Sometimes I have a need to deliver a beam to a customer. So I modified an item I already had. In the beginning this was a unit that I connected into the receiver of the hitch and attatched a picket line to the top which was about 6 feet in the air...let you put up a picket line for your horses just about anywhere, you could put one end of the rope to your trailer if there were just nothing else around.....I drilled a hole to attatch the long end in the receiver and made a t to go in the short end...leveled it up with the bed of the truck and drilled it out... will test it shortly. I think I can carry at least 20 footers on it.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18028/beam_transporter.jpg) May do a little modifying..could even put lights on it. Feel free to move this to where ever it needs to go...I thought it was kind of saw mill related.... Banjo
Mr Banjo
Nice that will work good for long stock .
A light would be a finishing touch .
Jim/bruno of nh
I have one that I built several years ago, but never thought about using it to haul lumber. :-[
Quote from: Magicman on December 05, 2014, 10:30:02 PM
but never thought about using it to haul lumber. :-[
Can't haul what you leave. ;D
I had a customer come and want to buy some firewood [slabs] He had a small truck and wanted to get a lower price. I said ok. He was around the other side of some logs and could not see him. Well, when he left I see this thing out the back of the truck with more wood than what you could put on a reg truck. He all ready pad me and drove past me at 50mph. Never to be seen again. :D :D
Now I look for things like that now. :D :D :D
Quote from: Magicman on December 05, 2014, 10:30:02 PM
I have one that I built several years ago, but never thought about using it to haul lumber. :-[
I guess a gentleman could use it to haul a small boat. smiley_lit_bulb
what do you use yours for??? Banjo
For tail lights, I clamp a piece of steel to the end of the boards and stick on a pair of magnetic tail lights. OK for a few boards, but much of a load will sure makes the ol' Chevy light on the steering. Maybe I should have it fitted with differential braking.
I'm not planning on overloading it. :D You know how that goes. Banjo
Quote from: Peter Drouin on December 05, 2014, 11:17:30 PM
I had a customer come and want to buy some firewood [slabs] He had a small truck and wanted to get a lower price. I said ok. He was around the other side of some logs and could not see him. Well, when he left I see this thing out the back of the truck with more wood than what you could put on a reg truck. He all ready pad me and drove past me at 50mph. Never to be seen again. :D :D
Now I look for things like that now. :D :D :D
Gotcha! :D
My son-in-law built one of those a couple years ago to use for hauling
a canoe and a kayak in his pick-up. fishin-smiley
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Quote from: Peter Drouin on December 05, 2014, 11:17:30 PM
I had a customer come and want to buy some firewood [slabs] He had a small truck and wanted to get a lower price. I said ok. He was around the other side of some logs and could not see him. Well, when he left I see this thing out the back of the truck with more wood than what you could put on a reg truck. He all ready pad me and drove past me at 50mph. Never to be seen again. :D :D
Now I look for things like that now. :D :D :D
Gotcha! :D
That's ok, I never forget a thief :D :D
Gona try it out tomorrow.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18028/beam_transporter_with_lumber.jpg) 18' 6" 2 x 10 pine
Looks good, Up here most guys have head boards and run the lumber over the cab.
Great idea! I built one a few years ago for the canoes. The T runs higher up level with the backrack so that long wood or lumber goes across the top of the truck. I extended it back from the receiver so that the truck gate can still drop down. The lesser distance out from the receiver to the vertical allows me to take more weight, and keeps the sway down.
I just slightly modified something I already had. Just for an occational item or two. Banjo
I built one quite awhile ago to haul 16 foot steel roofing on. Worked great for that. But, now I can't get the hitch out of the receiver, so, don't work so well now..off hand, anyone know how to get a rusted in hitch out of the receiver without two days worth of effort? Already tried chaining it to a tree, smoked all four tires in 4 low, and didn't move it an inch.. :-[
Blue Creeper
I tried that headboard thing with a wooden 40' extension ladder 40+ years ago. Let me just say an education costs money! It caught on a low hanging limb and I saw the ladder shatter as it hit the pavement...
Quote from: crowhill on December 09, 2014, 08:00:09 PM
I tried that headboard thing with a wooden 40' extension ladder 40+ years ago. Let me just say an education costs money! It caught on a low hanging limb and I saw the ladder shatter as it hit the pavement...
You're supposed to close the ladder before you put it on the truck. :D :D ;)
It did fine on its maiden voyage, about 25 miles. Banjo
Looks pretty good, quite a bit longer than mine, I was mainly concerned about keeping weight off the tailgate. I put some vertical post on the ends, that I can remove for wide items, to keep stuff from sliding off the ends. The pic has a yellow swim noodle over it in the pic to protect the canoe. Made from SS.
But it works pretty good for other stuff too...
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23226/DSC01944.JPG)
Quote from: Peter Drouin on December 09, 2014, 08:12:05 PM
Quote from: crowhill on December 09, 2014, 08:00:09 PM
I tried that headboard thing with a wooden 40' extension ladder 40+ years ago. Let me just say an education costs money! It caught on a low hanging limb and I saw the ladder shatter as it hit the pavement...
You're supposed to close the ladder before you put it on the truck. :D :D ;)
:D :D
Years ago, I borrowed a neighbor's 24' extension ladder to work on a friends project that was about 60 miles away. Put it in the back of my pickup and had supplies loaded on it on the way down. On the way back, just the ladder (which I did not secure :(). Flying down an empty back road (straight and flat), I see the ladder slide up and over the tailgate. Crud - so I stop and hear a strange sound and see the ladder fly out from under my truck and up the road a little ways! No damage other then my pride ::)
Just an FYI. There are regulations regarding overhanging materials from a transporting vehicle.
In New Hampshire:
1) No cargo shall overhang to the driver's side more than 6 inches from the widest part of the vehicle
2) No cargo shall overhang to the passenger's side more than 24 inches from the widest part of the vehicle
3) Cargo extending from the rear of the vehicle more than 4 feet from the rear most tail lamps there shall be displayed at the extreme end of the load or projecting part of the vehicle during darkness, in addition to the required tail lamp, two red lights with a bulb rated not in excess of six candlepower plainly visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the sides and rear. At any other time there shall be displayed at the extreme end of the load or projecting part of the vehicle a solid red or fluorescent orange flag or cloth not less than 12 inches square.
Additionally, the total length of the overhang shall not exceed 2/3 of the wheelbase of the vehicle (if the distance between the front an rear axles is 15 feet, the cargo shall not overhang more than 10 feet from the last support).
I'm not sure if there has been a rash of incidents from having Lowe's in town (been here for a few years now), or what the story is, but I've been hearing more stories of officers citing cargo securement violations. On the other hand, it could be that I'm more aware of it as I and my family have been hauling more stuff between our houses.