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[18 stoner]

Rob, when you weigh it can you weigh the back axle on its own?

 

Will be interesting to know how that compares with the max on the plate on the truck:thumbup1:

[RobRainford]

Unfourtunately no it's a weigh bridge designed for bin wagons and tractor trailers so it'll have to be the hole thing. Shame really as I'd like to see how it stands.

[18 stoner]

Can you not weigh it fully on, then again with an axle off the bridge?

[RobRainford]

rear axle max 1100, truck max 3210. with my post 97 licence i can have a total train weight of (3210+750) 3960, trailer and chipper weigh less than 500kg. i had 560KG conifer chip in this picture, and i could get more in, thinking of a small board at the tailgate to allow a little more. I was still within my limits. With the chip but no equipment was 2740 full and 2180 empty.

[Kev Stephenson]

You need to go with no trailer and just put the back axle on

 

If you have a rear axle allowance of 1100kg the trailer will exert say 40kg (easy to measure with a bit of wood and your bathroom scales) you had 560kg of chip in there leaving you only 500kg for the back of the truck.

 

I seem to remember on my d22 you could have 1000kg in the back so that 1100kg figure doesn't seem right. Rear axle limit was over 2000kg I am sure

 

You total train weight can't just be added together and spread where you like, you might need to carry all your kit on the trailer when coming back from jobs to allow you a bit more weight capacity in the truck for chip

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

I cant believe people shovel chip out FT... Buy a tipper lol its a tidy little set up for small stuff lower the roof hight and job done.

 

id like a little chipper like that for jobs through houses chip into a barrow then through the house bang tidy haha:001_tongue:

[SAM66S]

My van (too good for work!) with the old work horse behind it. sadly sold both of them to get something bigger with a larger train weight for towing

[RobRainford]

Kev: I weighed the truck with only chip. No other kit. I know the weight of trailer and chipper.

 

My licence means my gross train weight is reduced and adds onto the trucks mgw of 3210 to give me a total train weight of 3960. I could be mistaking my bonnet plate for axle weights. 1 was 1100 and 2 was 1700. I'm assuming 2 is rear axle. If so and assuming all the chip weight is on the back then I would still be under.

 

Unless I am confusing something but that's how I understand it

[Kev Stephenson]

Rob,

 

Regardless of the total train weight you can't go over on what the truck says I.e. 3210kg. Your license just means that regardless of what vehicle you are driving you can't pull a trailer capable of weighing more than 750kg full. You can't even pull an empty trailer capable of carrying 2000kg even if it weighs less than 750kg empty.

 

Your axle weights need to add up to at least the 3210kg assuming you have got the right figure for total truck weight limit otherwise you could never fill the van to it's read limit as one or both axles would be over their limits. There should be 4 numbers on the vin plate

 

Max vehicle

Max vehicle+trailer

Front axle

Back axle

 

Front +back usually = max vehicle

 

It could well be your navara is rated at 2700kg gross vehicle weight

[Johny Walker]

Rob,

 

Regardless of the total train weight you can't go over on what the truck says I.e. 3210kg. Your license just means that regardless of what vehicle you are driving you can't pull a trailer capable of weighing more than 750kg full. You can't even pull an empty trailer capable of carrying 2000kg even if it weighs less than 750kg empty.

 

Your axle weights need to add up to at least the 3210kg assuming you have got the right figure for total truck weight limit otherwise you could never fill the van to it's read limit as one or both axles would be over their limits. There should be 4 numbers on the vin plate

 

Max vehicle

Max vehicle+trailer

Front axle

Back axle

 

Front +back usually = max vehicle

 

It could well be your navara is rated at 2700kg gross vehicle weight

 

 

 

steady on kev ,:biggrin:lads an arb student he,s got certs an a arness you know ,