ouch** Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:26 pm

I reckon I need about 10ton of mot1 for a sub-base for my my (2) patios.

Rather than getting a dozen or so bags, I was thinking it's be cheaper and quicker to have a SWB tipper drop in on my drive.

Said drive is about 8-10m long and 2m wide. It's taken several skip trucks, so I'm sure a SWB tipper would get up it, however I'm fairly sure that a 10 ton pile of gravel would spill off the edges of my stupidly narrow drive.

Question is, by how much?

Scouring the interwebs I found this site which suggests that 16tonnes will make a pile 17ft square, scaling this back 2/3 to 10tonnes-ish gives a pile about 3.5m square.. Does this sound right?

r896neo · Post: # 103229Post **r896neo** Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:07 pm

There is zero chance a 10t tipper will get into a 2m drive. The body of a 4 wheel 10t is probably about 8ft/ 2.4m Obviously its heavy too.

As for the size of the pile I had 10t delivered by tipper last week and the driveway was 3.4m wide. It overspilled the edges by a fraction. The driver can move forward as he tips which will make it a slightly longer and narrower pile put not so easy if he's trying to negotiate a 2m opening.

Ouch · Post: # 103230Post **Ouch** Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:10 pm

The opening is more like 3m, the skip wagons wheels are on the edge of the drive. The drive is fubar anyway, so I'm not precious about that.

Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:07 am

10 tonne will slightly overfill a normal parking space around 4 foot high
LLL

lemoncurd1702 · Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:20 am

Most grab lorry firms also supply aggregate which can be offloaded by grab. May cost a little more than tipped.

sy76uk · Post: # 103238Post **sy76uk** Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:12 pm

There is a little Travis Peqrkins just over the road from a little patio job I finished last week.
It was only 18m2 so I thought might as well get everything I need apart from the sandstone from there.
Â£48 per ton for mot. Â£7.50 for a bag of cement.
Needles to say I didn't bother.

Ouch · Post: # 103243Post **Ouch** Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:43 pm

i'd expect it gift wrapped and delivered by helicopter for that.

Ouch · Post: # 103420Post **Ouch** Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:39 pm

Just a follow-up on this, a local supplier has offered to supply in 3t loads on the back of a tipping transit size vehicle.

Win all round, as it'll definitely fit up the drive, and I can have the loads delivered over a couple of days to allow me to barrow the previous load round the back where it's needed.