Thinking of building a sled deck

[tasco]

as the title say's I'm thinking of building a sled deck to fit in my Chev 04 crewcab shortbox d-max, don't feel like spending the money on a new alluninum deck.

I'm looking for pictures of some decks out there (on the ground not in the truck) , and if anyone has built thier own. I need some ideas.

I have some ideas in my head and am trying to sort things out before I haul out my chop saw and plasma cutter.

I'm going to build it out of 1inch steel tubing with 3/4" plywood top, with 4' wide ramp.

 

[TylerG]

as the title say's I'm thinking of building a sled deck to fit in my Chev 04 crewcab shortbox d-max, don't feel like spending the money on a new alluninum deck.

I'm looking for pictures of some decks out there (on the ground not in the truck) , and if anyone has built thier own. I need some ideas.

I have some ideas in my head and am trying to sort things out before I haul out my chop saw and plasma cutter.

I'm going to build it out of 1inch steel tubing with 3/4" plywood top, with 4' wide ramp.

if you make one and its successful, I might be talking to ya about getting one for my Sport Trac.

 

[cat girl]

Hi,

My hubby made a great deck (we have the same truck) It has a drive on drive off plan which is awesome! I will get some pic's..he might even still have his plans. He copied my brothers deck and our friends have copied ours.. LOL

 

[tasco]

I'll be looking forward to seeing those plans or pict's

 

[teamgreen]

I would also like to see the plans and any available pictures

 

[GRD]

if you make one and its successful, I might be talking to ya about getting one for my Sport Trac.

Deck on a sport trac.... No more capacity for anything else... Post pictures

Hard not to give you the gears about that.....

 

[TylerG]

Deck on a sport trac.... No more capacity for anything else... Post pictures

Hard not to give you the gears about that.....

I can't even fit my darn Bicycle in the back of the stupid thing.... I think a new truck will be in order...... SOON!

 

[whopper809]

Here's a few pics of a deck we built a few years back. Puck board could of used a bit more work but would sit flat in the winter just pucker in the summer heat. Best feature is the two side ramp one for quads and the other for sleds

 

[whopper809]

a few more pics

 

[tasco]

nice job, built out of Aluninum.

I don't have an aluninum spoolgun for my mig, nor the AC tig modual for my welder. so it will have to be steel. Weight is not a real issue b/c steel is stronger than aluninum so smaller peices can be used, and it is going in my chev HD 2500 shortbox

This gives me Ideas.

 

[GRD]

a few more pics

Nice looking deck... Does it slide in and out to the width of the truck?

 

[foothills m8]

I have a steel deck with a beaver tail on it you might want to look at this , i dont have any pics as i dont know how to load them on 2 here but i live close to you and would meet you and show you if you want. Tasco

 

[whopper809]

Nice looking deck... Does it slide in and out to the width of the truck?

No the sides don't slide, that would have been a nice feature though.

 

[Hillclimber]

sweet looking deck looks better than some of the ones you can buy

 

[papajake]

tasco i built my own deck with sides that slide in all steel little heavy but you would never bent it's about 10 years old seen alot of miles stays on winter and summer needs a paint job but 10 years between paint can't complain a unknown manufacturer took pictures of it at revy 1st year out there next year same deck but aluminium showed up if your interested could meet you in calgary

 

[Keng]

hey whopper sweet looking deck. do you still happen to have the plans for this bad boy. looking to build one for my dogde short box. just looking at the pics cant tell how its held to the truck

thanx.

 

[whopper809]

hey whopper sweet looking deck. do you still happen to have the plans for this bad boy. looking to build one for my dogde short box. just looking at the pics cant tell how its held to the truck

thanx.

Hey Keng, no I don't have any plans left, it was a design and go deal. The deck was tied down by turn buckles from the tabs welded to the deck and attached to the factory hold downs in the box. Or the outside tabs could of been used if the truck had camper bars to tie down to.

 

[whopper809]

Here's pics of another deck we built and a pic of the way she's tied down. The sled deck was the same idea.

 

[catzuki]

nice work. I might have a deck this week im buying and converting from a long box to short box. Its a good deck for the price. expanadble sides, 12' ramp, lights, superclamps, etc. Now i just need to do some aluminum welding and im good to go for the chritmas holidays.

 

[big_AL08]

You've cleared my head it's got the K.I.S.S. factor. very nice clean simple deck nice job!