Road plate weight

[Giles]

Got these I think they are 2400x600x20mm (chucking it down and on baby sitting duties so can’t measure them)

anyone guess a weight?

Wondering if micro would drag them into place or I’ll need to get mini etc off other job.

Got a 100kg magnet wondering if that’d be upto it but no slip would stop getting proper grip

 

[Smiffy]

JCB 8014 will just about at a struggle move a full size road plate so I reckon a micro will do those fine

 

[charlie2]

weigh about quarter ton for half a plate we had some full size 2.4x1.2 and i am sure they were about half a ton a little 1.7 ton hitachi could move them but nowhere near lift them.

 

[CPS]

Got these I think they are 2400x600x20mm (chucking it down and on baby sitting duties so can’t measure them)

anyone guess a weight?

Wondering if micro would drag them into place or I’ll need to get mini etc off other job.

Got a 100kg magnet wondering if that’d be upto it but no slip would stop getting proper grip

226kg at those sizes. Through the magnet in the skip, dangerous bastard things

 

[6feetdown]

Got these I think they are 2400x600x20mm (chucking it down and on baby sitting duties so can’t measure them)

anyone guess a weight?

Wondering if micro would drag them into place or I’ll need to get mini etc off other job.

Got a 100kg magnet wondering if that’d be upto it but no slip would stop getting proper grip

Rekon they'd drag it 225kg according to steel calculation

 

[Canal Navvy]

8 kg/m2/mm thickness

 

[V8Druid]

Got these I think they are 2400x600x20mm (chucking it down and on baby sitting duties so can’t measure them)

anyone guess a weight?

Wondering if micro would drag them into place or I’ll need to get mini etc off other job.

Got a 100kg magnet wondering if that’d be upto it but no slip would stop getting proper grip

20mm plate is 157kg/M

 

[Rob65]

Simple rule of thumb that’s easy to remember in units you can visualise-
One square foot of 1/4” thick place weighs 10lbs.

Your plate is 8’ x 2’ so 16sqr ft. x 3 (three x 1/4”) = 48 x 10 =480 lbs or about 220kg according to my mental arithmetic.

 

[V8Druid]

Simple rule of thumb that’s easy to remember in units you can visualise-
One square foot of 1/4” thick plat e weighs 10lbs.

Your plate is 8’ x 2’ so 16sqr ft. x 3 (three x 1/4”) = 48 x 10 =480 lbs or about 220kg according to my mental arithmetic.

that is exactly my ROT too Rob ... so easy to remember
another easy one is 2240lbs in a ton and 2204 pounds in a tonne .. therefore 2.204 lbs/Kg (1000kg/Tonne)

 

[Rob65]

that is exactly my ROT too Rob ... so easy to remember
another easy one is 2240lbs in a ton and 2204 pounds in a tonne .. therefore 2.204 lbs/Kg (1000kg/Tonne)

2.204 (it’s actually 2.2046 by the way ) is too many decimal places for my worn out brain to process on the hoof.

To get Lbs into kg I just half it and then take off 10%. So 480Lbs /2 = 240 then take away 24 = call it 220kg.

When I’m looking at weights of things it’s usually with regards to the capacity of what’s holding the item in question up or loading vehicles so always round the numbers up not down

Talking of remembering numbers, why is it that I can remember PI to nine decimal places but can’t remember the date of me girlfriends birthday? I guess it’s an engineer thing.

 

[Giles]

2.204 (it’s actually 2.2046 by the way ) is too many decimal places for my worn out brain to process on the hoof.

To get Lbs into kg I just half it and then take off 10%. So 480Lbs /2 = 240 then take away 24 = call it 220kg.

When I’m looking at weights of things it’s usually with regards to the capacity of what’s holding the item in question up or loading vehicles so always round the numbers up not down

Talking of remembering numbers, why is it that I can remember PI to nine decimal places but can’t remember the date of me girlfriends birthday? I guess it’s an engineer thing.

Girlfriends/wife’s have birthdays???

Who knew