hey all, I'm going to look at a camper this weekend and hoping to pick it up. Now my tow truck is down waiting for parts, and I'll be passing through were the camper is with my work truck. I'm looking for some pointers on some quick mounts I can make for my work truck to be able to get the camper home on a 500km highway trip. My work truck is a crew cab long box 2015 gmc 3500. Can i just make a belly bar for the front and rear or do you have any other suggestions?

im either thinking to make a belly bar out of 1.5 square tubing, mounting it to an existing hole in the frame, and making a rear bar that's inserted into the hitch. Or my other option is to drive down with my works bobcat trailer and haul it home that way.

Take your trailer....the camper MAY be to short for the cab on your truck, so you would have to boost it up to clear anyway.

I looked at my camper 750 miles away. It looked like exactly what I wanted. Gave the guy a deposit and told him I'd be back in two weeks with my truck to pick it up. Why not just do that?

sasq40 wrote:im either thinking to make a belly bar out of 1.5 square tubing, mounting it to an existing hole in the frame, and making a rear bar that's inserted into the hitch. That's exactly what I did. On the rear, I was able to stick some tubing into the open outboard ends of the transverse tube of the receiver hitch. A little grinding was needed for it to fit. On the front belly bar, there was stuff in the way of putting it in the ideal location, it had to go too far back. So I put a couple ratchet straps from the bumper of the camper to the bumper of the truck to make sure it didn't slide rearward. Good luck, I hope it works out!

I pickup up my 4300 lb dry weight camper with flatbed and no ties. But the camper had strong jacks and no problem to mount hooks on flatbed, so I used lot of nylon straps to hold it against the headache bar. That said after about 200 miles the camper shifted on steel deck and I had to reposition it, putting the straps in X-patter now and that made 2000 miles trip home with no future problems. For longer bed you will need to figure out solid front stops. GET RUBBER MAT if you have steel bed. Lot of strong ties in all possible directions. Straps are cheap, picking up dropped camper from the middle of highway is not.

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Hemi_Joel
Explorer
May 31, 2017
sasq40 wrote:
im either thinking to make a belly bar out of 1.5 square tubing, mounting it to an existing hole in the frame, and making a rear bar that's inserted into the hitch.

That's exactly what I did. On the rear, I was able to stick some tubing into the open outboard ends of the transverse tube of the receiver hitch. A little grinding was needed for it to fit. On the front belly bar, there was stuff in the way of putting it in the ideal location, it had to go too far back. So I put a couple ratchet straps from the bumper of the camper to the bumper of the truck to make sure it didn't slide rearward.

Good luck, I hope it works out!
996Pilot
Explorer
May 31, 2017
I looked at my camper 750 miles away. It looked like exactly what I wanted. Gave the guy a deposit and told him I'd be back in two weeks with my truck to pick it up. Why not just do that?
slickrock_steve
Explorer
May 31, 2017
Take your trailer....the camper MAY be to short for the cab on your truck, so you would have to boost it up to clear anyway.
sasq40
Explorer
May 31, 2017
im either thinking to make a belly bar out of 1.5 square tubing, mounting it to an existing hole in the frame, and making a rear bar that's inserted into the hitch. Or my other option is to drive down with my works bobcat trailer and haul it home that way.

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