Cubic Yards to Gills (UK) calculator

Cubic Yards

An easy way to answer “How much is a cubic yard?” is to compare it to common items you’ve seen and used. The most popular example of this is equating cubic yards to pickup trucks. In this case, the typical full-size truck bed can hold between 2-3 cubic yards of material. That means a 10 cubic yard dumpster can hold at least three pickup truck loads. 20 cubic yard dumpster – Equivalent to about six pickup truck loads. 30 cubic yard dumpster – Roughly equivalent to nine pickup trucks of debris. 40 cubic yard dumpster – Can hold about 12 pickup trucks of materials.

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Gills (UK)

Imperial Gill Brass Measure. Used to measure a gill of spirits served within an ale house or inn. This was a standard measure. When this was made pewter tankards were still widely used in the trade and they were not of a standard volume. Such measures often have several verification marks if they had not been tampered with over long periods.

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Cubic Yards to Gills (UK) Conversion Table

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• Cubic Yard (764.5549L)

  A cubic yard (symbol yd³) is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada, and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 meters) in length.

• Gill (UK) (0.1420653L)

  The gill or teacup is a unit of measurement for volume equal to a quarter of a pint. It is no longer in common use, except in regard to the volume of alcoholic spirits measures. 1 imperial gill equals to 5 imperial fluid ounces, 1⁄32 imperial gallon, 1⁄4 imperial pint, ≈ 142 ml, ≈ 1.2 US gills