Builder's Bag Weights

[Lazy Sod]

I was wondering what might be the approximate weights of bags of a few common building materials. Sand, three quarter to dust, gravel etc.

 

[bobk]

8-900 kgs

 

[Lincs Lass]

They always state 850kg for lifting purposes

 

[Lincs Lass]

If its been bagged up dry and then sits in a merchant's yard and gets wet through ,a bag of sand gets much heavier

 

[Steevo]

Are we talking of bags in a builders merchant you're looking to purchase....or bags you've bagged yourself?

 

[Lazy Sod]

As sold by the builder's merchant.

 

[phillipe]

600kg loaded then soaked to 800kg

 

[Forever Fendt]

when our local merchants started doing them they called them 1 ton bags and now i notice they call them bulk bag no mention of weight

 

[designanddetail]

As they have no way of weighing a point of sale they cannot sell with a weight specified.

 

[TripleSix]

Bags are usually sized at 0.6CuM

 

[Lincs Lass]

when our local merchants started doing them they called them 1 ton bags and now i notice they call them bulk bag no mention of weight

As they have no way of weighing a point of sale they cannot sell with a weight specified.

We have Breedon Quarries locally ,,
They bag various materials onsite for numerous builders merchants.
Just a mountain of bags in different company names on separate wagons.
They bag stuff for my local building supplies ,if I buy a bag of 20 gravel from them ,its over £50per bag yet if I go in with my trailer for the same stuff bulk ,its £34 inc per tn (an actual tonne) not a short weight bag

 

[phillipe]

We have Breedon Quarries locally ,,
They bag various materials onsite for numerous builders merchants.
Just a mountain of bags in different company names on separate wagons.
They bag stuff for my local building supplies ,if I buy a bag of 20 gravel from them ,its over £50per bag yet if I go in with my trailer for the same stuff bulk ,its £34 inc per tn (an actual tonne) not a short weight bag

i i pay ,admittidly sixteen ton at a time,20 plus vat for 20 to dust,bag my own

 

[Lincs Lass]

I get my hardcore from 2 miles away ,,£10 pt ,shovel it into bags ,,as they havent got a weigh bridge and the shovel drivers are very generouse ,I all ways come away with atleast 2 1/2 t.
trying to tip stuff gently out of an 8T bucket into a 10ft trailer is abit hit and miss and a wild guess

 

[phillipe]

I get my hardcore from 2 miles away ,,£10 pt ,shovel it into bags ,,as they havent got a weigh bridge and the shovel drivers are very generouse ,I all ways come away with atleast 2 1/2 t.
trying to tip stuff gently out of an 8T bucket into a 10ft trailer is abit hit and miss and a wild guess

yes i know that one ,had a bloke i knew in the quarry ,who one day for a laugh dropped about 8 ton on me tranny pick up one day ,he laughed like a drain could hardly see the tranny

 

[Lazy Sod]

Thanks everybody.