I’m trying to make arrangements to pick up this truck for reasons yet undetermined.
It’s an 04 379, single frame highway spec, no steer axle/springs, no engine or transmission. It still has the rear drive axles so I’m going to pick up the front of it and drag it around to load/unload it. My question is can anyone give me an approximate guess on how much weight I’m going to be lifting on the front of the frame. A buddy thinks his warehouse forklift will pick it up and move it as long as it’s on decent ground, but I’m hardly convinced a forklift will do it, in saying that I’m not too experienced in the forklift category
Thanks for input
How heavy is this 379 w/o engine?
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I'd figure right at 11-12k as it sits
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I don’t know what they tare on the steer, I ran a 389 for a couple years but never scaled empty. If anyone could tell me roughly the empty weight on the steer for a 379 I’d get a rough idea. C15 was 3300lb, so call it 4K for engine and trans, probably 1k for steer axle sound approximate? Wheel to wheel with leafs and all?
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Axle, wheels, engine, trans, driveshaft, hood, accy's.
Probably total 6-7k
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Empty on the steer 11k..285 wheel base.
I got a scale ticket in the truck if you need a precise number. Unfortunately I’m at home and away from it. Will be going to it later today to grab some gear.
A little reverse math..
@ 80,000
- 13, 200 is what my trailer weighs..fact
- 45, 800 is absolute maximum I can haul.
Balance 21k wet full gear -
A regular warehouse forklift with approximately 5k capacity will probably lift it but if you go to backup it will nose dive if it pulls hard at all and I highly doubt it’ll get it on a trailer unless it’s a paver style lowboy or traveling axe trailer. For reference and it’s not a very good one a farm loader tractor that will barely lift a 3500 pound super sack won’t lift the front of a similarly speced ford l9000 in similar condition
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Traction and ground clearance are going to be your two biggest problems.
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You need a 15k capacity off-road forklift to move that onto a trailer and to get it off.
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