Granpa Silver89 <SilverEightynine@earthlink.net> wrote:
[...]
: I weighed in at approx 7260 lb and weighed out at 4220 after unloading
: the rubble.
: A difference of 3040 LBS!? A Ton and a half?? I was floored. My GVWR is
: about 5700 Lbs. I could feel she was heavy and was sluggish on the drive
: there - but I had no idea it was that loaded down. I thought maybe I
: had 1000-1200 lbs. The concrete pile had been out in the rain and was
: pretty soggy - could the water had added the extra weight? I am trying
: to guess as to how much was in the bed. I took photos and once they are
: developed you can see just how much was in there.
According to some info I found, concrete and asphault weighs about
140 lbs per cubic foot. So, to make up 3040lbs, you would have had just
under 22 cubic feet. According to my (extremely rough) calculations,
that would put your bed at about 1/3 full.
So, definitely very possible. :-)
[...]
: I would have thought 4220 lbs for a V6 Gen I 4x4 was a lot of curb
: weight. I had always thought my Dak was lighter than that. I'm
: thinking of having it weighed at another station for comparison.
My club cab Gen II V8 with a tonneau, bed rails, spare, full tank
of gas and myself weighs 4200. For whatever that's worth. :-) You've
got a regular cab, but you do have the long bed and 4x4 over me which
will add weight. It could be right.
: Oh yeah - almost forgot - I backed into a couple trees LOL. Kinda have
: a curved bumper now. I know trees arn't a lamp post - but in my book
: its good nuff.
Hee hee hee! Dang, I thought we had cured you of that after you steered
through all those trees at the BBQ without hitting any! :-)
---Jon-
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