Weight of chip per cubic metre?

[Dave177]

rounghly how many cubic metres are there to 1 ton of woodchip, looking to put in a new bay to store and sell the chip on to stobarts or someone similar and dont want to make it too small I would have thought being able to store 30 ton at a time would give a good amount of leeway, at the same time I dont want to be forking out for too many materials.

 

Thanks

[Shane]

I'm sure this has been discussed recently - depends on moisture, species, depth and therefore compaction of the load.

 

I usually recon about 3 mtrs per ton - if you want some margins to protect yourself against the vosa inspectors maybe work on 2.25 - 2.5

 

Weigh 10 ltrs of your chips, multiply weight by 100 and thats your weight per cu M.

but it don't allow for compaction

[DN22 Gardening]

i think the trailers the we used to load for Jenkins were 96mts3

 

if you made your bay able to hold 120 you should be fine

[Woodworks]

Here is a link that was recently posted on a thread called Stop giving your logs away. The weight of chip is mentioned in the link

 

http://nuke.biomasstradecentres.eu/Portals/0/D2.1.1%20-%20WOOD%20FUELS%20HANDBOOK_BTC_EN.pdf

[Dave177]

Cheers guys, all I needed to know