Steps for pickup bed access

[Duffster]

Check your math.

See the post after yours.

But yes, 0" off of the ground would actually work out quite well, 'twer possible.

Checked, whats wrong with it?

 

[Reg]

High pick-ups are a PROBLEM with gooseneck trailers; high sides make it even worse.
People variously lower the truck, block up trailer axles and/or clip the top of the truck bed sides.

My "solution" was to buy a chassis/cab and have a flat with gooseneck ball below a trap door installed.
Hillsboro brand, aluminum, the trap door and hitch are built into the flat at the factory, a fairly straightforward bolt on install.
I built my own stake sides, looks like a "fer real" Fahm truck.

With a flat I can load just about anything from the side and (as long as I'm legal width) things can hang over the sides.
No 50" between wheel wells crap here.

 

[LBrown59]

1*High pick-ups are a PROBLEM with gooseneck trailers; high sides make it even worse.

2*My "solution" was to buy a chassis/cab and have a flat with gooseneck ball below a trap door installed.
Hillsboro brand, aluminum, the trap door and hitch are built into the flat at the factory, a fairly straightforward bolt on install.
I built my own stake sides, looks like a "fer real" Fahm truck.

3*With a flat I can load just about anything from the side and (as long as I'm legal width) things can hang over the sides.
No 50" between wheel wells crap here.

1*loading and unloading such a pick up with a small TLB is A disgusting joke.
2*I think I will have to go with a flat bed with a dump bed or other wise a pick up will be totally useless to me due to the outrageously stupid over height of them.
3*Ya got it rite there.

 

[Reg]

I can lift a small/smallish disk harrow onto the flat bed just by hooking a chain from the top link pin to my FEL bucket, it "dangles" and I can put it onto a couple of 2x8s to keep the disks off the aluminum floor.
The bed is certainly higher than the bottom of a regular pick-up tin box bed, since it is over the wheels, but of course it is WAY lower than the sides of a tin box bed.
It isn't too low to be a problem at regular loading docks, maybe 8 or 10 inches lower than a "regular" tractor trailer's van trailer floor, so it works out pretty well for picking up stuff at loading docks.

Werks fer me.

 

[archerm3]

Checked, whats wrong with it?

57" bed rail height, minus 24" of what I said, does not equal 0-6" off of the ground.

57-24= 33

Which means (if the bed sides were lower than what you get today) I don't have to lift 100 lb something over my head to get into/out of the bed. Because something that weighs 100 lbs is not going to have a handle or grip on it that can clear a bed rail by 57.0001". How high is a five gallon bucket handle above the bottom of the bucket, and how many dents/scratches do "you" want on the side of a BRAND new truck bed?

Now I need a step so I can load the bed. Why not just make the bed sides lower? Like they were for the last fifty effing years.

You owe me 20 bucks for doing your thinking(math) for you. I take paypal.

 

[Duffster]

57" bed rail height, minus 24" of what I said, does not equal 0-6" off of the ground.

57-24= 33

Which means (if the bed sides were lower than what you get today) I don't have to lift 100 lb something over my head to get into/out of the bed. Because something that weighs 100 lbs is not going to have a handle or grip on it that can clear a bed rail by 57.0001". How high is a five gallon bucket handle above the bottom of the bucket, and how many dents/scratches do "you" want on the side of a BRAND new truck bed?

Now I need a step so I can load the bed. Why not just make the bed sides lower? Like they were for the last fifty effing years.

You owe me 20 bucks for doing your thinking(math) for you. I take paypal.

Wow mathematician

My bed sides are 20" tall and the floor is ~4" tall.

With your previous post a 2'-3' reduction in height would place the bottom of the bed 9" above to 3" below grade.

Now who owes who ( I take cash)

 

[LBrown59]

Why not just make the bed sides lower? Like they were for the last fifty effing years.

Because companies can seldom ever get any thing rite and if they ever do they can't leave it alone with out screwing it up.

 

[Reg]

It has to do with SELLING trucks.
It has little/nothing to do with USING trucks AS TRUCKS.

Any more than "Croozer" style two wheel things have ANYTHING to do with motorcycles.

 

[archerm3]

Wow mathematician

My bed sides are 20" tall and the floor is ~4" tall.

With your previous post a 2'-3' reduction in height would place the bottom of the bed 9" above to 3" below grade.

Now who owes who ( I take cash)

Your bed raills are 20" above the ground? Methinks you are confused. You're on some other plane of reference that the rest of us in this thread are on.

Again, 57 inches above the ground, reduced by 24 inches, leaves 33 inches above the ground. For the top of the bed sides. I didn't say anything about the bed level.

You still owe me.

Just admit already that you like how trucks keep getting taller every year, because it looks cool.

 

[Duffster]

Your bed raills are 20" above the ground? Methinks you are confused. You're on some other plane of reference that the rest of us in this thread are on.

Again, 57 inches above the ground, reduced by 24 inches, leaves 33 inches above the ground. For the top of the bed sides. I didn't say anything about the bed level.

You still owe me.

Just admit already that you like how trucks keep getting taller every year, because it looks cool.

I guess the math is just to much for you eh?

Todays F350's are the exact same height as my '99 F350 (57"). So I guess I will have to leave you old boys to talk about the good old days.

PS I am sorry you are short, get used to it because you are probably done growing, taller anyway.