Bob Mannix wrote:

A single brick wall that size with no piers would be about 2 tonnes. Add
piers and other crap and 3-4 tonnes would be safe, I guess. If it's double
brick with piers then 5 tonnes might be too small. Unfortunately brick
doesn't pack well in skips if you just chuck it in and it will be the volume
when skipped that will be the determining factor I suspect.

Reminds me of when I once worked temporarily as a mini-skip truck
driver, many moons ago... once I had to collect a skip, apparently
loaded with rubble, but when I connected the chains and tried to lift
the thing it wouldn't even budge. It was only the fact that the van
stilts were dissapearing into the ground under the strain that I knew
the lifting gear definitely hadn't failed on me. "What exactly have you
got in here?" "Oh, just rubble and bricks" Anyway the punter was very
unhappy that he had to remove a fairly large amount of his crud, but was
a bit sheepish once the top layer of loose rubble had been removed, to
reveal that almost the entire skip was neatly packed with bricks, almost
like a solid block of dry-stone wall! God knows what it must have weighed!

David