That’s A Bunch Of Grass!

Thinking of Me Again's thread below, this shows an ACTUAL Ford at work.

It just tells us, no matter the size of the truck, someone will overload it!

Jerry

The truck may not be overloaded. Maybe somebody who knows about hay can tell us how much that load ought to weigh.

Truck it's self is probably not overloaded. Take 10k off and then take 15% of the load that's only 6,450#. My pin is 6k and I am at my RAWR of 9,750#.

RoyF wrote:
The truck may not be overloaded. Maybe somebody who knows about hay can tell us how much that load ought to weigh.

As much as I'm not the weight cops, I'm pretty sure the scale pic of just shy of 53k gcvw is a bit over every rating in the book, save for DOT bridge/axle laws.

Grit dog wrote:

RoyF wrote:
The truck may not be overloaded. Maybe somebody who knows about hay can tell us how much that load ought to weigh.

As much as I'm not the weight cops, I'm pretty sure the scale pic of just shy of 53k gcvw is a bit over every rating in the book, save for DOT bridge/axle laws.

Am I bad...but once again, I agree with Grit, concerning that scaled wt. Also looking at the axles of trailer, while a triple, they are well back from trailer center.

Jerry

at 52,900 Gross, no matter how you slice it, it's OVER something... somewhere.. AND I am FAR from the Weight Police..

Hay, hey! I didn’t join the weight police to bust hay framers.

Just a bit of tail squat. :B

Impressive!

I think he is over on the front axle. 19.5's which I assume a 450 would have is would not be rated to carry that much weight based on how they measure weight here at a port. I think that he is carrying silage that is baled not hay. I dont see hay weighing up like that. Silage is dense, wet and the texture of the material in pic doesn't look like hay. Regardless, that is a lot weight.