The use of the birthing chair or similar devices has been seen around the globe, not isolated to a particular region. The birthing chair can be traced to Egypt in the year 1450 B.C.E. Pictured on the walls of The Birth House at Luxor, Egypt, is an Egyptian queen giving birth on a stool. It can also be traced to Greece in 200 B.C as it is featured on an ancient Grecian sculpted votive.
Water weighs 64 pounds per cubic foot and there are 27 cubic feet in one cubic yard. So a cubic yard of seawater weighs 1728 pounds. The original VW Beetle weighed only 1650 pounds! If that seems hard to believe, consider that 1 cubic foot is almost 7.5 gallons, and a cubic yard is more than 201 gallons.
How Much Does A Cubic Yard Of Dirt Weigh? The average cubic yard of dry fill dirt will typically weigh as much as 2,000 pounds. If it is made up of a mixture of sand, stone and gravel, the weight can easily exceed 3,000 pounds per cubic yard. Depending on the composition and moisture content of the dirt, a cubic yard can weigh from 2,000 â 2,700 pounds. If the dirt is mostly made up of topsoil and organic material, a cubic yard of it will weigh as much as 1,080 pounds. If the dirt is made up mostly of sand, it can weigh as much as 2,600 â 3,000 pounds.