Curt BetterWeigh?
Curious if anyone has tried this? Looks like it would be interesting, if it is accurate. Mixed reviews on Amazon. Clicky
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mkirsch wrote:Grit dog wrote:
(I also got pretty proficient at welding frames and spring perches and replacing axle shafts!)
Isn't this precisely why you would want to be "niggling" over weights?
You've overloaded. You've seen what happens. Yet, you take a cavalier "who cares? if it fits it ships!" attitude toward it.
There's also a huge difference between experienced people who do it for a living on short hauls across town, vs. clueless rookies traveling hundreds of miles grossly overloaded. At your landscape job you'd limp the broken truck 5 miles back to the shop and fix it yourself. No big deal. That's not an option out on the road. Very few people have their own shops within 5 miles at all times no matter where they are. Very few people are capable of fixing those kinds of issues themselves. So, why not avoid them? I guess it's no fun that way?
No, apologies as I wasn’t clear and you misinterpreted what I said (because I wasn’t clear).
These trucks were “nominally” overloaded (idk, say couple thousand lbs or whatever) very frequently. Daily in some cases.
The failures I referenced were from severe overloading. Like a 10klb skid steer in the dump box of a standard 1 ton dually 1980s truck, hooked to a bumper pull tag trailer that was 20k if it was a pound.
And severe overloading like that broke parts. Or in other words, I got to see the structural limitations of static and dynamic loading to the point of failure. And it was FAR more than exceeding the payload or hitch rating by 1000 or 2000 lbs.
Following that, building roads and bridges, many times out of under sized, overloaded trucks, allowed me to gain more perspective.
I understand many just are weekend warriors with their trucks and little real world “work” or understanding. And that’s cool. And the reason I’m providing perspective.
Mostly for the keyboard experts who are misleading the person asking the question by proclaiming ….well, proclaiming all the silly things we see here on the great rv.net, without the knowledge or experience to back it up.
Difference between me and them is I stay silent on things I do not have knowledge of and the folks I’m referring to can’t help but add their (sometimes false, conjured up) 2 cents.
