Shut Down at the Scale...44,000 on my spread

SHC,can you explain how having a long wheelbase would have any influence on how much weight is on your drives?(i presume you are talking about a long wb on the truck? )

 

Blind Driver,besides the 450$ for the wrecker,did you have to pay anything else?

 

need a sledge hammer to hit the ends. PING, PING, PING.

 

Meaning I can load more weight forward on my trailer without fear of going overaxle on my steers. My fifth wheel can also slide more than most trucks, granted I have not had to move it. On a SD trailer, it really doesn't matter tho because the weight transfer is different than that of a flat or van trailer. I have also been told I have a different axle spacing on my drives than most trucks do?? I have no idea what that means but I was told it helps in Canada??

 

Are you referring to the 'Canadian Spread'? On the drives of most US trucks, if you measure from the center of the hub to the center of the hub, its 4'4. The Canadian spread is something like a 6 ft spread between the drives.I heard it works something like the spread on the trailer...don't know for sure, because Ive never had a Canadian DOT even interested in my truck. Rolled all over Canada for years at 265wb and never once got a second look.

 

SOMONOM BOTCH!!! My post wouldnt load...I just wrote out a beautiful detailed explanation of how to lift those with a couple of 2X4's and re-bar from Home Depot. $10 worth of stuff would lift those ingots and you could push them with one hand.

Home Depot sells 4 foot re-bar, you need two on each end (4 total). Several two foot long 2x4's. Lay the re-bar on the floor under each end (4 feet from each end) stack 2x4's on top of re-bar till they get close to the ingots, pound door wedges (Home Depot $4 for a pack of them. They are used to align doors in their frame). As you pound the wedges in, it lifts (slightly) the ingots enough to take weight off the 4x4's that it is sitting on now. BTW put the wedges between the 2x4's not directly under the ingots. It worked in Egypt 4,000 years ago and still works today.

 

I delivered some empty cans to a container yard in Memphis that had inspection sheets posted on the wall. Almost all were from that scale. They had the points total in red and one was over 300 points!

 

NOW we know the secrets to the building of the pyramids

 

Yeah, they just ran to Home Depot.

 

You got a Canadian Spread, like I do.