Alright guys how many 10 foot long 2x6's do you think can fit in a J's trunk. Also by in the trunk I don't mean all the way physically in the trunk because abviously then the answer would be none. Come on and take a guess. I'll post the answer along with the story behind it after I get some good guesses.
oops sorry some how didn't spell out the whole subject title. It should read:
Number of 2"x6"X10' that fit in a J's trunk?
i work in construction management and i have had 6 2x4x10 in there with the trunk closed. they went from the pass side floor (with the front seat layed all the way back and back seat folded down) all the way to the trunk lid.
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Sorry my bad forgot to mention 2nd gen so the seat doesn't fold down. TJ2 that's not a bad guess, close but your off by a bit. The number is actually higher than 30.
33?
got any pics of this situation??
Well it would be cool if I had pics but since I'm not the person that stuffed as many 2x6's in my trunk as possible and the story comes from my room mate who had to stuff them in the car for a stupid customer at Menards I don't have any pics. I'll post the story later tonight and also give the answer to the number that fit.
wait, you let your roomate stuff 2x6's in your car?????
what were you thinking!!!!
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No not my car. Sorry the above post was worded badly. He stuffed them into a customers car. I wouldn't put them in my car. Alright so anyway the answer is 40 of them. My room mate works out in the yard at menards and some lady came to pic up 40 2x6x10's. He was real surprised when he saw that all she had was a 2nd gen cav. He was like how do you expect to get all these home and she just resoponded by saying "in my trunk". Anyway so my room mate starts piling them in. He said he got 26 of them in there and noticed that the springs had already bottomed out and the trunk was pretty much full. He told the lady that she should make two trips and that the trunk was full but she insisted they cram them all in at once. He finally managed to get all 40 in there and she left with 40 2x6x10's sticking out about 8 feet from the back of the trunk. Talk about dangerous, he said it was later in the day when she came in so it was more or less dark when she was driving with them. I can't believe she could even steer the car with all that weight hanging out off the back. Just from a quick calculation using a value from www.matweb.com for the density of pine and figuring out the volume of 40 boards gives an approximate weight of around 600 pounds. Then you also have to take into account that the weight is haning out away from the rear axle which causes a pretty large moment force as well which I'm not even going to try to calculate it all out right now but you get the idea. Thats a ton of weight and force on the old J.
Don't need pics for that one. My imagination just kicked in!
I thought I was close but damm that's just crazy.
did she at least staple a little red flag on the end???
i'm wondering if it did anything to the lip where the trunk latches, if it bent it or not, since there probably WAS a little over 600 lbs pound load just on there, ( i gotta do some calculations on this, cuz i'm curios on what the weight would have been there)
BRB
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by my calculations, there would have been aprox 1704 lb load on the lip, and there would have been 1104 lbs uplift force on the rear deck (granted if i did my calculations all corectly)
this was calculated by having 2'-0 in the trunk, and 8'-0" sticking out the back....
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if i was your roomate i'd have told the lady to go screw herself and that if she only wants to make one trip she can load them herself. i wouldn't want to have any fault in those falling out and hitting another car and hurting someone.
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Buzz122,
Just curious as to how you did you're calculations. I can picture about what I would do but I'm too lazy to actually figure it all out, got enough school work problems to do for my classes. The forces that you calculated sound about right to me. Also those would be the static forces then think about when the car is moving and hitting bumps and such. That car musta been a real pain to get to stop.
Boltz22,
Yeah I know what you mean by not wanting to do it cause of the liablity. Although I think that by signing the paperwork as they leave the yard it probably releases some liability. How ever that doesn't mean people won't still try to sew.
i didn't mean it by the suing stand point. i just could live with it on my consense (sp?) that i help her load it and let her leave with it that way.
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Tyler Steinhardt < ---- i sorta cheated, had someone run a load calc on their truss program, just to get an aproximate idea, cuz i was starting to get curious myslef, what the aproximate load would have been...
I asked him to run a single 10'-0" 600lb beam, canteleverd 8'-0" horizontally, but you are right, that was a static load, and also the actual load was seperated into individual 2x6's.....
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Off subject, very nice Z Tyler, I dig the drift kit in silver on a 2k+ Z24, keep it clean
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