[TheForge] Leviathan...

Marc Godbout marc at ironringforge.com
Wed Sep 29 08:03:22 EDT 2004


How about this - measure the pressure in the tires, then measure the 
square inches that the tire sits on the road. Add them up. PSI/sq-in
should be somewhat close to the weight on each tire, shouldn't it?

--Marc

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 00:06, Chris Kilpatrick wrote:
> > How do you tell how heavy something like that is, short of putting it on a
> > scale? I wouldn't even have a clue as to what order of magnitude you're
> > looking at...
> 
> Keep it simple, ask the folks at a truck scale to tell you.  Granaries have them, big trucking companies have them, scrap yards have them, even the highway patrol has them. 
-- 
Marc Godbout
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