What do you reckon this weighs

[Benji MacNab]

Weight - 1650 kgs, I go over a weighbridge nearly every day with a similar sized load.

[mark_j]

What do you reckon this weighs, felt really heavy. I'm going to have to weigh off one day to find out but there are no local weighbridges except the DOT one. Too scared to go there in case they do me.

 

Back is 2.5m x 1.6m and box is 1.6m high

 

Chip was leylandii

 

 

Nice landy, got anymore pics of it?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Haven't at the mo Mark.

 

it certainly works for a living and has never let me down in the five years I've had it. Mind you, if something even developes a squeek, it is either repaired or replaced straight away.

[Lee Winger]

Haven't at the mo Mark.

 

it certainly works for a living and has never let me down in the five years I've had it. Mind you, if something even developes a squeek, it is either repaired or replaced straight away.

 

That a good policy! I spare no expense on repairs or servicing...

[Pete Mctree]

There is a weigh bridge at Bamforths scrap yard in milnsbridge. Give em a few for there troubles and there happy

[MasterBlaster]

We load em 'til the stuff is spilling over the sides and you nearly pop a wheelie everytime you hit a bump!

[Arbocop]

looks like the extended sides are made of steel.

 

might be an idea to weight the landy empty, then look at your chassis weight plait and work out what you can put on it ??

 

I used to work in a yard that weighed in chip and green waste but the 100s tonne a day, and its mad how variable the weight can be, not just on species, but time of year, if it has been wet, if it rained on the way to the tip.

 

 

overloading not just a big fine can also be byby license.

 

and of course worst case sinario, loose control, hit another person and kill them.

 

overloading is a habitual problem in many industries, but is very very dangerous.

 

of course if you are going to tow your chipper behind it you need to add that weight in to your MAM too.

 

ho hum

 

arbocop

[MAX]

Has anyone ever been stoped for overloading? Don't know anyone that has.

[bill]

i know a few people who have been pulled. i have kept my chip box on the small side so its hard to overload.

[Arbocop]

chap i know in dorset runs a str8 outfit and got done 2 years ago fine in the thousands long story, but the overlading basically affected drivers licence and all sorts of stuff.

 

2 contractors hear in essex last year pulled made to get another lorry to come and unload the heavy stuff caution to company points to the driver

 

a lot of it depends were you live in essex happens all the time as do spot road cheaks

 

essex traffic police are very hard work

 

the most common pull round hear though it too heavy trailer/chipper behind wagon

 

arbocop