AtomicInternet Archived News

The driveway to my barn has been long overdue for more limestone rock, with some places so low it's down to bare dirt. Realizing this was an opportunity to overload my truck with excessive weight, I set off to the landscape supply place to discover limestone is only $32 a yard. Since broken limestone is 97 pounds per cubic feet, and 27 cubic feet are in a yard, I purchased the weight equivalent of my Cougar and had it loaded into the bed of my truck for $32. (If you suck at math that's 2,619 lbs). I returned home with my new low rider and started shovelling the limestone out onto the driveway. My second load I noticed the suspension was compressed all the way to the bump stop (rubber thing on the left resting on the steel triangle) which meant I officially exceeded the maximum allowable cargo weight. After a total of 4 yards I decided the excitement of overloading my truck did not exceeded the exhaustion of shovelling it and quit for the day.