How much weight in rear section?

[Ghostrider]

Anyone have an idea on the amount you can put in the back of the SR5? Going to be taking bricks to recycling place. I did this in my 2001 and remember that it was a bit of a pain to take turns. Looking at about 3/4 pallet of bricks - but these are solid so they weigh more.

 

[Snow-Jet-MK5]

Probably better off renting a trailer imo. I would hate for those things to destroy my interior and glass when turning.

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[MORmjso]

Probably better off renting a trailer imo. I would hate for those things to destroy my interior and glass when turning.

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[philsey]

Bah. I had 900# of flagstone in mine twice. Put a tarp down. Load as much as possible towards the middle. Allow extra distance for braking. Cake. It's a truck idnit?

 

[Ezlife45]

I don't know. I think 3/4 of a pallet weighs much more than 900 lbs. I vote for the trailer and drive carefully.
You can google the density of a brick or if they are concrete you can estimate around 150 lbs per cubic foot, take a few measurements of how big you plan to stack then calculate the weight.

I would not want to put 1500 lbs in the back of my runner and at 150 lbs per cubic foot that would be a 3' wide by 2' deep by 2' high. Your mileage may vary

Rough estimate cause 2x2x3 is more like 1800 lbs... but that would be a solid block not bricks.

 

[Snow-Jet-MK5]

Bah. I had 900# of flagstone in mine twice. Put a tarp down. Load as much as possible towards the middle. Allow extra distance for braking. Cake. It's a truck idnit?

It definitely is a truck.... with a trailer hitch. [emoji39]

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[DesertCanyons]

Bricks in cargo area

A few years ago I loaded granite river bed rock into my 95 Jeep GC with the seats down and plywood on the floor. Granite weighs 250 pcf, nearly twice what concrete weighs. I thought I could fill the back up to a foot high until I saw the suspension giving way and the back end dropping considerably with one layer of rocks. It didn't take much to overload it and I was worried about breaking an axle. I made many trips to the wash to collect rocks for our dry landscape. A small gravel trailer would have been better.
The Toyota T4R has a rated cargo capacity. Look in the specs on the Toyota website for it. Even then, I wouldn't stack bricks over the back seats. Take the seats out, lay down a tarp and then cover it with wood blocks to level it and boards on top of the blocks to get a flat surface. Put board runners in front and along the sides to protect the front seats and all that interior body plastic. Make 2 or 3 trips with it. By the time you do all that you could go rent a small trailer.
Estimate the total weight by weighing a sample of known volume. Multiply that by the number of samples in the total volume. Red bricks weigh less than concrete.

 

[Vinsil]

Your in TX.

Offer your neighbor fuel and a six pack/pizza to haul it for you.

 

[Ghostrider]

Your in TX.

Offer your neighbor fuel and a six pack/pizza to haul it for you.

Nice. The neighbor had back surgery a year ago so that is a non starter. Appreciate the replies - I remember doing it in the 2001 SR5 and turning was not fun. Plus they moved the recycle place ten miles farther away. I have to move the bricks to have a fence replaced so I may just cop out and move them away from the fence and then back. That will be easiest. They are in the back yard so I would have to wheelbarrow them out to the truck in the driveway.

 

[catrains]

sell the bricks .

 

[e60ral]

if you are specifically asking how much the max you can do safely, go weigh your car (or look at estimated curb weight) then subtract that from the gvwr to figure out what your available payload is. i think your standard brick weigh a bit over 4 lbs. divide payload by average brick weight and that's how many bricks you can carry.

how to secure them safely is another matter, i wouldn't want to be carrying a load of loose bricks inside my vehicle on anything more than neighborhood streets.

 

[Toffees]

Anyone have an idea on the amount you can put in the back of the SR5? Going to be taking bricks to recycling place. I did this in my 2001 and remember that it was a bit of a pain to take turns. Looking at about 3/4 pallet of bricks - but these are solid so they weigh more.

The venerable internet tells me that a pallet/cube of bricks weighs 1.5T to 1.8T. So at 3/4 pallet, you're looking maybe at 2,400 to 2,900 lbs of load.

Maybe the math here is wrong, but if it's not, you'll be needing a trailer.

Or a new 4R.

 

[jwkilgore]

sell the bricks .

^--- This, with the requirement that the buyer buy all and remove them within a set time. Set the price ridiculously low, but you have to charge something or they'll think you are getting rid of junk and won't bite.

If you were closer I'd be interested becasue I want to build a smoker/grill in my back yard.



But if you just want to haul them, keep in mind the GVWR is based on full capability and safety in a modern litigious society with piss-poor drivers. If you are a skilled, attentive driver (slow curves, lots of braking time) it's possible to greatly exceed the GVWR without having the vehicle blow up the instant you turn the key.

 

[catrains]

bricks are used for landscaping. labor in Texas IS cheap. I am sure a Landscaping co. has many day workers paid a few bucks a day to take those bricks and put down a walk way or patio area.

very easy to sell stuff now its free and most times sold quickly .. what can go wrong with a brick LOL..

put the bricks on pallets and the buyer will haul away .