Ambitious load in Holden

[388cube_edxr8]

Originally Posted by Fev

bahahaha lovin that photo. Belongs in the fail thread hahaha

It is in the fail thread. I put it there yesterday. For some reason though, my post of that and another car just came out blank in the thread.

[outside]

Originally Posted by castellan

Who really knows.
It would not be 2 tonnes. maybe 1 tonne.
Most probably just done a wheel bearing in the old thing. that sort of weight would not help.

would be more likely snapped the wheel studs

[SVTVNM]

For whats it's worth I use to put 2+ tonnes in the back of a rusted out 85 Hiace diesel, Couldn't kill it.

[GTP-03]

silly bugger,hes running a couple of degrees to much camber on the rear!

[Brazen]

Ive seen Falcon utes WAY overloaded no problems. Although I wonder if the cheap Chinese-looking wheels on this Holden may have been an issue.

[castellan]

It's a VS III ute. they don't have IRS.

It would not be the wheel studs that went.

It would only just be an Axel bearing that went in the 11 year old bomb.

I would say it only really has about 1 ton in the back maybe a bit more.
710 kg is there load limit but they are actually way safer to drive and handle better than any 1 tonne tray back because the weight is low down.

A builder mate had one with air bag rear helpers for the weight he carried plus a big trailer. but he could buy a new car every year.

That old ute in the photo could have easy over 500,000 km up on it now and driven like that once week for 11 years.

And yes he is a tosspot to load it up like that what a fool, young Yamaha rider no doubt.

[JimNiki]

looks like one of them back to the future cars where the wheels fold away... hehe

[04redxr8]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

I think its normal practise for a lot of people, especially those tradies with utes.

Have seen plenty being driven with the arseend of the car scraping the road because they are over-loaded.

I saw a mazda 121 bubble car over loaded to the max in the rear seat, boot overloaded as it was open and towing a trailer! The woman driver couldnt care less...

As a Commodore ute driving tradie (are we lower intelligence than all others??) I can tell you there is exactly 1.48 tonnes in the back of that ute.

[Mr X]

For all the holden bagging-you could overload HQ V8 one tonner and tow an overloaded tandem trailer as well.They don't make them like that anymore.

[OLDFORDNUT]

just incredible. i see utes around Hervey Bay at least once a week with **** on ground front nearly wheelstanding, most are middle aged men driving too, which just makes it more amazing.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by castellan

710 kg is there load limit but they are actually way safer to drive and handle better than any 1 tonne tray back because the weight is low down.

Well it couldn't really get much lower could it

[DJM83]

Pure gold

[buggerlugs]

What an insult to us Yamaha riders.........

[mik]

Originally Posted by Mr X

For all the holden bagging-you could overload HQ V8 one tonner and tow an overloaded tandem trailer as well.They don't make them like that anymore.

not entirely,,,,,they were known for axles dropping out, also they suffered from cracking around the front suspension/chassis ,full chassis replacements were common.

[paule11]

Originally Posted by SVTVNM

For whats it's worth I use to put 2+ tonnes in the back of a rusted out 85 Hiace diesel, Couldn't kill it.

Yeah im suprised that the car collapsed like it did

[Road Games]

Originally Posted by DJM83

Pure gold

Wish i'd seen him on the road .. i woulda shovelled that load into my ba no wuckas........

[uranium_death]

Nice work by that fella.

I hope he's learned a lesson...I wonder if he realises that there is something to learn?

[Cabbage]

Poor old ute, what an idiot.

[nb_351]

Originally Posted by SgtBourne

I think he will get horrible wear on the inside of his tyre if he doesn't get it fixed :(

maybe he wanted to be like his younger brothers with their irs?
it looks like hes done well to get it to there though lmao

[Iggypoppin']

I tell ya what...I work in timber and building supply(gyprock, hardiflex, concrete) and the ford utes carry a heap more than ANY of the Holden utes. NO exceptions. The blokes who own FG's are not worried about chucking concrete, hardiflex sheets, gyprock, 90 x 45 pine and 2nd fix products all in at once and there does not appear to be any problem.
Green VE SS that comes in daily can't take much though.
Saw a VT wagon with a trailer and roof racks try to take 40 panel floor sheets on his racks and 50 hardiflex sheets in the trailer. I told him to please enquire atvtge office in regard to delivery, as he will snap everything in half in the car. He seriously had no idea his car was not able to take the weight???

[FPV8U]

Having been in a few VS 5.0L's this was probably a attempt to stop it going sideways..

Seriously FAIL!

[azzss]

There looks to be about 3/4 to 1m of crushed rock in the back of that ute. Now 20ml c/rock goes about 1.6-1.8 tonne to the metre plus all them bags of concrete it could be pushing 2 tonnes or more. Falcon or commodore ute, putting that much in either is plain stupid.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by buggerlugs

What an insult to us Yamaha riders.........

Yes just another insult, i thought you Yamaha riders should be immune to it by now buggerlugs.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by azzss

There looks to be about 3/4 to 1m of crushed rock in the back of that ute. Now 20ml c/rock goes about 1.6-1.8 tonne to the metre plus all them bags of concrete it could be pushing 2 tonnes or more. Falcon or commodore ute, putting that much in either is plain stupid.

It's river sand 1/2 meter at the most and 9x 20KG of cement.

[Iggypoppin']

Originally Posted by castellan

It's river sand 1/2 meter at the most and 9x 20KG of cement.

How can you be sure it's river sand? My eyes aren't too good so I blew the pic up and showed my brother, he thinks it's crushed rocks too? Either way, the things overloaded.

[04redxr8]

Originally Posted by castellan

It's river sand 1/2 meter at the most and 9x 20KG of cement.

It's actually 1 cubic metre. Which weighs about 1.3 tonne.

[04redxr8]

Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

How can you be sure it's river sand? My eyes aren't too good so I blew the pic up and showed my brother, he thinks it's crushed rocks too? Either way, the things overloaded.

The colour, the ratio of sand and cement, Oh, and I'm a tiler. I use it on a regular basis.

By blowing up the photo your just looking at larger pixels.

[Road_Warrior]

Originally Posted by 04redxr8

It's actually 1 cubic metre. Which weighs about 1.3 tonne.

So it actually could work out to be quite a bit less than the claimed 2T which makes it look even worse. In any event, the poor old ute didn't deserve that kind of treatment at the hands of a moron.

Some people don't deserve to own cars.

[04redxr8]

Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

So it actually could work out to be quite a bit less than the claimed 2T which makes it look even worse. In any event, the poor old ute didn't deserve that kind of treatment at the hands of a moron.

Some people don't deserve to own cars.

+ 180 kgs of cement. That I could see. Still 1.5 tonnes. No ute (F150 excepted) to carry that load. Its a braked trailer. Or a broken ute.

My best guess is he asked for 3/4 of a cube. Landscape supplies sometimes give you a little more. That would make sense. Some people (yes Tradies) I have met over the years believe 1 cubic metre= 1 tonne.

He may have thought that he had 750 kilos of sand and risked the cement as a little extra.

[Iggypoppin']

Originally Posted by 04redxr8

The colour, the ratio of sand and cement, Oh, and I'm a tiler. I use it on a regular basis.

By blowing up the photo your just looking at larger pixels.

I only blew it up cos I couldn't see it, I'm on my iPhone. And my eyes arent great.
But fair enough. Still, that poor ute couldn't take the weight and let's hope the owner learns from experience