What's the most you've hauled?

SplitBusChick · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:

HA!

tkelley · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject:

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I've carried a fat chick.....and Leroy!

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Khopkinsx · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

OK, I dont have pictures and not sure of the weight, but...

back in the day when you could still have keg parties at college, I put 15 kegs ans accessories ice, trash cans, etc in my 67 westy.
I put a small dent in my pasenger side dogl eg getting one of the kegs out of the front seat. It brings a (happy) tear to my eye every time I see it. Smile

mabalot5150 · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

65beeter · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

I want a split soooooo bad, and even more after reading this thread, I had no idea they could haul that much weight!

j.pickens · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

It ain't just weight.
Its also size.
The Single Cab can load stuff with the gates closed that the longbed Chevy pickup boys have to hang their tailgates over.
And for the regular buses, well, lets just say the forklift operator just about shit himself when I told him it would fit right in:
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The double doors helped, as well.
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dms · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:00 am Post subject:

I have figured the floor area and I know I could fit 4 full size washers into the bus , and still put another one on top the engine , if I layed it on it's back . Most of the small trucks toyotas , nissans , 2 appliances is the limit . the wheel wells are always in the road .
Traffic will love me when I hit a these steep hills on the way home ,they are about 12% ,or 6 degree , and about a mile long . this will be done with a 36 HP and a stock spilt case with reduction boxes .
Most likely a 2 gear adventure . Laughing

When I do this , I'll post some pics .
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TeamSpatula · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:48 am Post subject:

This is one of the BIG buckets of mulch from the yard waste center - note the height of the wheel wells vs the second picture. it actually drove pretty well, not nearly as squirrely as I would have thought.
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just random appliances & other crap, from moving a few years ago:
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here's one from this summer, loaded up to go to the dump, although you can't really see all the junk in the rear:
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busworks · Samba Member Joined: May 21, 2004 Posts: 75

Don't have any pics, but last summer hauled 15 cubis yards(one at a time) of fill dirt and top soil for my back yard. Guy at the landscaping shop said 2500lbs per yard. Summer before hauled 7 loads of river rock pulled from my front yard. Wieghed in at 2600lbs per load at the scale. This was done in my '59 single cab, 40 horse with a split case trans.

Clara · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:40 am Post subject:

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IN2VWS · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject:

Not as heavy as some I have seen on here, but its the heaviest I have done.
A bridgeport milling machine.

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bigbulli · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Not heavy but took up a lot of room Laughing

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CarlSpackler · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject:

I love threads like this! They seem to pop up everytime I start wondering why I keep putting time and money into this thing Very Happy

Not the biggest load, but the only one I remembered to take a picture of. 12 foot boards - no problem! All treated lumber to build a swing set / club house for my two boys. I'm sure I could have hauled it all in one trip, but for some reason I was perfectly happy making multiple trips Wink

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Bub · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject:

I did something like this in my 69' - 2 scoops of gravel for a foundation/driveway, the loader guy just laughed when he dumped the 2nd load in. He said it was probably 4000 lbs.
Barely made it home, and in the same truck I hauled almost 6000 lbs of landscaping rocks we removed from our backyard.
The truck was slammed to begin with, loaded it, barely got down the street and it *bounced* a little, the engine bottomed out and both rear motor hangers broke- the engine fell OUT, hit the street and I dragged it around the corner- STILL BOLTED to the trans of course. Smile

Took about an hour to shimmy a 912 motor mount in on the side of the road.
I did eventually get the rock up to my sisters house..no damage really.
I wish I had pictures!
I won't torture my 60' SC the way I beat on the fat-chick.
OH!
I hauled my bro-in-laws Kubota tractor with the bay window too. W/ the 1200 lb. ballast on the back and the bucket raised up over the cab!!
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gatorwyatt · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

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j.pickens · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

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SplitBusChick · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

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