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Sort of a thought exercise: Imagine three 4x4's in your pickup bed, tailgate down. Can you run a strap from one side to the other, that holds them down?

On previous trucks, before I got the overhead rack, I put lumber in the bed, front end on the floor, rear end sticking over the closed tailgate, tie-down strap going to the mid-height rear anchors.

That doesn't work as well now with just a 5ft+ bed, so the current truck got a rack right away.

Bruce

As deezler said, stack them in a triangle - but then, don't put the strap over the top but have the strap go over and around them and finally back to the other side. This way the stack stays together, otherwise the two on the bottom may work their way to the sides and the top drop down and then you've got a slack strap. With the strap looped around, tension holds them in the triangle position as well and forces them down into the bed. For bonus points, wrap around them a bit further towards the tailgate so that the strap tension pulls them towards the cab (don't do this with hypothetical frictionless 4x4's).

 

[BigBlue1]

Sort of a thought exercise: Imagine three 4x4's in your pickup bed, tailgate down. Can you run a strap from one side to the other, that holds them down?

On previous trucks, before I got the overhead rack, I put lumber in the bed, front end on the floor, rear end sticking over the closed tailgate, tie-down strap going to the mid-height rear anchors.

That doesn't work as well now with just a 5ft+ bed, so the current truck got a rack right away.

Bruce

I either stack them up to get some height so the strap can get decent down-pressure or wrap the strap around them so the strap 'cinches' them when tightened. If it was something like a single sheet of plywood I'd probably add in some other hard object on top in the middle to create the down-pressure.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Sort of a thought exercise: Imagine three 4x4's in your pickup bed, tailgate down. Can you run a strap from one side to the other, that holds them down?

Okay, this is one piece of 5x5 square tubing, not 2x4s, but the same principle still applies. Either loop the strap around it or put something under the "load". Done.

In this case I opted for raising the load, partially to save the bedliner, and also because it was easy enough to keep the tubing from being able to move towards the rear. Not a lot of down force needed i this case.

It stayed in place for 150 miles of driving fast on a bumpy and quite curvy road.

 

[mrmikey]

As was said, stack them 1 on top of 2 but lay the strap down first, cross it over the top, one end to each side of the bed.

 

[Runner]

Sort of a thought exercise: Imagine three 4x4's in your pickup bed, tailgate down. Can you run a strap from one side to the other, that holds them down?

On previous trucks, before I got the overhead rack, I put lumber in the bed, front end on the floor, rear end sticking over the closed tailgate, tie-down strap going to the mid-height rear anchors.

That doesn't work as well now with just a 5ft+ bed, so the current truck got a rack right away.

Bruce

I would probably just put one of the truck inner tubes full of sand that I always carry in the bed over them, then tiedown strap over that to each rear corner.

 

[civilian]

I would probably just put one of the truck inner tubes full of sand that I always carry in the bed over them, then tiedown strap over that to each rear corner.

How do you keep the sand in the truck tube? Jon

 

[Runner]

How do you keep the sand in the truck tube? Jon

These are truck inner tubes that were cut in half. I twist one end like a Tootsie Roll wrapper and then wrap it with a piece of bailing wire. Pour in the sand, then twist the other end the same way and tie with wire.

I guess they hold maybe 50 lbs of sand or so. I doubt that they help traction or the ride of my F350, but they are very handy to keep stuff (like gas cans, etc.) from sliding around.

Don't tell anyone, but for short trips, I have even been known to use them to hold small pieces without any other tie downs.....

Big problem for me is that they are getting VERY old, will need to be replaced one of these days and trucks don't use inner tubes anymore.

 

[civilian]

These are truck inner tubes that were cut in half. I twist one end like a Tootsie Roll wrapper and then wrap it with a piece of bailing wire. Pour in the sand, then twist the other end the same way and tie with wire.

I guess they hold maybe 50 lbs of sand or so. I doubt that they help traction or the ride of my F350, but they are very handy to keep stuff (like gas cans, etc.) from sliding around.

Don't tell anyone, but for short trips, I haven even been known to use them to hold small pieces without any other tie downs.....

Big problem for me is that they are getting VERY old, will need to be replaced one of these days and trucks don't use inner tubes anymore.

Very similar to the tubes of sand we can buy for weight during the winter time. About 60 to 65 pounds per tube. Tube is a plastic type bag. Jon

 

[Runner]

Very similar to the tubes of sand we can buy for weight during the winter time. About 60 to 65 pounds per tube. Tube is a plastic type bag. Jon

Exactly, except the sand tubes you can buy don't hold up very long, especially when exposed to the weather. These inner tubes have been in the truck for probably close to 20 years and are just now starting to degrade.

 

[BnRidge]

I like the rubber tube idea. Add some salt to the sand to keep it thawed. Recently changed the tire and tube on the manure spreader. It takes 9x20 military tires - that should make some nice sand socks.