I thought that too after I wrote it, I was going to change it but I would then be lying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seth
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I thought that too after I wrote it, I was going to change it but I would then be lying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seth
How did you come about this official weight. Is that just what they charged you, or did they scale it out? Wet excevated clay weighs about 115 lbs/cubic foot. That looks to be about 2 - 2 1/2 cubic yards of dirt, so you are looking at 7500lbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroncoJo
By my officialy-calibrated eye. I figured about 2500 lbs a yard and 2 yards. I have a box in the back of the truck, so I dont even think I got a whole 2 yards.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
either way it sure doesn't look like 5,000 lbs of dirt now that is out of the truck.
Even with the box, I bet you still have the 2 cubic yards there. The bed will hold about 3 level full, and you have a pretty good bit above the rails in there
well actualy being there in person I figure about 2 yards or less, as I have said before. I figure that un-packed sand will weigh about 2,100-2,300 lbs, since this had some clay mixed in I added a couple hundred pounds for the clay chunks that were in it. Dirt expands alot when dropped from a bucket. Either way the truck was not overloaded, it looked that way from the 2-3 inches of lift on the front and was not unsafe by any means.
haha the internet is funny
Didn't mean to sound like an asswipe in the last post.
After embarrassing myself by getting a bilistien shock stuck, up-side down, for about a half hour on my truck I measured the bed. The truck will hold almost exactly 2 yards with my box in it(level to the top).
I might have "overloaded" the truck that day though when I pulled my neighbors dodge out which was hooked up to a 24 foot gooseneck. I deffinitly had plenty of traction though.
What were the measurements on the bed (I just want them for reference, not to dispute anything you said)? I might have came across as a bit of asswipeish myself there at the end. I never did think that you were overloaded, just gettin real close to the limit of what I would want to haul. I have had a yard or more dumped in the bed of my old S10 one time, and it looked way worse than the lean your's had. Thank the lord for rear bumpstops. :D
Don't remember exact measurements but I think they were 74.5x64.5x20.5. It equalled out to like 1.997yardsQuote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
That's including the box in the bed I take it?
yes
Impressed with the new intake. Achieved a record high mpg of 14.52, thats roughly a .34% increase.:gigem: Seriously thats pretty good as I was expecting 12-13 from that tank.
my dad ordered the AFE but was informed that it was not a good choice for extreme duty use. anyone know of another aftermarket filter housing that is better at filtering and not all about diesel rice?
Why is this in my thread? and what the f uck is extreme duty use? get the proguard.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
extreme duty is what happens in your front yard :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by BroncoJo
14.5? id park it and drive one of the fords at $3.50 a gallon.