Tailgate loading

[NickTheEnforcer]

ALL I know is if I had a bike and a decent truck I'd flip for the $500 or so bucks for a better way to haul it around...

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[WOADKIL]

Unless I missed someone else say this, ONLY HALF of the cycle weight would ever be on the tailgate at one time...

So a 700lb Hog would only exert 350lbs on the gate. Room for any dynamic loading while driving. Now how you ramp it up is another scientific equation.

 

[Old NaCl]

485, not bad for something ya can toss across the truck with one hand while closing the gate.

 

[pbethel]

Unless I missed someone else say this, ONLY HALF of the cycle weight would ever be on the tailgate at one time...

So a 700lb Hog would only exert 350lbs on the gate. Room for any dynamic loading while driving. Now how you ramp it up is another scientific equation.

Top of ramp on tailgate, bottom of ramp on ground. Your two points of contact logic still applies.

 

[DonB]

I wouldn't go over a couple of fat chicks, or three fat kids and their diet cokes, combined.
But that's just me.
I'm a safety freak.

 

[Dgc333]

Having been an engineer for the past 45 years I can tell you with assurance that there is a minimum of a 1.5 safety factory on that 485 lbs rating. It is likely even more considering you can put ~1500 lbs in the bed.

I wouldn't hesitate to let 3 two hundred pounders sit on the tail gate.

 

[pbethel]

Having been an engineer for the past 45 years I can tell you with assurance that there is a minimum of a 1.5 safety factory on that 485 lbs rating. It is likely even more considering you can put ~1500 lbs in the bed.

I wouldn't hesitate to let 3 two hundred pounders sit on the tail gate.

I wouldn't have any concerns about safety, only about the straightness of my tailgate.

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