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Dale72 said:
Well this load has turned out to be a P.I.T.A. it weights a lot more than what John Deere says it does. They say it weights 43600 lbs. My empty weight is 37200 full of fuel and def. With half a tank the scale on our yard showed I was 620 lbs over. The Illinois scale just north of Springfield said I was 1200 lbs over and gave me a $320 ticket which the company will pay. Got down to the truck stop in Troy IL and weighted it on the scale here and it shows that I'm 1320 lbs over with a 1/4 tank.
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That’s a lot of steel.
 
AZVAJKU said:
That’s a lot of steel.
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Yeah. Now I sit here and wait until they decide what to do. If it was just the loaded and the bucket, I could have left the bucket attached my oversized permit would be for over weight and wide. But it has a set of forks sitting under the bucket. So that puts it at 3 pieces so I can't be over weight.
 
Dale72 said:
Well this load has turned out to be a P.I.T.A. it weights a lot more than what John Deere says it does. They say it weights 43600 lbs. My empty weight is 37200 full of fuel and def. With half a tank the scale on our yard showed I was 620 lbs over. The Illinois scale just north of Springfield said I was 1200 lbs over and gave me a $320 ticket which the company will pay. Got down to the truck stop in Troy IL and weighted it on the scale here and it shows that I'm 1320 lbs over with a 1/4 tank.
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The bigger issue to me sounds like the huge discrepancy in weights on the scales.
 
OverlanderJK said:
The bigger issue to me sounds like the huge discrepancy in weights on the scales.
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Yeah. The scales are never the same. I have weighted on one scale and had to move the machine a little bit. Then when I weighted it again on the same scale the gross weight was different. I have never seen 2 scales weight the same even when they are across the street from each other
 
Dale72 said:
Yeah. The scales are never the same. I have weighted on one scale and had to move the machine a little bit. Then when I weighted it again on the same scale the gross weight was different. I have never seen 2 scales weight the same even when they are across the street from each other
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Whenever we build loads in our system at work, we have the cap at 44K lbs. you have to manually override it to load all the way to 48. We try to leave a little tolerance…
 
Cousin Clyde said:
Whenever we build loads in our system at work, we have the cap at 44K lbs. you have to manually override it to load all the way to 48. We try to leave a little tolerance…
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The weight that John Deere says that it weights is always a little heavier than what it ends up being. I don't know what happened with this one. They will more than likely send another truck so I can put the bucket and forks on Monday.
 
Dale72 said:
The weight that John Deere says that it weights is always a little heavier than what it ends up being. I don't know what happened with this one. They will more than likely send another truck so I can put the bucket and forks on Monday.
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Probably forgot to weigh the forks, or they were a last minute add-on.
 
Well got the loader back to the plant. And I went and weighted the truck empty, and I'm really close to the same amount of fuel as I was when the IL scales got me Saturday. Here's both weights.
 

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Dale72 said:
Well this load has turned out to be a P.I.T.A. it weights a lot more than what John Deere says it does. They say it weights 43600 lbs. My empty weight is 37200 full of fuel and def. With half a tank the scale on our yard showed I was 620 lbs over. The Illinois scale just north of Springfield said I was 1200 lbs over and gave me a $320 ticket which the company will pay. Got down to the truck stop in Troy IL and weighted it on the scale here and it shows that I'm 1320 lbs over with a 1/
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Dale72 said:
Well John Deere is having me bring this back to the plant in Davenport
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Hey, that’s where I live. Stay off locust street. It’s falling apart.
 
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