Know your trailer weights!

[NIsaacs]

Just a fun thread. Guess what the GCW is of these two pic's.

 

[Cummins12V98]

30,000#.....

 

[mwilson]

27,500 lbs.



Mike.

 

[NIsaacs]

Opps! I mean per each



Nick

 

[Grizzly]

Your truck doesn't look like a 74 F350. It looks more like a 2nd gen 2500 Dodge.



Doesn't matter and I have no idea what the weights are, but both loads are too much for that truck.

 

[Mark31]

My 5030 Ford tractor, loader, grapple, weighted rear blade, gooseneck and truck weigh 23,600. A front engine Bobkitty has got to have a gob of counter weight and it looks like it does. But the tires don't look too bad and the Goat is not squatting that bad considering how far up on the gn you are and maybe you have air bags. It looks like the stout tag is about out of spring. You have more than a quarter pounder with cheese on both of them, though! I'll have to agree with Cummins 12V98: You're getting close to 30K on the goose and about 1500 less on the tag

 

[crispyboy]

I'd say about 13k for the bobcat/trailer plus 7k for the truck, combined ~20k.
My brothers deckover type trailer is ~4k alone.

 

[NIsaacs]

Your truck doesn't look like a 74 F350. It looks more like a 2nd gen 2500 Dodge.



Doesn't matter and I have no idea what the weights are, but both loads are too much for that truck.

Hey Griz, there are three trucks in my sig and yes the Ford would be ideal for the loads but the Dodge is just more comfy and modern and I don't haul like I did when I was logging.



Someone is real close, also several of you have a good eye and good info. Here are two more pics. of the load too far forward and too far back.



Nick

 

[NIsaacs]

I'd say about 13k for the bobcat/trailer plus 7k for the truck, combined ~20k.

My brothers deckover type trailer is ~4k alone.

Good guess, with obvious knowledge of trucks, trailers and equipment.



The bumper pull combo is 21,000, the gooseneck combo before the added counterweights is 22,500. The Bobcat is 10-10. 5k depending on how much weight I add to the rear.



Mark, not many people notice the front engine model, they are rare.



Bud, you are right on loading the loader a little farther back. I load it forward now to keep the heavy rear axle on the trailer more.



The thread topic is important so thank you for not weight bashing me.



Nick

 

[Mark31]

Nick, I was threatening to lower my estimates by a ton or so when you put up the new pictures. What, I guess, threw me was your pulling the 'Cat so far up on the gn trailer. I know that you know what you're doing, or you wouldn't have lived this long, pulling the loads that I've seen on here that you've pulled. So, when you pulled up so far, I thought you were trying to keep your tires below rated load. Were you deliberately trying to fool us? (LOL) Your loader's weight also fooled me. I've seen some smaller forklifts that would blow your mind at the amount of weight on the backend. It obviously didn't have the "cast" back there I thought. It must be long enough to compensate for lack of weight. I always enjoy what you post. Mark

 

[Cummins12V98]

Maybe you answered the question but what is the total combined weight of each pic at the top of page?

 

[NIsaacs]

Maybe you answered the question but what is the total combined weight of each pic at the top of page?

Yes, I did, see post #12.



Nick

 

[Bill Stockard]

Nick,



Why don't you install longer forks on the front engine Bob Cat?:-laf



Why such long forks?



Bill

 

[NIsaacs]

Good eye Bill Yes, they are 6 feet long! Remember the huge shed I moved last winter, the one we had to have two pilot cars for? Well... after all the work to set it where they wanted it... . they wanted it moved:-laf So I built the extensions and just carried it, about 300 feet. It worked good and took a lot of work out of the move.



Nick

 

[Bill Stockard]

Good eye Bill Yes, they are 6 feet long! Remember the huge shed I moved last winter, the one we had to have two pilot cars for? Well... after all the work to set it where they wanted it... . they wanted it moved:-laf So I built the extensions and just carried it, about 300 feet. It worked good and took a lot of work out of the move.



Nick

Thanks for the explanation. Yep, I remember the photo. I was curious and had been thinking of something that was palletized and bulky that needed forks that long, but couldn't come up with anything.



Bill