kohldad wrote:
Looking at the front edge of the floor, do you think it would be beneficial to add a tab in the center to provide additional support to the floor? The angle braces may narrow the gap enough, just hard to tell.
I would probably add one along the sides between each floor joist too. Easy to do and could stop a potential squeak. (Maybe I'm even more of a over-killer than you?)
For the tie downs, seeing a pic of the material on the truck, gives me an idea. Why don't you just have a way to run a spring loaded bolt up through a couple of stake pockets? Would leave clean sides and would solve the truck anchor points.
The floor boards are not in final place right now, I just put them there while I was working on the roof so I could have a ladder on them. There is a center beam supporting the floor in addition to the joists, and I have included extra beams under the doorway, bathroom, in the corners and under where the water and gray water tanks will be. It already feels solid walking on the boards even when they are not screwed or glued down.
The camper hangs over the flatbed, so the stake pockets actually are some distance under the belly of the camper. Also, having the tiedowns external like I do means it is probably easier to switch to other flatbed vehicles if I should ever need to do that.
