Yes, that has and does happen. There’s also a safety factor, it’s not going to collapse at 41 lbs. The floor will start sagging and you’ll start noticing weird noises. Don’t put a hot tub in your house.
And while the title mentions gold, the body of the article seems to indicate it’s just money in a bank account? I don’t see the gold thing repeated again.
Your pallet jack can’t safely carry that cargo, plus people, at highway speeds, 3-5 feet off the ground. I also assume your pallet jack isn’t armored, so you’ve got to subtract the weight of the armor to get the surplus capacity actually useful for cargo.
The typical big armored bank truck you see transporting cash is rated at 25,000 lbs, but already weighs something like 13,000 lbs empty. The smaller vans, like what I assume the parent commenter is talking about, probably has to devote a larger percentage of its gross vehicle weight to the actual vehicle and armor.
In my experience “max” safe working loads on electric and hydraulic pallet jacks are tested to 150% capacity to make sure it’ll perform as advertised. Perhaps pneumatic jacks are tested to different standards, but that doesn’t sound right to me.
Overloading equipment will inevitably lead to early failure, even if not right away. It’s the same logic as skipping load bearings in a building because the beams are rated to a lower value than their average strength.
A gold bar weighs 400 troy ounces.
Right now gold is at $2,948.85 per troy ounce.
That’s about 1,695 and a half gold bars.
A gold bar weighs 27.4286 lbs, so that is 46,507lbs of gold.
The standard armored car can carry up to 3,000 lbs, so it would take at least 16 armored cars to move that many bars.
I guess my point is that is a fuck load of gold. Where the hell do they think Biden was hiding it? In his guest bathroom?
Trump and Elon found a place for it all, don’t worry.
Trump and Elon want to “check” Fort Knox to “see if” the gold “is there”, but “oh no” it’s “all gone”.
Yuuuuge bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago
I heard it was in the trunk of the car in his garage.
Yea good fuckin luck storing that much weight
Standard wood joist floors are usually only rated for 30-40 lbs/sqft. That is going to be one hell of a big bathroom.
…isn’t that less weight/sqft than most adult people put on it?
In total
Still sounds like one well-attended house party could prove disastrous 🤔
Yes, that has and does happen. There’s also a safety factor, it’s not going to collapse at 41 lbs. The floor will start sagging and you’ll start noticing weird noises. Don’t put a hot tub in your house.
And while the title mentions gold, the body of the article seems to indicate it’s just money in a bank account? I don’t see the gold thing repeated again.
That’s all an armored car can take? My pneumatic pallet jack can hold 5500 lbs.
Your pneumatic pallet jack doesn’t hit potholes while going 60 mph.
True but I figure they could carry more weight than 3000lbs. My car can tow that.
You also have to account for the weight of the actual vehicle, 3k lbs is the remaining cargo capacity
And that’s the part that surprises me. I figured it would be more as cash is very heavy.
Your pallet jack can’t safely carry that cargo, plus people, at highway speeds, 3-5 feet off the ground. I also assume your pallet jack isn’t armored, so you’ve got to subtract the weight of the armor to get the surplus capacity actually useful for cargo.
The typical big armored bank truck you see transporting cash is rated at 25,000 lbs, but already weighs something like 13,000 lbs empty. The smaller vans, like what I assume the parent commenter is talking about, probably has to devote a larger percentage of its gross vehicle weight to the actual vehicle and armor.
I find it extremely unlikely that your pneumatic pallet jack is allowed to hold more than 5,499 lbs.
It’s a “max weight” not a “suggested weight”.
But yes, a regular armored van can carry around max 3k and a super-heavy can carry max 9k.
Do you need me to explain what the word “can” means? It seems like we are both fluent in English.
In my experience “max” safe working loads on electric and hydraulic pallet jacks are tested to 150% capacity to make sure it’ll perform as advertised. Perhaps pneumatic jacks are tested to different standards, but that doesn’t sound right to me.
What makes you say it’s unlikely?
Overloading equipment will inevitably lead to early failure, even if not right away. It’s the same logic as skipping load bearings in a building because the beams are rated to a lower value than their average strength.
Biden clearly hides it in his LOCKED garage along with his national secrets and classic cars.
Should have put it in the bathroom. The most secure room in a mansion.