Cubic Yards to US Barrels (Oil) 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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US Barrels (Oil)

Stock of the various oil barrels.

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Cubic Yards to US Barrels (Oil) 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.
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  US Barrel (Oil) (158.9873L)

  A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the UK beer barrel and US beer barrel), oil barrels and so on. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units are roughly double the volumes of others; volumes in common usage range from about 100 to 200 litres (22 to 44 imp gal; 26 to 53 US gal). In many connections the term "drum" is used almost interchangeably with "barrel". In the worldwide oil industry, an oil barrel is defined as 42 US gallons, which is about 159 litres or 35 imperial gallons.