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Beef, will add lights when I find the right one's ....
findsome SWEEPS of of a dozer or a back hoe to use they are tough as hell and vibration proof
Beef, will add lights when I find the right one's ....
Looks AWESOME Woodsman44! I have to get to building one for my F-250. I have the expanded metal for the "grate" but I need to get the square or rectangle stock for the frame and the angle for the bed.
Did you put anything under the angle to protect the paint on the truck?
Very nice work!.. I have to get around to making one of these. I have graphics on my back window and I keep damaging it with logs and wood being thrown inro the truck.
How much weight can a f350 haul in the bed? Assuming a cord of oak weighs 4400lbs, your going to haul 2 tons in the bed of a truck? I know its done, I see a local wood guy here do it all the time. But those springs are on bottom.
Looks nice either way. I'd haul hay bales in that all day. A cord of oak, eh I'd have to find out first.
I'm looking at buying a f350 right now. The girlie bought a new camper, and my truck won't haul it.
How much weight can a f350 haul in the bed? Assuming a cord of oak weighs 4400lbs, your going to haul 2 tons in the bed of a truck? I know its done, I see a local wood guy here do it all the time. But those springs are on bottom.
Looks nice either way. I'd haul hay bales in that all day. A cord of oak, eh I'd have to find out first.
I'm looking at buying a f350 right now. The girlie bought a new camper, and my truck won't haul it.
I finally got a chance to work on my racks a bit more, it would have been done last night except I ran out of Argon, ooohps. I went with the expanded metal because that is what the customer (my father) wanted. The first two pictures show what I did for the rear gate, it is made of 1.5" square horizontals which drop into four pieces of 1x2x3/16" channel (perfect fit). The tabs on the outboard of the lower mount restrict sideward movement and the pins restrict any upward movement. I made it this way to allow the gate to float on the side racks because depending on the load the sides may flex inward and outward making it nearly impossible to drop in a pin. The third is a pic of the entire unit; I'm pretty pleased overall and he was as well. In regard to the above posts about heavy loads, I can say that the heaviest documented load in this F-350 2WD DRW was coming out of the gravel pit with 4100# of rock in the bed. It made it 12 miles home and had 2-3" of spring travel left on the rear leaves.
How much weight can a f350 haul in the bed? Assuming a cord of oak weighs 4400lbs, your going to haul 2 tons in the bed of a truck?
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