Reckon I can fit 20 yard skips-worth of waste in 6 van loads?

[Dace]

Grab lorries can carry a variety of materials, including: Soil

• Muck
• Green waste: flower cuttings, grass, hedge trimmings
• General rubbish
• Aggregates, concrete and topsoil

the 2 in my area wont sadly, but thanks.

Can someone tell me roughly how many loads a 3 metre van will actually take though. if its a 20 yards skips worth. 200ish rubble bags.
Id like to at least calcualte the costs. Thanks.

 

[bsr]

@JobAndKnock gave you the answer early in the thread. Ask your mate what the payload of the van is. Say the van can take 2 tonne then that's 2 cubic yards per van trip so ten trips. The payload is stamped on the data plate in the van.

Edit: I've had a look and max payload on a transit 350 is 1.5 tonne so you could be looking at a minimum of 10 trips.

 

[Old Salt]

We have a waste company locally who take clean hardcore for free. Rock up, unload the van into a skip, roll off. Problem is you could turn up and the skip is full! I got rid of about 15 small trailer loads over a period of 2 weeks.

 

[Diver Fred]

Looks like you could be needing up to 20 trips. In my parents area trailers over 1.25x1Mtr are not allowed in one counties tips. Those trailers are only allowed 3 trips per month.
Pick-Ups, vans and some estate cars* are not allowed without a prepaid license. And again limited access.
In the in-laws county tips license required for all vans, Pick-Ups and trailers. At one tip estate cars and SUV's are frowned upon unless the back seats are up and useable.

*They regard big Estate cars as traders vehicles - Volvo, Merc's and the like. Cars that in the past would have shown a Goods Vehicle RFL.

Me thinks you need to research this in your local area to prevent you and your mate ending up in trouble.

 

[RandomGrinch]

In addition to many of the restrictions listed above, to take a car derived van (up to transit size), to my tip would require a permit at £15 per visit - restricted to one visit per month.
...and since COVID, all visits have to be pre-booked online (with proof of residency on display), with a limit of two visits per month!
To me it has been brilliant; it's now a much calmer experience - not the previous free-for-all, with very few queues!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

So 10 trips = 5 months? That rubbish pile would be getting awfully smelly (wet plasterboard generates hydrogen sulphide), not to mention harmful to the environment (H2S combined with rainwater also makes acid rain)

 

[cdbe]

Where do you live that the council will let you tip 3.5 tonnes, and block a skip for an hour while you shovel it out of a van? Mine it's 6 bags of rubble per week, security guards and ANPR!. I'd get an 8 yard skip and put the heavy stuff in that, you might be surprised how much it holds. Weigh up what's left for your van - it's generally a weight not volume issue for building waste.
My last skip was £240, which is ridiculous, I used to tip my hardcore at a private recycling place using my one tonne trailer - went up from £10 to £20 and now £30 so no longer worth it - at least with the skip it's in and gone.
My biggest issue was an attack of skip anxiety - first of all I worried that it wouldn't all fit in, then I worried that I wouldn't fill it and would have wasted a load of money. I ended up hunting round and digging some extra soil out from behind the house to prepare for a future project. Then a builder down the road knocked on and asked if he could have some soil from the skip to build up a lawn - I nearly cried!, then he said his job was finished - his own skip was only half full and I was welcome to use it!!

 

[Dace]

is 3.5 tonnes including vehicle weight.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

So maximum 1.9 tonnes load, based on having owned twin wheel Transits and LDVs in the past

 

[Dace]

Googling a ford transit says gross vehiucle weight is 2600kg

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Depends on the model. Mine were what was colloquially referred to as "35 cwt" models - or 3.5tonne gvw these days

 

[Charlie George]

Where do you live that the council will let you tip 3.5 tonnes, and block a skip for an hour while you shovel it out of a van? Mine it's 6 bags of rubble per week, security guards and ANPR!. I'd get an 8 yard skip and put the heavy stuff in that, you might be surprised how much it holds. Weigh up what's left for your van - it's generally a weight not volume issue for building waste.

Agree 100% it's got to the point i'm scared to go the tip now, need a permit if using van, asking what you have, moving closer to you, staring while you hold a piece of wood with metal attached unsure/frightened where to put it, until they grunt and point at a certain skip, when i escape under that exit barrier the relief is overwhelming.

 

[gonch69]

This is trade waste price local to me

 

[gonch69]

10 bags a load may take you a while

 

[Dace]

They said their long wheel base sprinter is 1466kg, so I might do it if my mate is reliable.
Spoiler: he isnt.