The Brew Cabin

Posted: **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?

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:07 am**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:43 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

The Brew Cabin

How much space? - 10t of mot1