Flatbed loading advice needed

I don't see why not. I worked at a fiberglas boat factory an they movesd boats up to 24' long an a big forklift.

I load and unload ours with extensions ( front only) to get jacks outside the dully wheels. I built my own out of channel iron. Is the camper you have setup for a (3) or (4) jack lift? Would be harder w/(3) jack system. Have you thought about building a rack that has rollers on it that could be used to (back up to) and roll it onto the flatbed? There is a picture of ours if you go to my profile, second picture

I think you should be able to load with a forklift. You just have to figure out a tiedown method.

You will need a big fork lift. That's a lot of weight and it's far away from the fork lift.

Itchey Feet wrote:
I load and unload ours with extensions ( front only) to get jacks outside the dully wheels. I built my own out of channel iron. Is the camper you have setup for a (3) or (4) jack lift? Would be harder w/(3) jack system. Have you thought about building a rack that has rollers on it that could be used to (back up to) and roll it onto the flatbed? There is a picture of ours if you go to my profile, second picture

Thanks for your response itchey feet! The camper has a 4 jack system, but the passenger rear jack has been ripped out of the framing & would need to be repaired if I wanted it to be functional. But since the jacks don't do much good when loading on a flatbed truck or a trailer, not sure if it is worth repairing. I just need to figure out a way to get it lifted & just drive under it without the use of jacks.

Tyler0215 wrote:
You will need a big fork lift. That's a lot of weight and it's far away from the fork lift.

I have a Bobcat 873 skid loader with a 2700# lift & 4800# tilt rating. The camper I am looking at has a 1400# weight rating according the manufacturers sticker on the side.

Tyler0215 wrote:
You will need a big fork lift. That's a lot of weight and it's far away from the fork lift.

I also thought about this method of loading onto my flatbed. However the center of gravity was too far forward with the extended cabover to load from the side or the rear of the camper,even with long enough forks and a high capacity fork lift the balance point could not be safely achieved. What we ended up doing was installing two large capacity laminated wood beams over head in my shop building.One in line with the jack plates on each side of the camper.Then I purchased four cheap 1 ton chain hoist from HF,one for each jack plate.Works great, I simply swing the camper from the beams.Made loading and off loading fast, and much safer than the wobbly jacks. Alignment when loading was not so important, just swing the camper a little to line up with one hand as you lower the chain hoist.Turns out the mice cannot get to it either, I guess they wont climb down the hoist chains.Another benefit I can sit the camper all the down on the floor if I need to for easy maintenance when needed.

Because it's going on a flatbed, you can forklift the camper from the side so it won't be hanging as far out as it would be if you lifted from the end.