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    finally have sides on my truck!



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    nice sides. Did you put a wood frame across the back window too? Save the windows and also use as a "headache rack" for those extra long pipes and such

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    Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
    nice sides. Did you put a wood frame across the back window too? Save the windows and also use as a "headache rack" for those extra long pipes and such
    Take a guard off of the back of a refrig. and use it as the "headache rack.
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    Looks good
    I have about the same setup BUT I put the 2X6's inside of the supports
    So when I go around a corner and a heavy item tries to escape, The 2X support keeps it in place
    With your design only the screws/nails keep that board (and heavy item) from pushing the boards off the 2X upright

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnC4X4 View Post
    Looks good
    I have about the same setup BUT I put the 2X6's inside of the supports
    So when I go around a corner and a heavy item tries to escape, The 2X support keeps it in place
    With your design only the screws/nails keep that board (and heavy item) from pushing the boards off the 2X upright
    I can pull them out and turn them the other way, didnt think about that.

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    My girl took down my siders..thought it looked to ghetto..lol

    I had metal headboards..

    Nice setup..you go girl

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    Nice truck and nice setup!!

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    not bad should help you haul quite abit more

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    Either stain them or paint them white then add your scrapping logo, phone # to the top board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
    I can pull them out and turn them the other way, didnt think about that.
    Are the posts just in the bed rail holes?
    In theory >> All you have to do is move the right side to the left
    AND the left side to the right

    Might be easier then swapping the boards from the outside to the inside

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    John, thats what I figured, just move them over. It does make sense and I didn't screw the main rails in, just used some wedging to tighten it all up.

    Focker, they came in handy tonight - I was able to stack 18 stackable chairs behind the window when I'd never be able to do that before! I wont have to offload so quickly now!!

    Mechanic, I thought about that too! At first I wanted to put, ''Yeah, I'm a badass scrapper now!'' LOL!!!

    I'm also thinking about how I could fashion a removable board across the two top rails with a winch attached to it for when I'm alone and come across something too heavy to manually lift myself.

    But, best of all, they were free! Brand new boards I picked up scrapping - they still have the tags on them!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    Either stain them or paint them white then add your scrapping logo, phone # to the top board.
    Then you would need commercial plates

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    i end up replacing mine every other months at first i did them about cab height like yours now i have them about 2 feet over the cab.

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    ^^Yeah, I wasn't sure how high I wanted to actually go and the wood I found was just enough for what it is now, I figure I can always add some more height to it if I need to.

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    wow that looks awesome mine looks always like crap since I use wood I find people throw out or construction site dumps but the frig grate I do use too


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