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Kernowcam

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How much wood in a landy?
« on: May 05, 2021, 08:23:37 PM »
Any idea how many cubic meters of logs a lwb Land Rover with hard top,will take please?
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2021, 08:34:05 PM »
About this much ...



... or maybe:-




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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2021, 08:40:17 PM »
Just measure those log for me a minute please?

I found some dimensions s and it seems to be 2.45 cubic meters. Does that sound about right.?
1750 long, 1m high, 1.4 wide?


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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2021, 08:41:47 PM »
I suspect you might need a pretty formidable cargo guard...
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2021, 09:05:16 PM »
Why stop at just one load?

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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2021, 09:23:57 PM »
No idea. Just keep sticking them in.

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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2021, 10:29:14 PM »
....and pile some more on the back.
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2021, 11:52:52 PM »
Quote from: 34058 on May 05, 2021, 09:05:16 PM
Why stop at just one load?

David

A "B" reg series one? Presumably it was demobbed in '64?
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2021, 07:37:57 AM »
Quote from: Herald1360 on May 05, 2021, 11:52:52 PM
A "B" reg series one? Presumably it was demobbed in '64?

It was demobbed in '63 (I have a copy of the Ruddington auction catalogue) but not registered until '64.

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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2021, 09:03:19 AM »
Hi,

As wood usually floats, it's SG must be less than 1.

A gallon of water weighs 10lbs. There are 6.25gallons to a cubic foot, so a cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 lbs.

A cubic centimetre of water weighs one gram, therefore a cubic metre of water weighs 1,000,000,000 grams, or 1,000,000 kgs .... which suggest that my sums are wrong.  :stars

So, until somebody puts me right, I will assume that a cubic metre of water weights 1000grams. AKA 1 tonne.

Working backwards from that, it seems that 1 cubic millimetre of water weighs 1 gram.  :stars

I think it safe to simply assume that a cubic yard weigh less than a ton.

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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2021, 11:02:28 AM »
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2021, 03:18:58 PM »
If you fill out a lwb hard top to full capacity you will be well to the north side of 2.0 cubic metres.

Barring the exotic types of wood from other climes [both light such as balsa, and heavy such as some tropical and Aussie types which do not float] the specific gravity of wood varies wildly from around 0.5 to 0.9 depending on type and dryness.

Calculating to a weight gives from +1 tonne for the very lightest wood, up to 2. something tonnes for the heavy, wet types.
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2021, 04:55:07 PM »
Rosinanti what a good idea,
I need some more 3.6m for my landy.
Got 5 cubic meters of logs coming tomorrow.
Trailer 10’ long.
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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2021, 05:27:15 PM »
I'm minded of ...

"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood."


Meanwhile there's something fishy going on here ....


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Re: How much wood in a landy?
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2021, 05:54:38 PM »
This might help...

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