Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Who better to explain it than Mr. Dirty himself Mike Rowe

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29912-dirty-jobs-frac-tank-maintenance-video.htm

Looky here, http://www.air-weighscales.com/download/pdf/AWQuickload_Bro_902-0067-000rev1.pdf The company is called Air-Weigh, and the product is called QuickLoad Scale.

You can also find some videos on youtube which go a long way to explain the benefits

I dont own one yet, but I have been researching the product quite a bit, I like what I see for the "most" part. However, I do not like most of their competitors products. The biggest problem I have found with the comp. products, youll have to buy 1 gauge for each set of axles on the truck. I have a volvo, and its quite impossible to add one round gauge to the dash, let alone three. With quickload, you only need the one gauge.

 

I use an air-weigh gauge on my truck. It's shows actual pounds and is for the most part accurate after you calibrate it. It is pretty expensive though much more than stepnfetchit's guage would be. Yeah, what Kansas said in above post.

 

That's pretty cool instead of being out there learning new tricks on how to use your shovel just check your gauge.

 

I haven't ever used a shovel to get the load right but then I haul grain. 5mouths hauls different products than me so a person might have to shovel. I would much rather use a gauge that's for sure.

 

Check out Right Weigh Load Scales. They have a 2" and 3" dash guage as well as an external trailer gauge. I had a Timpte trailer with the Right Weigh gauge and found it to be very accurate. The dash mounted one I had in my Pete was very accurate once I calibrated it. Not difficult to do at all. Just need a heavy enough load. I hauled some plastic pellets right after I got the truck and those suckers are Heavy. I weighed the load on a Cat and unscrewed the plastic cover, used a small screwdriver to calibrate the gauge and never touched it after that. I found it to be very accurate and when I sold the truck after 5 years it was and still is pretty much within 100# of a certified scale. The Right Weight are $90+ for 2" model. I think the in cab scales are well worth the $.

 

Not sure why you would need to spend all that money on scales. It's been done for years with a simple air gauge. Hendrickson even has charts showing what pressure is required for each model of suspension. I'm sure others do also.

Intraax300
Intraax250
Intraax230

I guess if you really really want a gauge that has LBS instead of PSI ok but the weight is the same. I've had Wilsons, Timpte and Cornhusker hoppers, multiple flats ect. and you load it once and record the pressures and your fine. 60 psi is 34k on the drives, is this way on all our 8 bag kenworths. Was the same on a friends Pete Low-air leaf. On a 10' spread 65 was the magic number (40k). All for about $10. I load hoppers while sitting on scales so weights are exact but the gauges work great.

 

Right weight.... I just installed 2 of them. With all parts for both truck and trailer it cost roughly $300. The tractor guage of course hools to the tractor air bags. For the trailer I put a quickconnect air coupling on my headache rack and another on the trailer which I connect via a standard coil hose like you would use on a home compressor. Haven't used them yet but have heard nothing but good things about them. I don't expect it to eliminate cat scales but it will reduce the load, weigh, load some more, weigh, dump some, weigh and so on and so forth.

 

I have the right weigh gauges and they seem to be right on though I calibrated mine a thousand lbs light so when it says 34 it has 35 on it that lets me haul 1000bu of corn and look legal lol

I would highly reccomend them I put the trailer one in place of the factory psi gauge and the tractor one on the rail the pogo stick mounts to being as I am usually outside the truck while loading at farm bins they also make it much easier if you are having someone else watch the gauge for you