Is this 20 tonne

Gunners

Gunners

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You buy by weight not volume. Stuff weighs different amounts per m3 as others have said, plannings are heavy. The ticket you sign with each load should say how much it is loaded with. Certainly when I use Days Aggregates they have this info on the ticket. Usually varies by 100kg either way but around 18t. Days have a couple of Alloy tippers that they only run with topsoil and you get neigh on 20t out of them but they wont let you put muck on for a return load! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Lynchy

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Used to work as foreman fitter in a quarry,got done once by btp,train used to come in for ballast,often on relays machines can't get to every carriage so odd one or two full,used to charge for full train,had btp watching from public footpath!
Then few years later got done for dodgy weighing on company tippers on West coast upgrade,one of subbys got stopped cos he ran in co colours but was told to go on his way only after direct wagons,transport mgr n quarry mgr got moved sideways
 
Left hooker

Left hooker

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Our latest scania carries 19 ton dead with steel body and steel wheels
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The truck in your pic looks to have deep sides for bulky products so would look less and as stated plainings are heavy to the c/m
 
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mart1602

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looks like you put more than 20 ton on and it wasnt even filling up:ROFLMAO:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Been watching it for a hour now:unsure: still isn’t piling up:unsure: must have the tail gate open(y)
no side in the near side mate (y) ... he's on a pension there, ... been loading the same truck for three weeks :rolleyes::oops::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
modelman093

modelman093

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I read about an app where you point the phone at the pile and then walk round it and it calculates the volume but I’m not sure if the density can be factored in.
 
doobin

doobin

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I read about an app where you point the phone at the pile and then walk round it and it calculates the volume but I’m not sure if the density can be factored in.
What does it use for scale?? Don’t think I’d want to trust it to price a job personally.
 
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Komatsu

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What does it use for scale?? Don’t think I’d want to trust it to price a job personally.
I’ve heard of that too.....would it be the same thing that gets used with drones to tell you how much is in a heap?
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I think that this is it. Just hope that it wasn’t April 1st !
wonder how the hell that works?? :unsure: a mate has one that you can point the phone at an aircraft (civil) and it'll tell you what it is, where it's been and where it's going :unsure: :oops: **** knows how it works or if it's right ... HTF do you check it ..... could feed you any old BS
 
Danny

Danny

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wonder how the hell that works?? :unsure: a mate has one that you can point the phone at an aircraft (civil) and it'll tell you what it is, where it's been and where it's going :unsure: :oops: **** knows how it works or if it's right ... HTF do you check it ..... could feed you any old BS

Ive got the same app flightradar24 pretty cool to type where you are in and it shows you whats in the air above you if you hear a plane
 
doobin

doobin

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The app is free but the subscription is £5k per year for 100 reports. So one for the big boys currently.
 
Left hooker

Left hooker

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wonder how the hell that works?? :unsure: a mate has one that you can point the phone at an aircraft (civil) and it'll tell you what it is, where it's been and where it's going :unsure: :oops: **** knows how it works or if it's right ... HTF do you check it ..... could feed you any old BS
Can do it off of your search engine
 
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DaveDCB

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He’s a question off the back of this - Do free road planings still exist? I know once upon a time if you had somewhere to tip them on a night you could get them FOC.. wondered if anyone ever had this Bertie bonus?
 
hiluxman

hiluxman

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He’s a question off the back of this - Do free road planings still exist? I know once upon a time if you had somewhere to tip them on a night you could get them FOC.. wondered if anyone ever had this Bertie bonus?
Yes they still exist but usually you need to give the main man a bertie to make em come to your yard🤣
 
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