On 10/7/05, pete or nancy owsianowski <pnocean@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I used Joe's Van ('87 Westy) to haul our old stove to the metal recycler
> yesterday. The Bus weighed 4700 lbs on the drive-on Toledo scale with me,
> my brother Chris ('87 Wolfsburg, '85 Westy) and the old stove.
>
> It weighed 4520 without the stove. Chris weighs 195, I weigh 184.
>
> Amazing how that old stove fit right in the bus!

 OK, so is 4520 with you and Chris in it? That means the stove is only 180
lbs. That's like one of me in the back seat. Otherwise, in the other
scenario, it weighs 559 lbs. That's almost as much a small heifer. Speaking
of heifers, my ex...[no reference to her weigh intended but close =) ]
Anyway, Ex's parents used to carry their heifer Bessie in the back of their
Type 2 bus. No reason why you can't carry a cow in a Vanagon. Maybe that's
why they call the campers Westfalia as in the place in Germany with a lot of
cows.
 Now wasn't that fun?
 BenT