Weigh Bridges!

Telboyo

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• Apr 15, 2019

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Has anyone else noticed the number of weighbridges on the CF? Every other village or hamlet seems to have a weighbridge. No shop no Albergue but almost always a weighbridge, a lot of them appear disused yet most villages have them? Were they used to charge tolls depending on weight of the vehicles?

 

Davey Boyd

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• Apr 15, 2019

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When I was walking at grape harvesting time I saw a lot of them being used. The whole tractor and trailer would drive on and weigh. So I thought they were for weighing produce from the fields.

I may be wrong though!
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• Apr 15, 2019

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These things? Like Davey, I assumed that they were for weighing produce.

These are big enough to weigh a trailer of wheat or even sheep. But what would you use to weigh a whale?
(A whale weigh bridge).

 

Telboyo

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• Apr 16, 2019

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Raggy said:

These things? Like Davey, I assumed that they were for weighing produce.
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These are big enough to weigh a trailer of wheat or even sheep. But what would you use to weigh a whale?
(A whale weigh bridge).

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Where would you weigh a pie?


Somewhere over a rainbow

Way up high