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CAN ANYBODY TELL ME HOW MUCH MY 63 c-60 CAN HAUL AND HOW MUCH WEIGHT CAN THE DUMPBED DUMP?

My '59 Viking 40 will haul and dump 4 ton easily. I believe it's rated at 14,000 lbs (including it's own weight). In that case 4 tons would be the limit. I would guess that a C-60 would be rated around 18 to 20,000 lbs.

I am sure that someone will come along with more certain information.

By the way, welcome to the "Stovebolt".

John

There should be a tag in your door frame or in glovebox, stating the GVW of your truck. Go to gravel pit with truck and half tank of gas in it, get weighed empty. Subtract your weight from GVW on truck plate, you have best SAFE load for truck. Many times it can haul more, but SAFE limit for brakes and suspension is manufacturer's statement. My older 2-ton was a 16,000 GVW, but some later years they upped that with stronger frames, springs and axles. I always figure about ton for 1000 lbs of load, so around 4 yards is probly close. Check to see what your dump frame has on it for an ID plate too. It will give capacity or at least volume of the bed. If small wheelbase, probly not over 5yards, but may be as small as 3 yard dump.

Forgot to mention/.....better have a license plate to match your load or bigger than load, or if you get stopped, could be bad trouble with law. When I had my 54, I put a 16,000 lb plate on it for hauling. Next size down was 11,000 in INdiana, and wouldn't allow much of a load when truck weighed 7000 or more. Big price for big plate also. Some states let you buy it by the quarter of year, so you can have it correct only when you really use it, like in summer or fall. Indiana don't do that. Here we can get half year rate ONLY if the first half of year has already passed! And that year doesn't always start in January either, think it's in Febuary here, pretty tricky, huh?

For the purpose of figuring the body capacity it is a common industry practice to allow 3000 lbs per cu.yd. Some commodities will weigh a lot more but dry gravel, asphalt, dry earth and many others all weight a little under 3000 per yd. The hoist is sized to the body capacity so it will probably lift more than it will hold unless it's full of cannon balls or concrete. Hoist capacity is calculated by class, i.e., 20,30,40, etc. which is the ammount of torque around the rear hinge. Common hoists in 1963 for your chassis would have been a class 30 rated at about 10-12 tons depending on body length. A common single axle dump of that time would have ab 8'x6'-6" ID body with 24" sides/30" ends and rated at 4/5 cu. yds.

How much it can hual? or How much it should haul?
It could haul 20000lbs to 24000lbs (I have done it)
But realy you shouldent haul more than 18000lbs to 19000lbs

I have a '53 6400, 8.25-20 rubber. Many years ago when it still had the 216 in it a friend and I cleared a cherry orchard for the nice wood..anyway, I weighed the truck loaded at 24,000. that was way too heavy but it did it.

i got a 61 c60 flat dump crossed the scales at the log yard grossing 27000 pounds most logs were 17ft 10in my truck empty is bout 9600lbs

Hello My 1960 C60 has 24000 painted on the door from years gone by it will haul every bit of it. I stops fine loaded (7 tons). truck empty weights 9800 and 7 ton brings it up to the max. 24000 plates are for 24000 so every thing is good. single cylinder hoist has no problem with that much weight.

My father's '63 C60 (292 CID, 4-speed, 2-speed rear, Garwood dump, Heil single cylinder hydraulics) had a GVWR of 19,500 lbs. When I was in my late teens and working in his construction business I'd pull up to the scales at the quarry and leave with a total weight of around 31,000 lbs. Truck pulled it no problem and dumping was easy. The truck handled it perfectly...although in hindsight I wouldn't recommend such practices…