On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:16:04 -0400,
wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:47:34 -0400, "Peter DiVergilio"
wrote:
"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
groups.com...

Currently I use an old Ford pickup for my machine hauling. While I
treat it well, it has seen its share of service and the bed is well
scratched and has its share of dents. Kinda like its owner. :)

One of these days this love affair with the faithful truck will end.
After suitable mourning of course, the new replacement pickup with a
unscratched bed will be purchased. What does the group suggest for a
bed liner that is friendly to our common interests? While I don't move
machinery for a living, I do bring home my share of orphaned tools that
need a good home. Add in the metal stock, lumber and other supplies
that a shop uses and the pickup is used on a regular basis.

Spray on or roll on Herculiner

Over a 3/16" steel plate inner box. The Herculiner won't stop the
dents!!

I've actually seen this done. A local auto wrecker made an inner box
with "wings" to protect the top of the box sides. He used shiny
(stainless) checkerplate for the sides/top

That guy has the right idea - most any "shop truck" is driven by
people who literally don't give a **** about it. If they wreck your
truck, the worst thing you can do is fire them.

Even if you are the sole operator, bad things happen way too easily
when you carry very heavy chunks of metal around. I would at least
put a cab protection bar and a screen over the back window to keep
stuff from going over the bed edge and coming at you through the
glass, better would be the plate steel bed liner with a heavy front
edge to help protect the cab.

I've seen pickups that had engine blocks in an non reinforced bed
during a wreck, and there is NO WAY to secure an engine block against
those kinds of forces without some serious reinforcement. I have seen
the front rail of the bed and the back wall of the cab bent in to
where they darned near touched the dashboard...

Obviously the cab is toast, the bed is toast, the truck is totaled.
And if someone was sitting in the middle of the bench seat, they'd be
in a world of hurt, too.

-- Bruce --
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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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