materthegreater
Senior Member
The loader operator at this pit is very generous. I bet he called that 2 yards
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Overload of the Day
- Thread starter Birken Vogt
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cfherrman
Senior Member
I put around 1.5 yards of mason sand in my f250 a few years ago. Only a few mile trek so I took my time
materthegreater
Senior Member
Back again this morning and I saw a 550 with it's mud flaps dragging. Must be the aggregate here is like an ideal gas - it has to fill whatever volume is available!
Willie B
Senior Member
Just needs shorter mud flaps.
digger doug
Senior Member
Back in about 1970, my dad had an old F-150 (with the gas tank behind the seat)
and we went to the local gravel pit for some driveway gravel.....same kind of place, toss some cash,
no scale, and take the longer winding road back out of the pit.
cfherrman
Senior Member
Give it time
Willie B
Senior Member
I once moved a 28 foot log in a 1956 Dodge Power Wagon. Winched it into the 8' dump body. Only time the steering was ever one finger on the wheel! Wish I had a picture.
OzDozer
Senior Member
The brother and I moved a complete ripper assembly for our Allis-Chalmers HD11 tractor in the back of an EH Holden utility (pickup).
The EH Holden utility was rated to carry 1120lbs (half a U.K. ton or 508kgs), and we estimated the ripper assembly weighed around 3,500lbs (1588kgs) at least.
We pumped the back tyres (6.40x13's) up to 75psi and never went over 30mph (50kmh), because the steering was so light, you started to lose control over 30mph, due to a "tail-wag" starting.
We only had to move the ripper a few miles, on a low-traffic rural road, and that was probably a good thing!
Here's a fully restored EH Holden utility that is identical to the one we owned. But our EH had the "big" 179 (cu in) motor, so we had the 115HP powerhouse!
www.tradeuniquecars.com.au
The EH Holden utility was rated to carry 1120lbs (half a U.K. ton or 508kgs), and we estimated the ripper assembly weighed around 3,500lbs (1588kgs) at least.
We pumped the back tyres (6.40x13's) up to 75psi and never went over 30mph (50kmh), because the steering was so light, you started to lose control over 30mph, due to a "tail-wag" starting.
We only had to move the ripper a few miles, on a low-traffic rural road, and that was probably a good thing!
Here's a fully restored EH Holden utility that is identical to the one we owned. But our EH had the "big" 179 (cu in) motor, so we had the 115HP powerhouse!
1963 Holden EH Ute - Reader Resto
Peter Witheyman's still not quite sure about how and why he got started on the EH Holden ute rest...
Nige
Senior Member
Two complete 68A D8H steering clutches and brake drums about 200 miles in one of these......
It was interesting to say the least.
It was interesting to say the least.
OzDozer
Senior Member
Nige - Ha ha! My brother loaded a full set of D6C track rollers into the boot of his HG Holden sedan - whereby the rear subframes promptly sat on the rubber bump stops on the rear axle.
Then he drove 600+ kms to the city, to get the track rollers reconditioned - at highway speeds, over some pretty ordinary roads - and the constant bouncing of the rear subframes on the Holden axle bump stops, was enough to make the subframes sag pretty badly!
He was totally unaware of what was happening, until the outer body panel arches over the rear wheels, developed mysterious "crinkles" in them!
What had happened was, the subframes sagged so much, the wheel arch panels had no choice but to buckle!!
He got a body repair shop to straighten out the "crinkles", and then traded the car in!! He never even tried to straighten the subframes!
This is an exact example of the HG Holden he wrecked!
burnsandco.hibid.com
Then he drove 600+ kms to the city, to get the track rollers reconditioned - at highway speeds, over some pretty ordinary roads - and the constant bouncing of the rear subframes on the Holden axle bump stops, was enough to make the subframes sag pretty badly!
He was totally unaware of what was happening, until the outer body panel arches over the rear wheels, developed mysterious "crinkles" in them!
What had happened was, the subframes sagged so much, the wheel arch panels had no choice but to buckle!!
He got a body repair shop to straighten out the "crinkles", and then traded the car in!! He never even tried to straighten the subframes!
This is an exact example of the HG Holden he wrecked!
Hibid
DMiller
Senior Member
Have we not ALL done that to some level in our pasts?!!!
DMiller
Senior Member
Easier to spell dumass than Brainiac.
OzDozer
Senior Member
It really is quite amazing what you can fit into a little Japanese-origin hatchback. I've got a 1.5L 1981 Ford Laser (Mazda 323) 5 dr hatchback that I used for years as a runabout.
When the back seats are folded down, it has nearly as much cargo room as a small van. And it just sips the fuel.
Unfortunately, it stopped when an alloy manufacturing plug in the head rotted out and it dumped all the coolant in the oil.
I fixed the plug, then the fuel system started to play up, so I parked it up, and it hasn't run for quite a while. I really need to get it running again in this era of dreadful fuel prices, it would go for a fortnight on $20 worth of fuel.
When the back seats are folded down, it has nearly as much cargo room as a small van. And it just sips the fuel.
Unfortunately, it stopped when an alloy manufacturing plug in the head rotted out and it dumped all the coolant in the oil.
I fixed the plug, then the fuel system started to play up, so I parked it up, and it hasn't run for quite a while. I really need to get it running again in this era of dreadful fuel prices, it would go for a fortnight on $20 worth of fuel.