Weighing In
11-18-2006, 05:24 PM
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Weighing In
How do you weigh a heavy duty truck? And no one put heavy duty bathroom or hanging scales. Stop on by a weigh station? I'm curious how much my bed and bumper and grille guard weigh. If I find out how much my truck weighs then I'll be asking how much everyone else's truck weighs.
11-18-2006, 05:32 PM
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You can pull onto the CAT scales at the local truck stop...or, if you have a local landfill or scrap yard, they usually will print you a slip for free. I just went to the landfill today---she weighed in at a paltry 6300lbs with 1/4 tank and my scrawny butt
11-18-2006, 06:46 PM
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When i weighed mine i used a set of portable scales here on the farm, we use them for weighing crops from test plots , same scales that DOT officers carry with them.
11-18-2006, 07:19 PM
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i always wieghed mine at a buddies dairy be fore a pull, you can go to taylors feed store or postons in stephenville the should let u way ur truk, mine wieghs 9878 with a 1/8 tank of diesel and no bottles in it
11-18-2006, 07:28 PM
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Your's weighs that much? Mine might be over 10,000 then. (hopefully your welder weighs more than my armor) BTW do you need to update your username since your not 19 anymore? Also, do you still have the 97?
11-18-2006, 07:44 PM
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You can go to the truckstops or the scrapyard like others said. I weighed mine it at my old job, we had a scale for weighing trucks after they got load with rock. Mine weighed in at 6500 lbs with me in it and about 1/2 tank of fuel. i figured it would have been a little heavier.
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11-19-2006, 03:22 PM
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Most scrap yards and garbage dumps I have been to do not have certified scales, so they are rather inaccurate for static weight. All they care about is the difference in loaded v/s empty weight so they do not want to pay the costs for certification. One of my trucks is a F350 4x4 RC PSD and it weighs 6800 at a CAT scale but the local scrap yard consistantly shows my empty weight as 7900. My 91 D350 Cummins work truck weighs in at just under 16000 on a CAT scale, but like Rollover Pete its full of tools, fluids, & welders etc.
11-20-2006, 03:23 PM
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I had to go to the dump when I cleaned out the yard and thats how I found out how much mine weighed. I had put over a 1/2 ton of "stuff" in the bed, and when I weighed out I was at 7500 even. I do have a tool box on the truck, but I can't remember how much diesel in the tank.
11-20-2006, 07:14 PM
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I weighed mine when it was 3 days old. 2006 Ram 2500, diesel, auto, quad cab, short bed, 4x4. It weighed 6980 pounds on a certified scale. At my local excavating stone company. Full tank of fuel, no driver.