So you were lopsided carrying them up the steps or you have one arm stronger than the other...................
Another maths puzzle
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
I think her wife is hiding in Fabian's closet!
Milkfloat
An Peanut
That makes this puzzle even more a puzzle, who did the other half?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
Along with my husband ...I think her wife is hiding in Fabian's closet!
OP
OP
In order to avoid the complexities of the relative volume of the buckets, you may presume that I loaded them equally. The inequality of the load is due to the weight of the buckets, not the soil contained therein. I realise now that I should have mentionned in my parameters that the gardener dug up the turf with about 3 inches of soil still attached, and that the pieces were say, by and large, on average, 6 inches by 12 inches in area.
Tin Pot
Guru
I would like to make the flower borders in my garden narrower than they are now. The lady who lives opposite me has employed a landscape gardener to dig up her garden, and put in a large patio. She very kindly agreed to let me have the top soil and turf from her garden. Are you with me so far?
The gardener's wheelbarrow is very large, with a bucket say about 30" long, 15" deep and 20" wide. He tipped about twelve barrows' full of soil/turf on the end of my garden. The turf and topsoil are needed in the back garden, and there are twelve steps all approximately 8" high.
Using two fairly equally loaded buckets, how much surf/topsoil in total did I carry up the steps?Unfortunately I did not count the number of times I walked up the steps carrying topsoil.
None. You don't need more topsoil to make your flower borders narrower.
OP
OP
When was the last time you did any gardening?
The level of the soil in the flower and shrub borders is about 3 inches below that of the lawn. Topsoil is needed to bring any new turf to the level of the existing lawn. Some of the turf that I carted up the steps has been placed where it is needed, but the edges of the borders have not been properly prepared.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
Well I reckon you just turfed the lot up the steps as hard as you could throw. No need to walk at all.
First pun to me
First pun to me
OP
OP
Well I reckon you just turfed the lot up the steps as hard as you could throw. No need to walk at all.
First pun to me
Would that have been overarm or underarm bowling?
OP
OP
but wrong.
Tin Pot
Guru
My flower beds are raised, not lowered - You mean this is a serious question?!
You provide no information about the area of the flowerbeds or how much you narrowed it, and yet provide wonderully irrelevant gems like the height of the steps.
Bon chance.
OP
OP
That was my first calculation, but seemed very high.
Judging from the heap at the end of my front garden, it must have been at least very near one cubic metre in volume, still very heavy.
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