Nice Explanation. Thanks you for making video.

Aren't you supposed to calculate the swell before calculating the trucks?

Nice explanation, but I got dizzy with the moving camera.

Plz show completely screen

I dont understand, i did this method when I did my ICC soil plan reading and still failed the exam. It is really frustating i dont know what im doing wrong

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This would have been a better video if your hand wasn't in the way.

In real world examples, it becomes a little more tricky when you have an Asphalt road running through three quarters of the grid and you have a building foundation running through one quarter of the grid. Then you have to account for their individual thicknesses avg it (3 x road thickness + 1 x building fdn thickness)/4 to get the average bottom elevation. Of course there are earthwork takeoff software like Roctek Winex etc. to automate all these calculations and get a very accurate cut/fill takeoff.

HI, Very nice example ... it was a good refresher on manual earthwork takeoff calculations for me ... just some minor corrections if I may point out please... one the 4th point 159-157.5 is 1.5 (instead of 2.5) and so the average is (.6+.3+1+1.5)/4 = 0.85 ft Fill Height. Vol = 30 ft x 30 ft x 0.85 ft = 765 c.ft. And I guess here's the important part.... since this fill is compacted and we have a soil shrinkage of 12% we need more soil i.e., 765 x 1.12 = 857 c.ft. / 27 cft per yd = 32 cyd. And 1 truck being 13 cyd. We need 32/13 = 2.46 that's approx 3 truck loads of soil fill. Same as your final answer luckily unless you can order 2 and a 1/2 truck loads. Anyways nice example. Thanks.

I'm lost, so once you figured 36.67 cy of fill required for this section wouldn't you then multiply 36.67 x 1.12 = 41 cubic yards? That's adding 12% for shrinkage? Or is it 12% less? -4.4 yards = 32.3 cubic yards? If the fill shrinks after compaction then 41 cubic yards would go in and be compacted down 12% = 37 cubic yards. Is this right?

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