problems with being overweight

[flyingcow]

If you're not on a public way, don't worry about DOT.

If you were doing this 6 trips a day for a year? You might have some problems. But if it's a few loads once in a while, i wouldn't sweat it. You own it, means you fix it out of your pocket. just go easy.

 

[BoFuller]

They loaded it that full one time and asked me if I wanted to dump some. I said no, that I would go ahead and go for it. No DOT on these roads (cowpaths). And if I had to dump some along the way, the people living around there would jump for joy, as there would be some nice gravel on their old dirt road. I didn't plan on making a habit of it, but wondered how much damage could occur. In a couple weeks I will be making two trips a day for a week, trying to finish my drive. It's a 90 mile round-trip, almost 2 hours each way, so I like to get as much as I can to make it worthwhile. But I don't want to breakdown either, so I'll try to get it closer to the right amount.

Thanks for the input! :thumbsup:

 

[MarkV]

At first I thought you were going a short distance because you mentioned a 15 mile per hour travel speed. If you are doing that on a 90 mile trip, as you mentioned on your last post, I would look at you as a target for my local law enforcement. No way you are traveling 90 miles at 15 miles an hour in two hours.

MarkV

 

[BoFuller]

At first I thought you were going a short distance because you mentioned a 15 mile per hour travel speed. If you are doing that on a 90 mile trip, as you mentioned on your last post, I would look at you as a target for my local law enforcement. No way you are traveling 90 miles at 15 miles an hour in two hours.

MarkV

It's 90 miles round trip and two hours each way. I guess that averages out to 22.5 mph. There are a couple of streches where I can get 'er up to 45 for a minute or two, but mostly it is 15 to 20 mph.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Have you looked at paying to have it hauled in? Example, my neighbor has 2 dump trucks. One is a 76 Ford F700 with a 391 with a 5 speed that can haul 8 tons legally. The other is a 78 GMC C60 with 350 4 speed that can haul 6.5 tons legally. We only live 4 miles from the gravel pit but here is the kicker. When having my drive paved last year I needed fill. He would let me borrow either one like I have many times before. The Ford gets 5mpg and and the GMC about 4mpg so in round number I can do each round trip with 2 gallons of fuel @ $4 per gallon thats $8 per trip.

Here is the kicker. There is a guy with about 5 dump truck that are all Cummins Powered Quads that can haul 23.5 tons legally. He works by the hour and is very honest on his time. He charges a flat $75 per hour. So he can haul in one load what would take 4 loads in the GMC and 3 loads in the Ford. If you figure it cost me $8 per round trip that would cost me $32 in the GMC and $24 in round numbers in the Ford. He can easily do two trips in a hour and he once did 3 so that makes him about a wash plus I can do something else while he is running back and forth. Plus, whenever I borrow a piece of equipment I return it better than I got it. I am not going to use something for free. I changed the oil on the Ford the last time I used it for example. It holds 9/10 qts @ $3.50 per and the filter was $9 so there is no savings.

He has caught on also and even though my neighbor has 2 dump trucks he now realizes its just cheaper to let someone else to do it. Plus, with old equipment like this a issue is likely that only cost more money. Don't get me wrong, these trucks are great and have a place. Nothing beats them for mulch, top soil, and are great for fire wood because they are small enough to get into tight spaces and the yard without tearing it all up, but they are limited. No way I would drive one more than 25 miles.

Chris

 

[BoFuller]

I had some larger gravel hauled in for my base layer, but I have been hauling the limestone chat for the top. It cost about the same for me to do it either way, but I bought the dump truck because I enjoy driving it over to get the chat. If I was going to have it all hauled in, then I would never had bought the truck.

To me, making the drive is somewhat similar to the way I look at life - it's the journey, not the destination! :thumbsup:

 

[some zilch]

shouldnt he be down shifting a truck that size, and not relying on his service brakes to do all his stopping? if you are worried about wearing out brakes doing a couple of 6klb overweight runs in an L8000, you are driving it wrong.

 

[joemd11]

Well I find that my jeans don't fit and I haven't seen my knees in ...oh, this is about overloaded trucks. Sorry, couldn't resist

 

[bcp]

It's 90 miles round trip and two hours each way.

I thought Arizona was made of gravel, with no one living more than a few minutes from some.



Bruce

 

[BoFuller]

shouldnt he be down shifting a truck that size, and not relying on his service brakes to do all his stopping? if you are worried about wearing out brakes doing a couple of 6klb overweight runs in an L8000, you are driving it wrong.

Where did this come from?
I probably downshift a hundred times on one of these round trips, and maybe use my brakes for about 5 seconds when I have to open a gate.