Hi All,
Any skip drivers out there that know what an average 6 or 8 yard skip weighs once loaded from either a building site or someone’s house. I obviously know it depends on what is in it but just as a general rule.
Tia
Skip in my dreams:
Hi All,Any skip drivers out there that know what an average 6 or 8 yard skip weighs once loaded from either a building site or someone’s house. I obviously know it depends on what is in it but just as a general rule.
Tia
as you say it depends whats in them, 8 cubic yard skip
wet concrete about 13.5 t
full of water about 6.1 t
general building waste old bricks/rubble may be some thing like - 10 ton -ish ?
and you will need to add the weight of the skip and I think they are about quarter ton empty ?
and if you were planning to put out to sea in one, may be a fishing trip with the boys on a very calm day, then you could probably squeeze about 70 blokes in before it went glug glug glug all the way to the bottom.
I cube = 1 tonne or 350 bricks
6 yard skip with builders waste about 2 or 3t if no soil in it. 6 yard skips used on house clearance can be less than a tonne.
Never done traditional skips but drove roros with 50 yard bins on full to the brim with compressed landfill-only waste and they could only weigh about 7t.
I did RoRos once on an eight legger. I was hauling foundry waste and weighed out of the yard at just under 32 tonnes every time.
I watched a guy trying to pick up a mini skip and his front wheels just went up in the air. He fetched the builders out and as far as I could tell, the skip was full of concrete slabs, all neatly stacked and with some on their edges to raise the sides a bit.
As others have said it’ll vary quite a bit a 6 yarder full of soil/spoil can be around about 8 tonnes but mixed builders waste can be lighter depending if they’ve compacted it with a digger or something! house clearance stuff will usually be lighter as it tends to be bulky stuff they throw away and it can be well under a tonne!
Thanks everyone,
It is as I thought, I was looking into buying a skip lorry but with the tipping costs, I don’t think it is viable without having a transfer station to separate the martial.
Cheers
Skip in my dreams:
separate the material
That makes me cringe. In my last job I’d be expected to help hand sort rubbish, totally soul destroying. On my last (half) day they stuck me on the picking belt, knowing full well I didn’t want to do it. I picked rubbish as expected and promptly threw it all into the same place. Once the boss realised and started one of his rants, I calmly removed my gloves, threw them over the side into the now contaminated recyclables and walked off site.
18T 4w skip wagon with 8yd skip on weigh approx 9.7t therefore 8t ish full skip of heavy , soil, clay etc.
4yd 6yd 12yd all usually light weight , household etc.
Other weights are available .
Jim
A good mate does House clearances, mainly rentals who buggered off, he can place most stuff for cash but does use a tip, he runs a twin wheel transit tipper, he sold his skip wagon because it made nothing
How long is a piece of rope?
I had two 35-cubic metre skips at the last project I worked on, one of them had to be emptied daily for old insulation wool, around 4000 pounds.
The other one was steel roofing, 16000 pounds or so.
Skip in my dreams:
Hi All,Any skip drivers out there that know what an average 6 or 8 yard skip weighs once loaded from either a building site or someone’s house. I obviously know it depends on what is in it but just as a general rule.
Tia
Don’t worry about the weight just bung em all on. 
Must be going home time. 
It did lean a little going out the gate off of the site. 
Throw a net on.
And lets go.
only two ?
I will raise you to three
I just love this guy
Anywhere between 1.5 to 3 tonne for mixed waste up to 8 - 10 tonne for soil or rubble. You could run your own lorry and use another firms transfer station but there’ll be tip charges to contend with.
Have known some of the bigger firms to hire in subbies in busy periods but what they do when the works dried up who knows?
years back i saw a skip truck try to lift a skip full of wet soil etc. it couldnt do it and the lift pump made a weird “doink doink” noise on each failed attempt. iv never forgotten that funny sound
corij:
years back i saw a skip truck try to lift a skip full of wet soil etc. it couldnt do it and the lift pump made a weird “doink doink” noise on each failed attempt. iv never forgotten that funny sound
I tried to pull a tree out of the ground with a hi-ab thing and it made some extraordinary noises, and so did the woman next door.
Bluey Circles:
only two ?I will raise you to three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSjIB1MtpEI just love this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WmFDxrBpjw
And we wonder why we aren’t trusted to keep our keys on loading bays!
The-Snowman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvbHPmT2XYQ
one word : BRILLIANT
The 2 heaviest things you are going to get in the average skip are wet concrete & wet clay. The standard 4 wheel 18ton skip lorry is capable of legally lifting & transporting an 8yd skip that is full of either. Not that it would be without its problems !
Chain skip driving is the easiest vocation you could choose if you want to persue a career that involves an LGV licence, it requires very little IQ.