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Old 01-24-2020, 12:27 AM   #21
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Nice!


Very ambitious. For me, raising our back door by 20 inches seemed to be ambitious. Child's play in comparison.

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Old 01-24-2020, 08:48 AM   #22
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Love these projects of having a Bed on the back for hauling... its lookin great... Love the ford B series new holland diesels too, they have a great sound!
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Old 01-28-2020, 08:50 PM   #23
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Made a dining booth
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Old 01-29-2020, 02:03 AM   #24
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... a good use of the old bench seats.
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Old 01-29-2020, 06:58 PM   #25
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Gonna add a 3' dovetail to become a 13' bed for hauling toys



Are you going to have the whole bed hinge down or use ramps? What kind of toys?
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Old 01-29-2020, 08:47 PM   #26
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Are you going to have the whole bed hinge down or use ramps? What kind of toys?
The 3' extension will drop 10° w/8' ramps

I have a
'79 honda odyssey
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And a quad or 2
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Old 01-29-2020, 08:50 PM   #27
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Are you going to have the whole bed hinge down or use ramps?
Now you have my gears turning to make it a rollback bed setup..........
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Old 01-30-2020, 01:32 AM   #28
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Now you have my gears turning to make it a rollback bed setup..........



Sorry... didn't mean to complicate things, simple is quicker and cheaper.
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Old 01-30-2020, 05:54 AM   #29
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Sorry... didn't mean to complicate things, simple is quicker and cheaper.
The opposite, that would be awesome to have the whole bed tilt up and slide down to the ground instead of messing with ramps and such
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Old 01-30-2020, 12:02 PM   #30
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I would love to read this thread. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to wait ten minutes for the huge pictures to load....
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Old 01-30-2020, 05:34 PM   #31
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I would love to read this thread. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to wait ten minutes for the huge pictures to load....
I can draw with crayons pretty good if that helps
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Old 01-30-2020, 09:58 PM   #32
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I can draw with crayons pretty good if that helps

Prove it...no help from the kids.
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Old 01-30-2020, 10:25 PM   #33
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Damn.....he's on to me
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Old 01-31-2020, 03:45 AM   #34
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I would love to read this thread. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to wait ten minutes for the huge pictures to load....
Steve,


Pick a night and just let it load. The next time you load it it will be in your cache. I had the same problem a couple of days back.
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Old 01-31-2020, 07:21 AM   #35
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I'm "lucky" I don't have a smartphone. My desktop loads it all just fine.
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Old 01-31-2020, 08:05 PM   #36
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I am running on a low-end android tablet so this page does load slower than others. The first load was by far the worst due to the size of the images.
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Old 01-31-2020, 08:07 PM   #37
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Old 02-01-2020, 07:13 PM   #38
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Couldn't figure out why the speakers would work sometimes and only some would work and sometimes none would work, updated the stereo and all the problems where fixed AMAZING
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Old 02-01-2020, 07:17 PM   #39
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I ordered a few one-way diodes to hook the PA system up also, I figured out if I dont it back feeds thro the stereo and shuts it off every time I talk thro the PA
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Old 02-03-2020, 09:32 PM   #40
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I didnt get anything done this weekend, my sandrail bent a valve last September and I'm just now less angry at it enough to start working on it. BUT I may have found a (ruined) 35' camper that has all the appliances, plumbing, tanks ect ect.
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