Ever wonder why construction sites have these massive piles of dirt, rock, or gravel just sitting there? That’s not a mess — it’s money in the making. Welcome to the world of stockpiling!
Stockpiling is one of the smartest, most underrated strategies on any jobsite — and it could be the difference between finishing under budget or bleeding cash.
In this video, we’re breaking down exactly what stockpiling is, why it’s critical in construction, and how the pros use it to save time, space, and serious money. Let’s dig in!.
[Published: 8 May 2025]
Transcript
So, another little short video for you So, another little short video for you guys just to have a quick chat through guys just to have a quick chat through stockpiling. Really effective way of stockpiling. Really effective way of storing materials on site.
We'll keep it storing materials on site. We'll keep it here. It can be used later.
Again, a here.It can be used later. Again, a nice little cost-saving exercise. Also, nice little cost-saving exercise.
Also, if you want to go down the environmental if you want to go down the environmental route, it means that if you imagine the route, it means that if you imagine the amount of lorries we would need down amount of lorries we would need down here to remove all this from site for here to remove all this from site for potentially the client to have to bring potentially the client to have to bring it back at a later date to to it back at a later date to to rellandscape the area that he's got. So, rellandscape the area that he's got.So, a nice bit of muck management. So, we a nice bit of muck management.
So, we keep it here and then uh and then the keep it here and then uh and then the the client can use it as a later on. So the client can use it as a later on. So stages of stock piling.
Obviously you stages of stock piling.Obviously you want to make sure that it's nice and want to make sure that it's nice and neat. It's stable. It doesn't slip.
It neat. It's stable. It doesn't slip.It doesn't move.
So we demarcate an area doesn't move. So we demarcate an area that the stock pile is going in so the that the stock pile is going in so the guys know where they need to be. guys know where they need to be.
Normally flag it out as you can see that Normally flag it out as you can see that we've got down here so they know not to we've got down here so they know not to to extend past into the client's garden to extend past into the client's garden or in a particular area. It might be an or in a particular area.It might be an environmental concern or something like environmental concern or something like that. So as part of the stock piling that.
So as part of the stock piling process, we make a nice big heap of soil process, we make a nice big heap of soil that you can see over there. Um we make that you can see over there. Um we make sure that we track it in with the sure that we track it in with the excavator so we just compact it enough excavator so we just compact it enough to stop any of it slipping and sliding.
to stop any of it slipping and sliding.We firm up the ground which allows us to We firm up the ground which allows us to safely drive the dumper on top to safely drive the dumper on top to restock and retip on top of the heap restock and retip on top of the heap again. Once we've done that, the process again. Once we've done that, the process behind us, sorry it's this side here, is behind us, sorry it's this side here, is we table top.
So the tabletop means we table top. So the tabletop means leveling it through, compacting it again leveling it through, compacting it again with the excavator. It leaves a nice with the excavator.It leaves a nice solid stable platform there.
So if we do solid stable platform there. So if we do need to revisit at a later date for more need to revisit at a later date for more material, we can put some more on top. material, we can put some more on top.
Vice versa, if we do need to move it, Vice versa, if we do need to move it, we've got a nice level platform to park we've got a nice level platform to park an excavator up there to load it out to an excavator up there to load it out to to reposition the material if we need to reposition the material if we need to. So, yeah, nice big piles of stock to.So, yeah, nice big piles of stock pile down here. And uh just a good pile down here.
And uh just a good example of how we can manage some muck example of how we can manage some muck on site to save some money.