what does one ton equal?
See tonnage. short ton (usually called simply ton, in the USA or sometimes called a net ton) = 2,000 lb (about 907.18474 kg). Harbour ton used in South Africa in the 20th century, equal to 2000 pounds or one short ton. metric ton, usually referred to as a tonne, is 1,000 kg (or 1 Mg) or approximately 2,204.6 pounds. Both the long ton and the short ton are composed of twenty hundredweights, each having different values for the hundredweight (112 and 100 pounds respectively).