How much does this weigh?
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How much does this weigh?
Well, maybe this would be a good thread for anyone to post questions on how much something weighs. Me, I have no clue what this would weigh, but it got me curious. It brought my truck down lower than a full load of wood. It's some wet mulch. Soaking wet. I figured that'd be a good time to get it, because it'd be more compressed, lol. This was '3 scoops'. I know, I post some stupid questions, but I like talking about this stuff. So, any ideas? Oh yeah, with this load in the back, I pulled a hill in a yard in 2wd without slipping a tire, whereas in 2wd with no load, I wouldn't be able to get up. But, that's normal... anyways, any ideas on what a load of mulch like that would weigh?
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I know this was 2150, it was a load of pea gravel when we were redoing my GF's dads pool, he borrowed the truck, I got the 'Vette for a month... He also forgot to pump the tires up to 50 from 35 like I told him, I run them low for a better ride when not hauling, they are Load range "C" tires. It took the springs flat, but never bottomed out. I've done this on a few occasions with both pea gravel and crush n run.
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Thanks for the responses. So, a cubic yard of dirt is 1500 lbs? I wouldn't have guessed it weighed that much. What are these trucks rated to hold? I have overloads, but that's just to help the ride with a load. I have the 9" 3.50 rear.
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Mulch is lighter than dirt, I searched briefly and came up with 800-1000 lbs per yard. F150 is a half ton truck, rated to haul 1000 lbs, 250 is 3/4 ton and 350 is rated for a full ton. I haul 4 tons in my 350 occasionally with no problems though
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Aren't those the old school ratings? I was thinking my axle was rated for 1650lbs, and I don't remember my GVWR. But, does that rating mean, or try to say, that 1650lbs is all the bed can hold? Now, I could be off on that number. I'd have to get my book out of my truck. A 500 pound ATV doesn't bring it down at all, so I'm thinking it must have weighed nearly 2000 pounds like some of the estimates.
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Dirt weight is really tricky to guesstimate. It ALL depends on the amount of moisture in the dirt. Dry looking dirt that contains 60% water is going to be a lot heavier than dry looking dirt that only contains 20% moisture. Get into wet looking dirt and you can be hauling as much water as you are dirt. That will be some heavy stuff.
When my son and I built a shed in his back yard, we hauled the dirt away from the foundation hole. We had my '84 F250 4x4 filled to the top of the 8' bed and humped up about a foot or so in the middle. That was at least 3.5 cu. yds., maybe a bit more. I'm guessing that weight at about 2400 lbs.
We also hauled a cu. yd. of gravel for the underlayment of the shed's concrete floor. That load was about 2700 lbs.
In a landscaping project at my daughter's place last summer, we hauled two loads of 3 cu. yds. of bark chips each in the truck but they were pretty dry and probably only weighed around 600-700 lbs. / yd.
The last item we hauled was a full pallet of wood pellets. It weighted about 2100 lbs. and pushed the suspension down a little less than the dirt and quite a bit less than the gravel.
My truck may be just the "light duty" version of the F250 (GVW 6800 lbs) but it can work hard when necessary... harder than I can, at any rate.
When my son and I built a shed in his back yard, we hauled the dirt away from the foundation hole. We had my '84 F250 4x4 filled to the top of the 8' bed and humped up about a foot or so in the middle. That was at least 3.5 cu. yds., maybe a bit more. I'm guessing that weight at about 2400 lbs.
We also hauled a cu. yd. of gravel for the underlayment of the shed's concrete floor. That load was about 2700 lbs.
In a landscaping project at my daughter's place last summer, we hauled two loads of 3 cu. yds. of bark chips each in the truck but they were pretty dry and probably only weighed around 600-700 lbs. / yd.
The last item we hauled was a full pallet of wood pellets. It weighted about 2100 lbs. and pushed the suspension down a little less than the dirt and quite a bit less than the gravel.
My truck may be just the "light duty" version of the F250 (GVW 6800 lbs) but it can work hard when necessary... harder than I can, at any rate.
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