builders barrow

[mrghm]

Hi,

Question for all, how much of a m3 does a builders barrow hold.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Depends on how much you load into them. D:
however you can do the math. There are 8 barrows to a tonne and a tonne of sand is about 1.3 cu.m .
I'm off for a beer, my brain hurts.

[SawDustSniffer]

um i thought there were 14 barrow loads of cement to a m^3
not quite full barrows ,:eek: reminds me of work
why dont you balence the barrow on some scales and fill it up with water
1tonne per 1m^3

back to drinking bear

[Iain]

back to drinking bear

[Barry_White]

You can vary the cubic metres depending what you are putting in the barrow .

You can stack fire wood a foot above the top of the barrow dirt about 8 inches above the top.

But you can't stack wet concrete above the top.

You really need to be specific as to what you want to put in it.

The other question is whatever it is, can you lift it as well as balance it while you wheel the barrow.

[Iain]

But you can't stack wet concrete above the top.

Yes you can!!!!!!
Back to school boy and re read your physics

[Barry_White]

Yes you can!!!!!!
Back to school boy and re read your physics

Yes but by the time you have wheeled the barrow 20 feet it will have found its own level or will be slopping over the sides or you will have tipped the barrow over where you don't want it.

I've wheeled enough concrete to know.

Never learnt the theory of physics only the practice of wheeling the concrete.

[Iain]

I was of course referring to the meniscus, which would never take into account the perfectly flat smooth builders site, superbly smooth wheelbarrow suspension etc

[Black Ned]

Clyde Barrow would take the contents of a bank

[Bleedin Thumb]

Iain, Correct me if I'm wrong, (I am sure someone will) but doesn't the meniscus go up the sides of the vesicle therefore you would not be filling above the rim?

[Barry_White]

Iain, Correct me if I'm wrong, (I am sure someone will) but doesn't the meniscus go up the sides of the vesicle therefore you would not be filling above the rim?

Can mean either depends on whether the side of the contaner is wet or dry.

http://www.answers.com/topic/meniscus

[Iain]

I thought it was to do with surface tension, below the top it was concave, above convex.
But it's a long time since I was at high school and uni didn't address this with my subjects.

[Barry_White]

I thought it was to do with surface tension, below the top it was concave, above convex.
But it's a long time since I was at high school and uni didn't address this with my subjects.

That's OK I didn't even know what the word meant until I Googled it.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Either way I recon concrete would have a miniscule miniscus.
Try saying that 10 times really fast.

[Barry_White]

I was of course referring to the meniscus, which would never take into account the perfectly flat smooth builders site, superbly smooth wheelbarrow suspension etc

Even on that basis as soon as you lift the barrow your done for.

Shouldn't all this drivel be in the Friday thread.