Help please.

['08SEAL]

I just bought the 1950 Chevrolet Texaco 3100 Pickup Truck and need a little help. I bought some Tamiya 1/35 scale sandbags for the bed of it and I have 2 questions. How many full sandbags could a truck like this hold, and how many should I put iin there? I was thinking putting like 5 or 6 kinda thrown in there but I'm not to sure.

[Kaleb]

It can hold that many easy, especially since the scale difference the bags will actually be smaller.

[rel14]

1/2 ton truck, 50 lb bags? 20 bags=1000lbs

[bbowser]

What's the weight of a sandbag, 50, 100 lbs? It's a 1/2 ton truck so if you load it up with 50 bags it'll be sitting on the axle with flat tires and the nose in the air

[rel14]

as us rednecks do it,,,,,,, until the frame hits the axle,,,

['08SEAL]

The bag packag comes with 48 bags with 12 for the top. 36 flat for building and 12 round tops for the top of the stack. So maybe 10 bags?

[Longbox55]

You have to keep in mind, those trucks were built far heavier than todays trucks are. I would say that a 1/2 ton from the '50s is easily equivalent to a light duty 3/4 ton modern truck, maybe even a bit heavier duty. Those trucks were meant to be used as TRUCKS, not an overglorified passenger car with really big open trunk.

I've loaded 1000 pounds in the back of my '55 3200, didn't even squat the springs.

[Longbox55]

Here's the specs for the base model '50 3104 pickup; GVW is 4600 pounds. That's the Gross Vehicle Weight, the combination of the truck itself with a full load. The Empty Wieght of the 3104 is 3175 pounds. That includes a full feul tank and all fluids. That leaves you 1425 pounds of load capacity (including driver/passengers). Considering that the kit is tooled with RP 267 Auxilliary rear Springs (overloads), that bumps the GVW to about 5000 pounds, or 1825 pounds of load capacity.

['08SEAL]

I think the sandbags are a little big compared to the kind I see at the gun range. 3 or 4 line up the bed of the truck. How long was the bed in real life?

[my80malibu]

generally speaking a bag of cement is about 80 lbs a bag of play sand is about 50lbs. The typical sandbags that I have seen are for flood control use and usally weigh in at 10-15 lbs

[jerseyjunker1]

just install some helper springs and load'em all

['08SEAL]

Lengthwise on the bed it takes 3 or 4 to line up and 3 for the width. It will take 4 to stack to the top of the bed