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.

I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks

TMT

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
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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.

I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks

TMT

Spray on or roll on Herculiner

--
Peter DiVergilio
Most of the money I've wasted was mostly spent trying to impress people who
were never going to like me anyway!

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:47:34 -0400, "Peter DiVergilio"
wrote:


"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
roups.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.

I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks

TMT

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

The first thing I did with my 2003 1T Dodge was to spray a liner in......I
wouldn't go any other way. I have drug some really heavy things in and out
of my truck( like 1T pallets of sandstone ); yes the sprayed in liner is
scratched but it never got through to the bed itself.

Mike

"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
oups.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.

I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks

TMT

I would not worry too much about it. A used pickup with a pristine bead is
not worth much more than the same truck with a scratched bed.

If you want to make the bed look better, buy some vinyl spray that is used
for changing color of vinyl auto upholstery. This is a trick used car
dealers use on used pickups. This is a whole lot cheaper than a bedliner.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.
"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
oups.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.

I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks

TMT

My used Ford pickup came with an aftermarket drop-in bedliner that
worked well but was too slick. Easy to load but things would slide
around once loaded (like a 48" boxblade).
I replaced the liner with a bed mat ($50) which only protects the
flat bed but not the wheel wells. I kept the slick tailgate liner from
the old drop-in, since I usually haul with the tailgate up and did not
want to spend the $ on the matching liner for the tailgate.
I remove the bedmat periodically to clean out accumulated dirt and
leaves. When I get a new truck, the bedmat stays with me, unlike a
spray-in job, though they are very nice.

On 9 Jun 2005 17:55:01 -0700, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:
What does the group suggest for a bed liner that is friendly to our
common interests?

A sheet of plywood on the floor. CDX for work purposes and if you don't
walk barefooted on it. Replace as needed.

-- Teri

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
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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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Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
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| 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.
|
| I look forward to your suggestions and experiences.
|
| Thanks
|
| TMT

I bought an F350 with a "Ford" liner in it. Took it out after awhile to
find a padlock and other small parts under the liner. Between the cross
rails was all wallered out but not dented, like somebody routinely dumped
gravel in the truck from up high. The liner has rubbed the paint down to
bare metal in all sorts of places, some being very visible. I have no tie
downs. Water gets trapped in there. I hate it, but not as much as the bed
being beat up, so it stays in. Can't even replace it with a spray in liner
for all the damage to the bottom.
Don't get a liner, ever!

"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message
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snip------

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 --

The theory I operate on is smart people don't haul heavy objects at the
tailgate, secured, or otherwise. Placed against the cab to begin with,
they are highly unlikely to do such terrible damage.

Harold