seat of my pants scissor dump

[sizzami]

I am building a dump hoist for 2002 F-250 v8 I bought this truck about a year ago and it has been great but the wheel wells have started to rust so I got a great deal on a new flat bed, and I thought it would be great to be able to dump firewood and mulch etc.
it has helper springs and airbags so it is pretty much only limited by my tires as far as weight.
I did a lot of thinking about the dump mechanism and I concluded that I could build most of it before removing the factory box to limit down time.
my thought is as long as I make a functioning scissor and leave the location of the body attachments for last I should be okay. I.E knowing the length of the sub frame and the depth of the channels , I have a four x sixteen cylinder.
I started today by thinking out the various pivots an fabricating the components for those then got a start on rough assembley. so far I have about 6 hours in it.
the subframe will be 3" channel and I just ordered an electric over pump for it.

 

[Beefie]

Looks like a good start, keep the pics coming.


Beefie

 

[Army grunt]

Looks great keep the pics. coming
Army Grunt

 

[mwb]

What is that bit in the drill press?

 

[FarmerSid]

Looks like a hole saw.

 

[sizzami]

so the scissor lift is done and next came light and hitch considerations so I decided to do a pintle plate even though I dont use a pintle hook setup.
step one measure and layout plate , I used 3/8 because as I said this is a light duty set up and the whole thing is well gusseted, the truck is my daily driver.
I used a torch and did a very good job if I say so myself of cutting out shape and holes for lights and the liscense plate.
a really good benefit of using this configuration is that I didnt need a seperate liscense plate light and another is that the lights and the tag stay tucked safely away behind the plate.
after the trailer hitch and lights came fenders , I chose to build fenders because they allow me to keep the mud flaps small . to me there is nothing uglier on a truck than big floppy rubber flaps.
the project is now pretty much done .so here are the pictures. the head board on my body was also in need of some help I squared it up and added expanded metal and slots for side boards which are next , I have some tamarac logs that Im gonna saw into 5/4 should be good.

 

[Army grunt]

Great looking:thumbsup:
Army Grunt

 

[wdchyd]

Nice work sizzami, I like the fenders also......:thumbsup:

 

[J_J]

Nice build.

Did you do all the welding.

Sure looks good to me.

 

[sizzami]

thanks jj I didnt build the body but did everything else ie the subframe fenders hoist and pintle and for some reason the headboard was angled so I squared the edges and added expanded metal