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Cowracer
05-23-2005, 05:14 PM
For me it was 2088 cans of Coors light. (87- 24 can cases).

Sure had 'er hunkered down :eek:

Tim

CrazyDaze
05-23-2005, 05:48 PM
I'm not quite sure what my Lance Camper actually weighs but I put the truck on a Cat scale on my way to a 2 week vacation and I was 9388 on the rear axle and 4330 on the front axle. One of these days I'll weigh just the truck so I get a real good idea of what the camper actually weighs.

surfrippa
05-23-2005, 11:04 PM
For me it was 2088 cans of Coors light. (87- 24 can cases).

Sure had 'er hunkered down :eek:

Tim

1626.68 lbs, not that much, compared to a camper!

nobull1
05-24-2005, 11:18 PM
A clown at the gravel yard put close to 6 ton on my truck. My total was 20,800, which is way too much. I figure I was lucky not to break anything. I'm registerd for 17,600 and have seen it a few times. My weight empty is a little over 9000.

StretchTTU
05-25-2005, 12:21 AM
For me it was 2088 cans of Coors light. (87- 24 can cases).

Sure had 'er hunkered down :eek:

Tim

Hey, Tim! Where's the pic, man!? Gotta show us...

turbov6joe
05-25-2005, 12:23 AM
500 gallons of water @ 8.1 pounds/gallon = 4000 lbs +.

Cowracer
05-25-2005, 11:49 AM
Sorry Stretch, No Pics :( I took some, but I have since lost the files.

Without going into details (probably illegal, anyway :D ) a company I worked for had 9 skids of coors light to dispose of. We volunteered to come in on a saturday to 'help'. We were supposed to pour them down the drain, but the temptation to cart off a few was too much. It was like a feeding frenzy.

I saw a guy with a s-10 blazer that had so much in his, I dont think you could have turn it face up and POURED another beer in it.. He had the seats down and the back full, the passenger seat full, 4 cases in the engine bay, two under his legs and one in his lap! :eek: . That poor rig was flat on the bump stops on all four corners. I told him that if he wrecked, he would probably drown.

I managed to trade a lot of that beer for painting and landscaping around the house. Liquid Gold!

Tim

dkubek
05-26-2005, 12:28 AM
I had 3.5 tons of limestone gravel in mine once. Had stakes in the holes with plywood sides to make it deeper for more capacity. Handled it just fine.

Jackpine
05-26-2005, 06:01 PM
I had 65 3cf wet bags of mulch, which I'm guessing was >2.5 T, and all it did was improve the ride.

Arkie
06-25-2005, 08:19 AM
Haul 2 to 3 tons of bagged feed on dew eze flat bed all day long. Just a little top heavy like my mother in law.

Utundra
06-25-2005, 11:26 AM
Here are my weights from a CAT scale:
1. Full of fuel and my wife and me. 4360 Front, 3160 Rear = 7520
2. Full of fuel and my wife and me and 11' Lance Camper. Camper full of water propane, two batteries. 4520 front, 6940 Rear = 11,460.

So the camper is 3960 lbs. Now throw in camping gear and we are hauling around 4200 lbs. I won't win any slalom courses but it handles pretty good. With this load at 75 I get about 10.5 mpg, at 65 11.5 mpg.

But no one can top 87 cases of beer no matter how much it weighs.

McRat
06-25-2005, 11:42 AM
Bah! It was LIGHT beer. If it was HEAVY beer, it would have weighed more. :D

11.5' Lance here also. About 3000lb best guess. Weighed entire rig at 17,000lb. But I was towing a 22' car trailer with car and spares on it.