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Default Estimating wooden ramp strength


"Ignoramus7291" wrote in message
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On 2007-10-26, B A R R Y wrote:
Mike Marlow wrote:

Who's going to be
building ramps to load a couple thousand pound object into the back of a
pickup?


I'd like to see the pickup with a couple thousand pounds in the back.

May the OP should just give up and hire a roll-back. G


I have a trailer that can carry a lot more than 2,000 lbs. I made it
myself, kind of.

http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Home...th-M105A2-Bed/

It can carry about 4k lbs.


Is that a real rating? Seems like that would be kinda high for a single
axle trailer like that.

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