Weight of tray

Wood :-) Truely I have no idea, can you tell me what to look for so I can let you know. I understand why you're asking but on this matter I'm a goldfish.

What colour is the wood? If dark reddish it's possibly Jarrah or Redgum as they are commonly used hardwoods. For either of these work on 818 kg/m3.

Louie

Hi Louie,

I'm in CQ and I know hardwood could come from anywhere but more than likely from local sources. It's more of a dark brown than red. Still I think the density you give is probably pretty much a good average that I can work on. Thanks I'll work out some steel densities and try and work out a rough estimate.

Thanks Flynnie, that's about the weight I came up with last night. It's surprising how quickly you get to max weight with only just the basics. With a tray, steel/vinyl canopy fridge, basic tools, fishing gear and let's say 30-40kg of other gear, I'm at my limit.

Hence my reason for looking at getting rid of the existing tray and canopy and buy a combined canopy like the telstra ones. Don't as yet know the weight of them but hopefully I'd lose over 100kg.

Austravel

The weight sure adds up. After ordering my trayback and before it was delivered I did some calculations and worked out that on some planned trips it would be overloaded. Thought long and hard about having the suspension upgraded to higher GVM prior to registration. In the end I didn't change the GVM as it may only be a big problem on one or two very remote routes as long as I keep a sensible eye on the weight. Likely I will leave the drop sides at home on some trips. That will save a little weight.

When I retire, touch wood, the tray will come off and a combined canopy fitted for the longer trips I hope to do then. Something like a Roscos Big AL-BA2. But that is for the future. Not sure it will reduce weight, probably just get loaded up with "essentials" that now I can do without.

In my case I have one of the better load carrying vehicles without a steel bull bar. without bar work and steel sidesteps, no electric winch, no canopy and nothing much added and all up loaded weight is still tight.

There must be an awful lot of grossly overloaded vehicles out there!

Agree there must be some very heavy rigs out there.