Hi guys,
I recent did some spring cleaning in the yard.... Here's what I put in the bed of my truck (04 Lariat, s/crew, 5.4 w/ tow pack)... Oh, and it was just me ni the truck with a little over half a tank.
Approx. 15-20 combined feet of railway tie (not the metal, the wood)..
One wheel barrow of soil, and some brush.

Well I went to the land fill, got weighed, and it came in at 3050kg (6710lbs). Now I'm not sure how much the rail tied weighed, but I man handled the largest one in there myself... so it couldn't have been super heavy..

Does that seem like a lot? I am going to look in my manual for how much I can haul, but that seemed real high. I thought with a full tank this truck comes in shy of 6000lbs... I did not have 700lbs of stuff in my bed and I had half a tank..

Any thoughts? Thank you.

 

I've been to the dump recently, and each time I weighed out at around 5700Lbs. In my county, they weigh in and weight out and charge you accordingly. I think I was around half tank each time plus just me in the truck. Same truck, 04 Lariat SuperCrew with tow package.

 

What did you weigh empty? It's possible the land fill scales aren't the most accurately maintained pieces of precision equipment. If you weigh 10,000 in and 9000 out, it is still the same as if you weigh 7,000 in and 6,000 out.

 

5700 was the empty weight. I weighed in at over 6000 both times.

I think the scales at the county dump are fairly accurate, although I doubt they're precise. Considering I weighed in around 5700 pounds each time, that leads me to believe in the scales accuracy.

 

Not 'accuracy' - consistency. It can be highly inaccurate but still exhibit good repeatability. The above post is right - the difference in full and empty should be a pretty good approximation of the actual difference. The wood cross-ties are heavier than you think, particularly if they have been in ground contact soaking up moisture.

 

I'm not sure what the GVWR is on the supercrew, but the GVWR on my Ex cab is 7200. The truck itself is about 5975 empty per the scrapyard scale. Even with me in it that still leaves room for 1000# more and still be "legal". As stated above, if those ties had been soaking up water for some time, they may be decieving as to what they actually weigh.