Alternatives to hangin weight.

yea, the thought has def crossed my mind to build shelves/pockets on the back of the bumper and cast them full of lead.

our biggest pulling place up here runs their own rules which state:

E. Maximum truck weight including driver is 8,100 lbs. Added weights must be mounted and secured in bed of the truck. Front mounted weights are not allowed, front bumpers must be O.E.M., lower brackets for snowplow frames are permitted, no modifications that add weight are permitted. All trucks must be weighed before class begins. No aftermarket heavy front bumpers permitted.
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But the main tech guy said that if guys wanna plate the frames with heavy steel and bolt weights up where they can't be seen, thats fine because they can't inspect every truck with a fine tooth comb.
 
Just go out and get some tractor weights.
Everything else looks like shee-it.
 
fill the front frame rails with lead, old gasser trick from waaaaaayyyyy back in the day.....
 
tristan21 said:
Yer stompers got a weight box. What give? Dont hate.
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Now he's gonna fab up a weight rack to hold 9V's!!!:hehe: He's probabaly got some fishin' lure weights under the body too...I know I did!
 
Shep said:
Now he's gonna fab up a weight rack to hold 9V's!!!:hehe: He's probabaly got some fishin' lure weights under the body too...I know I did!
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I think the stomper pulling rules forbid weights in front of the fake radiator support.
 
zstroken said:
If your buying it outright, it is about 1.50 per lb, that was what I was told from a guy that buys it by the ton for making bullets
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I paid close to $2.00 a lb, it aint cheap for sure. I needed something to put in the wieght box and in a hurry last year, the JD weights wouldn't fit and didn't wiegh enough so we have a place called Santa Rosa Lead 10 minutes away, I went there and saw these sexy bricks which fit great.

I can't imagine them letting smelt lead out here in Comifornia :)
 
BigBadDodge said:
I paid close to $2.00 a lb, it aint cheap for sure. I needed something to put in the wieght box and in a hurry last year, the JD weights wouldn't fit and didn't wiegh enough so we have a place called Santa Rosa Lead 10 minutes away, I went there and saw these sexy bricks which fit great.

I can't imagine them letting smelt lead out here in Comifornia :)
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Yea you guys have passed a law saying you can't even buy electricity from a coal fired power plant in another state!! Sadly there are probably many people who wander why electricity is so expensive in california!
 
I'd do the wheel weights. A 5 gal pail full is about 200ish lbs. We couldn't even give away enough when I worked in a shop. We had pails and pails of old weights stacked in the corners of the building.
 
My weight bar is full of lead bricks. Nothing other than Gold is heavier (or at least anything that the average person can buy anyway). 1 cubic foot of lead weighs in at something like 744lbs.

Most of my lead came from the tire shops wheel weights and came in 5 gallon pails. They weighed a ton but after smelting I only got aprox 1/4 of that weight in good usable lead. The rest of it I picked up at the local scrap dealer for .45 cents per pound...most of that was anything from old piping (they used lead piping alot back in the 20's or so) and other types of lead weights.

I had quite the smelting operation going. I welded up a 12x12x12 pot out of 1/8" steel and sat it in the middle of a 24.5" truck rim. I welded up a device using 1/2" black pipe with holes drilled into it and hooked that up to my air compressor as a way to get a great deal of air to the fire. I then used standard charcoal and lit it up. Turned the air up to 30-40psi and let it go. Started off with a little lead in the pot and once it melted just kept putting more in untill the pot was full of molten lead. Made up my own ladel and then pored it into 2.5"x2.5" thin walled tubing. Each bar weighs 33 lbs and is 12" long.

My weight bracket can hold 50 bars in total for a weight of just over 1600 lbs. I also have all the tubing in my weight bar filled also. Currently I have only 24 bars in it for 800lbs total plus aprox 200 for the bracket/box its self.

In my mind if you can do it and make a clean looking bracket up there is nothing better than the lead. Mine is so small that most think I only have 200lbs in it!

Here are some pics.

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Ryan
 
Clean setup ryan. You would never guess it weighed that much!

My brother and I originally used sand bags made with tractor tubes to supplement our suitcase weights. Now a friend sold me some more tractor weights so I wouldn't need to do that anymore. But in a pinch you can get weight on the truck.

Sounds like for weight the local scrap yard could be a good place to get some weight.
 
If your around heavy equipment much you can use the old cutting edges they take off the pans when they use them. That D11 we have the cutting edge on it would be more than enough for 1 truck. On our scrapers we usually just take them out and bury tehm in the fill neways. It would be a nice clean setup too.
 
I was at a metal shop today talking to a buddy about weight (we were making up his weight bracket. And I found out that this place does ALOT of metal punching (1/4" plate punched into the size of a quarter) and they fill a 5 gallon pail per day (he said they can hardly lift the pail when its half full and need the fork lift to move full ones!!!). Sells for scrap for 20 cents per pound. If someone wanted to they could easily build a box like mine and fill them with the punch outs. This would only work for a full time trailer queen that never sees the road....just like mine!!!!

Ryan
 
I made a wieght box for my truck and picked up old workout weights from people off Craigslist... I have about 600 lbs roughly so far. I also poured some concrete a few Saturdays ago at a scrap yard and the yard boss let me dig around through his piles and take anything I was interested in for helping out. He also told me I was welcome to come back anytime I wanted :D I used some round bars inbetween 4" and 6" in dia. and 8" to 18" long...they are heavy. After reading this thread I might have to ask if they scrap lead there though, lol
 
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