....can be fitted into a 12 yard skip?
Hiya all :->
With everything going brilliantly we now have not only a new yard and a very secure container area but also ......... a 12 yard turnaround skip arrangement for green waste in place.
The question is ...... how many bags of green waste do you think will go in the 'level load' 12 yarder?
My guys clip and chip as best as they can to max out the bags of waste - but only to the extent that a maximum of three people can lift the bag safely into the back of the Ford Ranger. (After that it's a simple quick 'lift and tip' out of the Ranger over the lip of the skip).
They're also great at max-ing out when it comes to larger shrubbery and branches.....anything thicker than a forearm goes on the wood burning pile.
So....as the 12 yarder gets filled an answer will appear :->. In the meantime.........
......how many bags do you/would you manage to cram in to it? And how would you do it please?
Cheers all, Eugene.
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My local skip company claim 150-180 black bags fit in a 12 yarder. I've not used a 12 yard so can't comment myself.
How much is it costing for a 12 yard skip?
Daniel Goree said:
Only reason i ask, is because if you had enough every two months for a grab lorry it would work out cheaper.
Okay, you (and anyone else beforehand) can change your guesstimate up until the skip and a 'full bag' image is shown.
But....Kieran throws his hat in the ring on '25 bags'.
Anyone else??
Cheers, Eugene.
Kieran Ray said:
i have a price from a grab co to grab and haul green waste to a local green waste site - £150 a load - plus the cost of dumping it on my green waste account, but they wouldn't even consider grabbing and tipping my green waste at a landfill because the tax is punitive.
A 12 yard makes sense, i've only ever used them for green waste as the skip comapanies i've had them from have been quite specific about what can go in one, because of the weight - fill it with rubble or clay and they'd never be able to haul it, even if they could pick the bin up....
of course, a cage trailer and a local green site charging £25 a tonne and you could find yourself quids in. what's a 12 yd nowadays? gotta be over £300 now surely?
chop it up small and let it compost to not very much - that's if you're slow enough filling it anyway.
Daniel Goree said:
A typical 12 yard skip has a capacity of 9.17m3 (according to this website: http://www.rabbitgroup.co.uk/skip_sizes.html) and a typical builders bag (90cmx90cmx90cm) has a capacity of 0.729m3 so technically you can fit 12 full bags in and have just over 0.4m3 of space left. Although you wont ever be filling these bags 100% full so I reckon a more realistic figure would be about 15-17 builders bags.
I would go higher than either Chris or Kieran, as you will be compacting it and letting the contents knit together, as well as the stuff breaking up smaller as the early loads dry...say 30, but if you report 50 I wouldn't be surprised.
If the waste is already chipped, as you say, it won't compact as much. I'd say 19 bags, what's the prize? ;-)
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