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4 people can lift one, a fork-lift can lift one with some weight on the lifting end to counter-balance it. I wager more like 800 lbs for the box. Some may beg to differ, but most men can lift their own weight, and I'd say the average man is around 200 lbs, give or take a few. It's not an easy move with 4 men, but it's not the most difficult thing to do either.
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Originally Posted by andym
My buddy and I lifted my bed off my '90 F-150. Just two of us, and I know for a fact I can't lift 400 lbs. I would say it weighed 200 max.
You'd be surprised what you can lift, at times... You might have lifted it off, but it;s weight would surprise you. My 69 Ford was 5900 lbs+, box on, full tank of fuel(only one tank, in cab) and with box off, was only 5100 lbs...same settings for driver and fuel. Newer trucks may have lighter boxes...but that one tipped in at that weight. I scaled it before and after out of curiousity before I built a deck for it. Wanted the suspension relatively balanced when I built the deck. Was my only purpose for doing so.
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bed weight
My buddy and I lifted,carried and set in place a 78' 8ft bed up onto a 1979 f250 4x4.Thats lifting up out of the shipping crate and about a 50 to 75ft walk across the lot into the garage.And if I remember the bill of lateing from the shipping company set the weight at 500lbs.Now figure knock off the weight of the wooden shipping crate and also remember it was sent with a tailgate but tailgate was not installed so knock off 100 pounds for the shipping crate and roughly 75lbs for the tailgate and you are in the neighborhood of 325lbs.Not exact science by any means but a ballpark figure.
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