https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Miscellaneous / Off-topic : 179 actual empty weights Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 28 May 2026 14:23:28 +0000 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:15:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=11427 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107645#107645 Author: StephenH
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 9:15am

My pleasure. I could try the South Wake landfill first. I will see if the scales are still active at the North Wake Landfill (closed) which is now a Convenience Center and Household Hazardous Waste facility. That would be a lot closer.]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:15:49 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107645#107645 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107620#107620 Author: Pod People
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Posted: 18 Apr 2018 at 8:55pm

No, it was free. I called them first to find out how/where/when, etc.  I went late in the afternoon when they were least busy.  I was able to cross the scales as many times as I wanted.  there was also plenty of flat space to unhitch the trailer and leave it so we could weigh the truck. It is the orange county landfill in Chapel Hill. I know you are not here, but if passing through I'm sure you could stop by without a problem. the weight guy was chatty and had nothing else to do.

My weights might be a good starting point for you. I know you have done a lot of mods, so it might be interesting to see how much weight you have added.  That was the main reason I wanted the empty weights.  I plan to do a lot of mods on this unit similar to the ones we did on our prior 173.  We had it for almost 6 years and really loved it.  It was modded to our purpose very well.

thanks for all of your mod ideas-I will be using some of them soon
Vann

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:55:14 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107620#107620 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107619#107619 Author: StephenH
Subject: 11427
Posted: 18 Apr 2018 at 8:05pm

Were you charged at the county landfill? I had not thought of that as an option to get a weight on our RP179.]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:05:20 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107619#107619 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11427&PID=107608#107608 Author: Pod People
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Posted: 18 Apr 2018 at 6:31pm

I am working hard on modifying our new(to us, actually it is lightly used) 179 R Pod.  Before I load it up, I wanted a starting point regarding the weights.  I went to our county landfill today and weighed the 179 in various configurations.  I weighed our tow vehicle(2012 ford Expedition EL ) with my wife and I inside and 1/2 tank of gas(approx 16 gallons= approx 128#).  I weighed the R Pod with empty holding tanks and a full tank of propane. Nothing was in the pod except stock items including AC and Microwave.
The combined weight of the truck and rpod and wdh hitch unit was 9348#. The truck as noted above weighed 6138#, the wdh unit weighed 82# and the rpod weighed 3128#.  the tongue weight(without considering the hitch unit weight) was 388# which is 12.4% of the trailer weight.

I think I have figured these correctly.  I did not know how to deal with the 82 pound hitch unit, so left it as a separate  item.  Should the 82 pounds be added to the tongue weight or truck weight or what????

Please correct me if this is not right.
Thaks
Vann
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