Calculate Excavation Soil Volume

adds up fast so when we were originally looking at it the soil for this came down to right about here so this from this point here up to there was just a hill so what would you do if you're looking at this going I got to cut all this out I got to get rid of all of this what would you do so what I would do is I'd find the depth how far back I'm going how long of a run I'm doing and how wide it is so or how high it is so I'm getting those two three things in there I'm adding those up and I'm dividing it by two because it's a hill it's a slope so it's almost like a triangle and then I would do that by how many cubic yards I had and then I would multiply it by 1.25 for the fluff because it's going to take up a little bit more room in the truck once you unpack everything and pull it all out and then I would figure out how many truckloads it would take like you said how long it takes to go to this to The Dumping back here I know it probably takes 25 minutes one way to the dump I figure in hey it's going to take him sometimes 15 20 minutes to dump you don't always dump right away so I add a little bit bit of fluff in the running time as well too so we never lose out on that so the actual calculation is length time width time depth divide by 27 * 1.25 automatically converts space to cubic yards to fluffy cubic yards so length time width time depth creates the cubic yard Vol or it creates the volume and that's in cubic feet you divide by 27 to convert that to cubic yards and then you mul multiply by 1.25 because that just is this is hard compacted dirt and when you dig it it adds about 25% of course it depends on the material you're working in so that is a generalization that you've got to start to dial in on your own depending on what the soil conditions are like where you're where you're at now one of