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Ernie Willson

wrote:
Thank you again for all the replies. The neighbor said that she
doesn't really care too much about her lawn (if you can believe
that). And I said that I would work my best to fix any damage, should
any occur. Perhaps I will double up the plywood to 1" thick and see
what happens. Moving the plywood several times is going to be a hell
of a lot easier than moving 5 tons of crushed stone via wheelbarrow.
And afterwards, I don't care about the plywood at all - I bought it
pretty much to sacrifice. Another bonus is that I have 2 pallets of
concrete pavers coming in before the stone - and they use a heavy duty
forklift - so I can see how that fares before increasing the weight to
a full truck. thx...I'll let you know how it turns out. Jus curious
- anyone know approx how many wheelbarrow trips it would take to move
5 tons of crushed stone anyway?

I think you may have more of a problem with the wheel loading from the
forklift truck than the stone delivery truck. Nonetheless I think 1 inch
of plywood will handle it.

A wheelbarrow will hold about 1 cubic foot. A cubic foot of stone
weighs about 150 pounds. 10000 lbs divided by 150 lbs/wheelbarrow gives
us about 65 loads. I had estimated about 75 in an earlier post.

HTH,

EJ in NJ