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    3/18/2021 6:42 PM  #1

    Nos681
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    Weight watchers...restrictions

    They are just around the corner.
    Some of the work trucks are trying slim down.

    I took the opportunity to borrow the scales for an evening.of investigation.

    Edit: also full 22 gallon tank

    This is what I found:

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    3/18/2021 7:09 PM  #2

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    Wish I had access to some scales!

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    3/19/2021 1:42 AM  #3

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    Bring them to the Bash. Book em Danno.

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    3/19/2021 4:51 AM  #4

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    You can always just do this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071xPmVgE0E

     

    3/19/2021 1:46 PM  #5

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    TKOPerformance wrote:

    You can always just do this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071xPmVgE0E

    Very creative.  Who would guess 10 bathroom scales!

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    3/20/2021 5:49 AM  #6

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    I have used the scale at the local landfill on various occasions to weigh the car, pickup, SUV and trailer.  They've always happily agreed and it didn't cost me anything.  Of course that only gives the overall weight, not the individual corner weights.

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    3/20/2021 6:08 AM  #7

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    John Ha wrote:

    I have used the scale at the local landfill on various occasions to weigh the car, pickup, SUV and trailer.  They've always happily agreed and it didn't cost me anything.  Of course that only gives the overall weight, not the individual corner weights.

     
    If you catch them at a slow time, I bet they would let you do each corner.
    I recently had to weigh one of the work trailers, and I just pulled truck off scale and decoupled with foot and tires of trailer on scale only...just glad it wasn’t really busy that day.  It was easy though.

    BB2...not gonna happen dude.  I bet one of our racecar drivers have scales.

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    3/21/2021 10:33 AM  #8

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    lowercasesteve wrote:

    TKOPerformance wrote:

    You can always just do this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071xPmVgE0E

    Very creative.  Who would guess 10 bathroom scales!

    I think that if you substituted pieces of wood (or something else) that match the thickness of the scales (to simulate the scales rather than spending the money to buy them), you'd only need one scale for each corner (or one scale if you wanted to do one corner at a time).  Just multiply the reading on the scale by the number of scale-thickness supports (including the scale).

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    3/22/2021 7:11 AM  #9

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    MS wrote:

    Wish I had access to some scales!

     



    This was just more for curiosity.
    The scales are for the line trucks at 50# increments, 20,000 #.
    I did swap the scales to opposite sides and had same measurements.

    For our cars, a 2000# scale would be sufficient.

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    3/22/2021 4:17 PM  #10

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    You could always just go through a truck  weigh station.........(Like Corky and I did on the way to Texas Bash a life-time ago!...)they gave me the weight  gladly  It was an accident I exited when I did. EZ return too.
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    3/23/2021 4:56 PM  #11

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    Re: Weight watchers...restrictions

    I was hoping my build would be under 3000lbs but I think that's wishful thinking.  

     

     

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