Guessing weight

[josharb87]

On 09/09/2024 at 13:55, peds said:

 

Is that all the variation would be, do you think? Chip from summer beech in leaf has to be a good bit heavier than ash felled in winter... I couldn't be sure, but it seems like it'd be more than that 15%.

 

Anyone ever printed a nice neat little table with different chip weights on it? Would be a handy resource to have.

 

 

The heaviest I’ve weighed in was winter felled beech chip (surprisingly), 8m3 (full 12ft Ifor tipper) 4500kg load! So 560kg per m3

 

it definitely felt heavy towing too 

[peds]

Don't forget to weigh several different one litre samples of each wood type and average them out! Science demands the accuracy of a few grams either way. 

[peds]

18 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

The heaviest I’ve weighed in was winter felled beech chip (surprisingly),

 

Very surprising, I would have assumed that summer wood would be heavier.  I'd say it's definitely worth looking into. Maybe I'll take a few litre samples as described on the previous page and make that handy little table!

Check back in a few years for the results 😉

[Ty Korrigan]

On 09/09/2024 at 21:05, Dan Maynard said:

@Ty Korrigan if anyone has

Well, now that is a project for me ..

[GarethM]

1 minute ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Well, now that is a project for me ..

How are you going to factor in the British weather on the moisture of the already wet woodchip?.

[Dan Maynard]

13 hours ago, peds said:

 

Very surprising, I would have assumed that summer wood would be heavier.  I'd say it's definitely worth looking into. Maybe I'll take a few litre samples as described on the previous page and make that handy little table!

Check back in a few years for the results 😉

Summer chip usually has leaves in, I'd say that adds air space.

[peds]

Right, someone get a newby to pick all of the green bits out of the chip box, then weigh it. 

[manco]

i think youre all forgetting the amount of fuel in your truck, the kit youve left in it when you go to tip, the size of the driver, any rain falling while driving to tip (mentioned above), dirt on tires, dirt in weighbridge, and the small-mindedness of the jobsworth that pulls over a carefully driven working truck thats just trying to make a reasonable living and not zooming around the place overloaded and spilling woodchip on roundabouts.

 

the only way to be really safe is with a half load.

or lots of trips and weighing so experience can tell you almost exactly whats a 90% load.

down to 0.2 of a ton could be a difference of a couple of decent branches.

[GarethM]

I'm sorry officer it's my 1st day, isn't this your name in huge letters on the van. Yes officer, erm.

[Mark Bolam]

I think rain would make a big difference.

If you had a legal load of chip on an open back and it pissed hard you’d soon be over.

 

I reckon I’m legal with about 2m3 on my Transit, which isn’t even a level load in the bed, never mind the greedy boards.