Actually, the CHEPs average 60 lb. 50% more than typical pallets.
I spent the last twenty years determining the difference while calculating allowable weight for sugar shipments. When an empty semi comes in at 36,000 lbs for a 45,000 lb load, the tolerances get pretty tight.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
Actually, the CHEPs average 60 lb. 50% more than typical pallets.
I spent the last twenty years determining the difference while calculating allowable weight for sugar shipments. When an empty semi comes in at 36,000 lbs for a 45,000 lb load, the tolerances get pretty tight.
It’s all them damn nails they shoot into them!! <G>
Started my 38th consecutive field season a couple weeks back.
Did 7 years of fire, including helitack...3 whisky fox was our primary ship.
Saw and did it all in the Wildland fire world, moved on in 1995 to different position.
Been to around 2000 different field work sites in 7 states since then. Not one mountain range in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, or Colorado I've not done work in. Worked in nearly all the national parks, reservations, military lands, lots of private lands, wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, BLM and State lands.
Have accessed work sites by dirt bike, ATV, horses/miles, jet boat, trucks, helicopter, fixed wing aircraft, and a chit ton of hiking. Have a lot of photos, should have taken more.
Some of my favorite places to work: Owhyees, Winds on the reservation side, Frank Church, Bob Marshall, Selway Bitterroot, Shoshone, Beartooth, Missouri breaks in Montana and north Dakota, maroon bells, Bighorns, Arizona strip.
Some of the sky islands in Arizona and everything on the mogollon rim, Red desert in Wyoming, southern Utah in the canyon lands, Uintah range, the various ranges in Nevada all worth honorable mentions.
Been one hell of a good "office" to work in... wouldn't do anything different if I had it to do over again. Zero regrets.
This time of year I am into gathering poultry and seafood.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.