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cubic yard
A GRW ballast wagon with a volume of 8 cubic yards
General information
Unit system
Imperial and US customary
Unit of
Volume
Symbol
yd3, cu yd
Conversions
1 yd3in ...
... is equal to ...
SI units
0.7645549 m3
Imperial and US customary
27 ft3
A cubic yard (symbol yd3)[1] is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in Canada and the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 meters) in length.
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Look up cubic metre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International...
of the other "yard", some suggest it originally derived from the girth of a person's waist, while others believe it originated as a cubic measure.[citation...
2022 except for historic and legacy applications." The cubic inch, cubic foot and cubicyard are commonly used for measuring volume. In addition, there...
lumber Cord, a unit of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood Cubicyard, equal to 27 cu ft Faggot (unit) History of measurement Orders of magnitude...
Central City, Kentucky. It was named the "Big Digger" and carried a 125-cubic-yard (96 m3) bucket on a 215-foot-long (66 m) boom. It was Marion Power Shovel's...
build Marion draglines from 1 to 8 cubicyards capacity. In 1927, they built Type-7 1-yard and Type-460 1.5-yard models. The deal to build Marion machines...
dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie. With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever...
for a comparison with other areas Area (geometry) Conversion of units Cubicyard Metrication in Canada Orders of magnitude (area) Square (algebra), Square...
mixer truck are currently in use. The most common truck capacity is 10 cubicyards (7.6 m3). Most concrete mixers in the UK are limited to a speed of 90...
20–63 mm (0.79–2.48 in) for coarse. One cubic metre of gravel typically weighs about 1,800 kg (4,000 lb), or one cubicyard weighs about 3,000 lb (1,400 kg)...
quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubicyard, and the term 'metric ton' The horsepower is now defined as...
A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi3) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the...
Fairweather Fault and triggered a rockslide of 30 million cubic meters (40 million cubicyards) and about 90 million tons into the narrow inlet of Lituya...
temperature of 62 °F (17 °C). The 1824 act went on to give this volume as 277.274 cubic inches (4.54371 litres). The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (c. 31) refined...
bucket and boom. The GEM was a 130 cubic-yard (99.4 m3) bucket and 170 ft (52 m) boom, while the Spade sported 105 cubic-yard (80 m3) bucket and 200 ft (61...
208,000 cubic feet per second (5,900 m3/s). The tunnels required 132,000 cubicyards (101,000 m3) of excavation and another 110,000 cubicyards (84,000 m3)...
A cubic metre per second (m3s−1, m3/s, cumecs or cubic meter per second in American English) is the unit of volumetric flow rate in the International System...
peak. In December 2022, Neom announced plans for Sindalah, a 1,100,000-cubic-yard luxury resort complex off the city coast. It is planned to have an 86-berth...
dumpers was the Muir-Hill, which was based on the Fordson tractor with 2 cubicyard bucket, driving on the front axle and steered by the back wheels. Devised...