My wife saw a device in a garden catalogue called the Load Handler which is
supposed to turn your pickup truck into a dump truck. Essentially, it is a
tough sheet of fabric which you put down in your truck bed and dump your
load of mulch, gravel, whatever on top of it. To unload, you drop the
tailgate and turn a crank which rolls the sheet to the back of the truck,
pulling the load along with it.

For $150, it seems too good to really work as advertised. I wondered if
anyone has tried one of these and how you liked it. Details can be found at

http://www.loadhandler.com/

I just posted their website for general information; I'm not affiliated with
the Load Handler people, just thinking of buying one if they really work.

Paul

On Feb 1, 7:01 am, "Pavel314" wrote:
My wife saw a device in a garden catalogue called the Load Handler which is
supposed to turn your pickup truck into a dump truck. Essentially, it is a
tough sheet of fabric which you put down in your truck bed and dump your
load of mulch, gravel, whatever on top of it. To unload, you drop the
tailgate and turn a crank which rolls the sheet to the back of the truck,
pulling the load along with it.

For $150, it seems too good to really work as advertised. I wondered if
anyone has tried one of these and how you liked it. Details can be found at

http://www.loadhandler.com/

I just posted their website for general information; I'm not affiliated with
the Load Handler people, just thinking of buying one if they really work.

I was surprised to see that epinions.com and nextag.com didn't have a
single review for the Loadhandler. I've seen it advertised for long
enough! Here's some reviews on Cabela's web site. I figure if
Cabela's carries it it has to be pretty good. The reviews seem to
agree.
http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0045293522111a.shtml

R

Pavel314 wrote:
My wife saw a device in a garden catalogue called the Load Handler which is
supposed to turn your pickup truck into a dump truck. Essentially, it is a
tough sheet of fabric which you put down in your truck bed and dump your
load of mulch, gravel, whatever on top of it. To unload, you drop the
tailgate and turn a crank which rolls the sheet to the back of the truck,
pulling the load along with it.

For $150, it seems too good to really work as advertised. I wondered if
anyone has tried one of these and how you liked it. Details can be found at

http://www.loadhandler.com/

I just posted their website for general information; I'm not affiliated with
the Load Handler people, just thinking of buying one if they really work.

Paul



I got 10 of these at a warehouse sale for 10 bucks each. I sold 5 of
them and kept the others, so I have used them quite a bit. They are
pretty good for what they do. Do NOT put a couple of yards of gravel or
road base on them and expect to be able to just crank the stuff out of
your truck! But if you do put a couple of yards of stuff on there, you
can shovel out most of it, then crank out the remaining with ease.

If you are moving, you can fairly easily crank out the boxes so that you
don't have to get up in the bed to get the farthest ones or reach over
the side. Point loads (chairs, refrigerators) tend to put holes in the
fabric and make it hard to move. Distributed loads (boxes, mulch,
dirt)are fairly easy to handle. The thing won't move a ton of material
for you though. It will easily move 500 pounds.

They have lasted pretty well with very heavy use. The fabric gets torn
up after a while and when it gets the right number of preforations and
you try to pull too much weight, its done. So, as they age, you have to
lessen the load that they are working with. (If you could sew up the
holes, it would probably last for a few years. I haven't looked into
this because I still have 2 unused ones.)

I wouldn't have bought one new, but with the good deal that I found, I
have to say that I like them. They are easy to install and remove, not
so easy to store, but not that hard. I wish it were easier to carry
around in the truck, for those times that you get an unexpected load,
but that is life.

One pointer; If there is a good distance between the tailgate and the
load and the load is heavy, when you crank on the handle the tailgate
will have a tendency to rise up and try to close. I put a couple of
2x4s cut the correct length at an angle and wedged into place to keep
the tailgate flat.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

Pavel314 wrote:
My wife saw a device in a garden catalogue called the Load Handler
which is supposed to turn your pickup truck into a dump truck.
Essentially, it is a tough sheet of fabric which you put down in your
truck bed and dump your load of mulch, gravel, whatever on top of it.
To unload, you drop the tailgate and turn a crank which rolls the
sheet to the back of the truck, pulling the load along with it.

For $150, it seems too good to really work as advertised. I wondered
if anyone has tried one of these and how you liked it. Details can be
found at
http://www.loadhandler.com/

I just posted their website for general information; I'm not
affiliated with the Load Handler people, just thinking of buying one
if they really work.

$129 here
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=91872

$60+ here
http://search.ebay.com/search/search... er&category0=

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:01:05 -0500, "Pavel314"
wrote:

My wife saw a device in a garden catalogue called the Load Handler which is
supposed to turn your pickup truck into a dump truck. Essentially, it is a
tough sheet of fabric which you put down in your truck bed and dump your
load of mulch, gravel, whatever on top of it. To unload, you drop the
tailgate and turn a crank which rolls the sheet to the back of the truck,
pulling the load along with it.

For $150, it seems too good to really work as advertised. I wondered if
anyone has tried one of these and how you liked it. Details can be found at

http://www.loadhandler.com/

I just posted their website for general information; I'm not affiliated with
the Load Handler people, just thinking of buying one if they really work.

Paul

Have one for my Ranger. I've used it for mulch, pea gravel, and sand.
As other posters said, it probably won't move a ton, but it moves
anything I can safely load in the Ranger. Ditto the comments about
the tailgate lifting.

It's easy to put on and take off.

Only one complaint, and it's not the load handler's issue. Since on
the Ranger part of the wheel wells are in the bed, the loadhandler
belt is narrower than the wide parts of the bed. It will pull out the
center of the load, but not the sides next to the wheel humps. Not a
big deal. On a pickup with no wheel humps in the bed it won't be an
issue.

Paul F.