Guessing weight

[river_thames]

How do you guys guess the weight of your load?

Leaf springs? Arches to wheel? Fancy scales? Weighbridge experience?

 

I had a friend fined the other day and we were sure he was under 3.5. He was 3.7 and now I'm paranoid!

[Ferguson system]

Combination of the things you mentioned. But it depends what you're carrying. Wood chip is 300-350 kg pr. m3. You can find charts/weight pr. m3 of loose materials (gravel, soil and so on) online to help you a bit on the way.

[peds]

21 minutes ago, Ferguson system said:

Combination of the things you mentioned. But it depends what you're carrying. Wood chip is 300-350 kg pr. m3. 

 

Is that all the variation would be, do you think? Chip from summer beech in leaf has to be a good bit heavier than ash felled in winter... I couldn't be sure, but it seems like it'd be more than that 15%.

 

Anyone ever printed a nice neat little table with different chip weights on it? Would be a handy resource to have.

 

 

[GarethM]

Unless you're in something like the down rated tippers with closing back doors, what they can't see the better.

 

Tip regularly through the day, don't take the chipper and go alone to keep the weight down.

 

Even the council do the above, as they know even the grass clipping can be borderline weight wise.

[manco]

fill it to the nipples and tell the filth to go catch a burglar

[GarethM]

Just now, manco said:

fill it to the nipples and tell the filth to go catch a burglar

Which is going to get the more severe punishment, being overloaded or the officers hurty feelings?.

[woody paul]

6 hours ago, GarethM said:

Unless you're in something like the down rated tippers with closing back doors, what they can't see the better.

 

Tip regularly through the day, don't take the chipper and go alone to keep the weight down.

 

Even the council do the above, as they know even the grass clipping can be borderline weight wise.

Exactly why I have full height tail boards. How often is it o just chuck a couple more bits on. 

[manco]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Which is going to get the more severe punishment, being overloaded or the officers hurty feelings?.

these days, occifers hurty feelings probably

[Dan Maynard]

7 hours ago, peds said:

Anyone ever printed a nice neat little table with different chip weights on it? Would be a handy resource to have.

@Ty Korrigan if anyone has

[Brushcutter]

The sensible thing to do would be to fit scales to every truck so you wouldn't have to worry. Each time I fill a grain lorry I get a weight ticket. 

 

In a more practical cost effective way. You need a 1 litre jug and a set of kitchen scales. Weigh 1 litre of material and times in my 1000. You now know the bulk density per M3 of your product. Weight it in kg. So if 1 litre of of woodchip weighted 0.3kg a M3 would be 300kg give or take. Not 100% given air spaces different wood leaf content but would give you an idea. If you weight a log and then estimate the cylinder size you can do the same. 

 

I know wheat weights roughly 750kg m3 so I need roughly 16 buckets to the lorry.