Alum. flatbed input.

scooterh wrote:

Marcela wrote:
I checked with Alumline on aluminum flatbed for 10.4 a couple weeks ago, 10-12 weeks, $12-13k, and 100 lbs. per running foot.

Was that quote for a flatbed or a alum. utility bed?

A quote I got last year from Ravens trailer in Dover Oh. for just a deck, receiver hitch and wired lights in rear was less than $4000. Boxes would be extra. Deck would be less than 2 inches higher than frame rails with no cross members. Deck material is what they used on their flatbed trailers. I've put a 50000# single coil on 2 -4x4s in coil racks 4 ft apart, and never stretched the floor. Of coarse the design is different than I beams in conjunction with cross members, but I doubt I'd have more than 2 or 3 hundred #s on either side. Hard to say what the price would be with the increase in alum. costs.
If everything falls into place and I choose Ravens to build deck, I'll take pictures of material and fabrication to post online.
Keep in mind most of the weight with a truck camper is concentrated over the truck frame rails.

I can't post a pic of it but search my few posts and there is a pic of one another guy has, I asked him about it. Pretty fancy at that price.

I'm thinking a 9' steel flatbed and bolt aluminum boxes to the bottom and leaving the top open. If you get a 9' flatbed with the corners cut you can almost mount a 10.4 all the way to the front I believe as it is mostly flat across the bottom except for the outside portion is kind of in conflict.