Slightly Overloaded!!

[HHR]

1980 F700
23,100 GVW
Wood floored flatbed with hoist.
Mostly birch and maple that has been laying on the ground for a year.
What do you think the load weighs?

 

[HHR]

More photos.

 

[Bob77064]

Slightly more than that truck is rated for.

 

[Diamondpilot]

30,000# Did you have it weighed?

Chris

 

[HHR]

I have no idea what the truck weighs. It's a friend's truck and no scales were employed.

 

[SandburRanch]

27,033

 

[timswi]

Primary question : Did he make it to his destination?

 

[Cat_Driver]

Here is Arizona and Ca. Mexican come up here and take apart homes board, by board, by board and load them on pick up trucks an haul the wood back to Mexico.

Some day I'll shoot a picture with these things piles so high I wonder how they get under bridges.

The front tires are barely on the ground, yet I see one or two of these every few weeks.

Why they aren't pulled over every mile I don't know.

 

[HHR]

Primary question : Did he make it to his destination?

Yes! He makes a few trips a week (40-50 miles each way) loaded to the max. It's kinda scary.

 

[Bill 55]

Nothing falling off it ain't overloaded

 

[Martian]

40-50 miles would definitely be the max you'd want to go... And would want to stay away from the weigh stations the cops sit at or you'd be looking at a pretty hefty fine.

 

[crashz]

I assumed that this truck is purely an off-road truck, so I would have said: " Pile it higher!"

But 40-50 miles must be on some public roads.
By the looks of the truck (smashed fender, busted flatbed, load, CDL?, etc) it looks like a DOT officers wet dream. It has no rear tag though. Its gotta be an offroad truck. Right?

 

[HHR]

I assumed that this truck is purely an off-road truck, so I would have said: " Pile it higher!"

But 40-50 miles must be on some public roads.
By the looks of the truck (smashed fender, busted flatbed, load, CDL?, etc) it looks like a DOT officers wet dream. It has no rear tag though. Its gotta be an offroad truck. Right?

3 miles on the most rutted logging road I've seen and the rest is on public roads.

 

[travis potter]

It's not over loaded till the tires rub the bed.........................

 

[Verticaltrx]

Legally, based on the 23,100lb GVWR, it's probably over loaded. However, depending on what axles, spring package, frame type, etc it might be well within what the truck was built to haul, no idea on the weight though.

 

[aczlan]

By the looks of the truck (smashed fender, busted flatbed, load, CDL?, etc) it looks like a DOT officers wet dream. It has no rear tag though. Its gotta be an offroad truck. Right?

Don't forget the missing lights in the back .

Aaron Z

 

[acme97]

My guess would be 32,563.4 lbs. I base this on the length of the shadow, devided by the depth of the snow, multiplied by 2.43. Or I could have just pulled it from my 4th point of contact and have absolutely no idea!

 

[rd_macgregor]

I think you'd probably be looking at about 425 to 450 kg/m3. So, if those were 8' logs stacked 6' high on a 20' truck bed, it would be about 11,000 to 12,000 kg or about 26,000 lbs.... the extra weight should improve traction, though.
BOB

 

[me0418840987]

Probably more than mine. This figured to be about 5,346# on the back of my '31. Weighed one tie at 243#- there are 22. Springs weren't even fully flat. Wish I could find the picture with telephone poles cut up about 14' long, stacked 2' higher than the top of the roof. When they got to the top of the cab, they pushed them way foreward, I'm assuming to keep the front wheels on the ground, because the load on her in the picture below made the front light, look at where the center of balance is.

 

[HHR]

I know that a handful of the logs weighed at least 1000 pounds because the hydraulic bypass was kicking in on the skid steer.