Rebuild old flatbed, or start from scratch?
I have a 18K GVRW truck with a 12 foot long Western flatbed on it, with a trashed wood deck. My plan is to drop my current short bed Six-Pac camper on it for a while, then replace it with a larger mo...
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Given that large chunks of some of the planks have already given way (which is what the galvanized sheets are covering, along with the large hole in front of the black plastic container to the right), I was more concerned about more of them falling out and dropping the camper.
Cost isn't really a concern here...even dropping a bunch of 2x6s from Home Depot is only about $100 worth of wood. I'm guessing it wouldn't be much more if I got pressure treated from an actual lumber yard.
I also briefly considered extending the bed a few feet so that I could load the 4x4 up behind the camper, and ditch the trailer altogether, but what to do for ramps was always the stopping point for me. Or more specifically, how to stow the ramps on the truck afterwards as they would need to be make considerably longer than standard trailer ramps to accommodate the height of the bed.
Cost isn't really a concern here...even dropping a bunch of 2x6s from Home Depot is only about $100 worth of wood. I'm guessing it wouldn't be much more if I got pressure treated from an actual lumber yard.
I also briefly considered extending the bed a few feet so that I could load the 4x4 up behind the camper, and ditch the trailer altogether, but what to do for ramps was always the stopping point for me. Or more specifically, how to stow the ramps on the truck afterwards as they would need to be make considerably longer than standard trailer ramps to accommodate the height of the bed.
