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bikendan
Feb 27, 2014Explorer
RoyB wrote:
The HYBRID tent beds are mounted outside the trailer and drop down from the top and gets supported with cables.
The POPUP tent beds are pull out types and supported by a tent bed rail. They need the pole support after the tent bed floor is pulled all the way out.
Roy Ken
Roy, hybrid beds initially were supported by poles, just like popups, only the bed platform dropped down instead of being pulled out.
but the pole mounts were welded like they are on popups, two on the A-frame and two on the rear bumper/frame.
around 2004 or 2005, cable-supported bunk platforms started showing up. took 2-3 years before all the hybrid manufacturers went completely to the cable systems.
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