Recommendations for On-Board Weighing/Scales?

Do you have an old loader ?
Most new loaders even weigh what they are lifting, mine do.
Loader operator remembers what he can put on each truck they load on a regular basis. I have a scale in the pit for trucks to tare in and gross weights out on. Boy those loaders are accurate. I want maximum weight for obvious reasons, and lets say it is my end dumps in this equation, i want them to gross out between 117,000 and 118,000 pounds every trip, and very rarely are they under or over.

 

Ran a cat 980C loader with a weigh system installed. wow, it was really inaccurate. You had to come to a stop and just idle while lifting the bucket to get anywhere close to accurate. Still there was 3-4 tons variable on a load. It was better to just eye-ball it. That was a while ago, with an old loader.

 

My new 980M loaders are very accurate. Within a couple hundred pounds on a full bucket. Zero the system to the weight of the bucket, and go. Grapple loading logs is the same thing. Zero it to the weight of the grapple, and load the logging trucks up in the bush so accurately its almost scary. The driver can tell the scaler at the mill what it will weigh before he pulls onto the pad. I find bunk scales to be very much just a guess when loading logs. They narrowed it down to within 3000 pounds or so. But a new grapple loader can tell the driver before he is done you have this much on, want me to try and find a really small pecker pole, or good enough. I am prejudiced to, because running loader is my favorite job.

 

Must be a"stick loader". Steering with joysticks rather than a steering wheel. spinning a wheel for constant 90 degree turns all day wears you out.

 

I calibrated my bunk scales on the dot scales I have to pass through every day, and they, so far are good to a couple hundred pounds or so. I did not go through the whole fine tuning process of weighing 6 times and changing he calibration numbers that it gives you, supposedly it will get it down to 50 pounds. It does not measure my steer, But I know exactly what it will be with the front bunk maxed out, so is the steer.
The dot here gives us 1000 pound lee way. Up to 500 pounds over, is just a verbal warning over the radio. Between 500 and 1000, we are written up with a paperwork inspection, but the overweight does not go on your record until you are over the 1000 and are fined.
I am pretty good at getting the verbal on the radio 99% of the time. lol

 

My newer 980M models are stick.
My new 950gc models are still steering wheel.
The old 966 D and E models are all steering wheel. I am happy in the stick and the steering wheel ones, its not hard to spin the wheel. Bucket, grapples, forks, blade, or blower...doesn't matter to me.

 

You should try out a new 980M, you will be very impressed...nothing like the old C model.

 

Very kind of them to be so lenient.

 

I'm sure there is.
I made a joke with my boss that if he installed the weigh system on the old B loader I would work two weeks for free. He called me out on it, as much as they sucked, ergonomic nightmare. You could rest your arm and use your wrist on the C levers, but the B series you had to reach over a bit further and work stiff levers with a stretched arm.

He said it would be cheaper. I miss red-neck bosses.

 

The thousand pound deal is a statewide deal, the kind part depends on the man at any particular scales. lol

When We baled hay in Kansas, they could not give you an overweight ticket hauling out of the field, until you got to the first set of public scales, but in some places you had to cross a road to get off the scales and a few prick types would sit right there and nail you for crossing to the parking lot.lol