happijac lift bed ALTERNATIVE
I want a queen lift bed in the rear of my toy hauler. Queen on top and couch on bottom that can look forward or out the back door. Happijac makes this exactly but too much $$$ for me. I know i can ...
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I've had those unistrut pieces in my hands before, they won't work for vertical application IMHO, they're meant to rest in the turned up portion of the track with the track opening facing down and would bind within the track when vertical.
Also note that the beds need to be sort of free floating in the brackets if attached to the walls since the walls are not perfectly parallel. The bottom brackets of my Happijac are elongated to allow this to occur and you can see from the paint that they do move.
If you're a good fabricator you could come up with something similar to that in the link you sent with most of the weight supported off the floor, wall attachment just for stability and a cable lifting mechanism. But that will be a LOT of work.
Check some of the R.V. salvage yards, maybe you can find a bed system out of a wrecked hauler, lord knows we see enough pictures of wrecked trailers on this site.
Also note that the beds need to be sort of free floating in the brackets if attached to the walls since the walls are not perfectly parallel. The bottom brackets of my Happijac are elongated to allow this to occur and you can see from the paint that they do move.
If you're a good fabricator you could come up with something similar to that in the link you sent with most of the weight supported off the floor, wall attachment just for stability and a cable lifting mechanism. But that will be a LOT of work.
Check some of the R.V. salvage yards, maybe you can find a bed system out of a wrecked hauler, lord knows we see enough pictures of wrecked trailers on this site.
