21 October 2020, 21:32
American pickups in their full size persuasion have, as a standard feature, a bed that is 4 feet wide, 8 feet long and two feet deep.
You fill that sucker up level and you have a rick. Pile it up to the top pf the cab and you have a rick and a half. Two level loads make a cord. You instantly know how much you have when you fill the truck.
Japanese trucks were more difficult to estimate with their oddly sized, nonstandard beds. They were not even standard by metric units. Usually piled to the top of the cab they were about a rick, but you never could be certain until you measured that first load.
You fill that sucker up level and you have a rick. Pile it up to the top pf the cab and you have a rick and a half. Two level loads make a cord. You instantly know how much you have when you fill the truck.
Japanese trucks were more difficult to estimate with their oddly sized, nonstandard beds. They were not even standard by metric units. Usually piled to the top of the cab they were about a rick, but you never could be certain until you measured that first load.
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