Planning on turning this into a nice small compact rig to hold some debris, 48" Wright and a 32" Gravely. Here are the inital pictures of the bed removed. I will be adding more photo as the build goes. BTW I will build one if anyone is interested. Should take us 2 days to complete this setup and I will be building a heavy duty unit possibly capable of dumping.
This will not be a dump. This is just a small residential mowing platform. 88" wide 7.5ft long flat plus 18-24" dove and 6ft bi-folding gate. Waiting on my airbags to come in. I may move the rear axle back, but I'm going to wait until it's done and then scale each wheel and see how it is distributed first.
Only got to work on it for a few hours today. I had to get a new chop saw and then trim some palms and a spring clean up today. Got the deck done and the upper rail is done. Started working on the dovetail got it setup. I went with an 18inch dove and going to make a bi-folding 6ft ramp.
I like this setup, I built one on my 1500 last spring and love it. My only question, are you using all 1.5" or 2" angle? Doesn't seem beefy enough but I very easily could be missing something.....
I like this setup, I built one on my 1500 last spring and love it. My only question, are you using all 1.5" or 2" angle? Doesn't seem beefy enough but I very easily could be missing something.....
1.5x1.5 3/16 I will be running a 3x5 square tubing on the front and rear frame across. I looked through your build and thought yours was pretty "beefy". I have bigger trucks for anything other than just mowing and hedge trimming. I still have to add in more support for the dove too. I just framed it out while someone was there to hold some stuff. Could you put a ztr rider on yours without scraping?
id love to fab a removable pin-on dove tail for my dump truck so i can run everything out of one truck and get rid of trailering the 16ft trailer around . It would make everyhting so efficent. I could dump everything in the front(11 ft bed) and use the back 8 feet for the mowers and still have 3 feet of dove tail for wiggle room.
I love the work youve done, perfect for small narrow streets.
That is extremely wide compaired to the cab. In Michigan that would be illegal without a tonnnnn of DOT tape, yellow clearance tape on each corner and red on the back and back sides.
Don't mean to disrespect, but that whole thing looks weak. Framing wise I mean. But I don't really know your situation so I maybe wrong. Posted via Mobile Device
Still would like to know what gauge of steel you're using. Also, the width might be concerning. I can see 6 inches each side of the cab. Anything more than a foot, then you'd be better off going with 80" wide on a half ton.
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