transport of 16 foot 4x4's with stationwagon?

OK, I have a pickup with a 6' bed. How do I carry 16' lumber on it?

Build a rack for the truck.

The reason you ask that question makes me wonder why people even buy short-bed pickups instead of the real thing. If you're gonna drive a pickup, why not get a long-bed one in the first place?

On 1/16/2012 1:15 PM, snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: ...

Same way as the guy w/ the station wagon--hook up the trailer.

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so it'll fit in the garage?

Why do you piddle around buying a full-size pick-up when you very well might run into the need for a flat-bed dually?

With my ranger 6' bed truck, I have 12" clearance from axle to ground and the truck is 15' long. I'd try the suggestion earlier to hang it from the front and back bumpers _under_ the truck. The posited 4x4 would still leave

I do carry 10 - 12' boards in the 6' bed regularly - most recently some figured

scott

You need a "ladder rack" to carry 16 footers - or a loop of rope on each bumper.

stick them in the bed, then buy enough bags of sacrete to hold the front of them down. You'll use the sacrete some other time if not while putting these 4x4's in the ground. Don't forget the red rag on the end of the timbers.

Remember - a 6 foot box plus a tailgate is pretty close to 8 feet - so it doesn't take a LOT of weight to keep the front down..

I still like a ladder rack on a P'up for the job, though.

Nah, just tie it up all vertical-like and duck for bridges.

-- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. --Duke Ellington

With only six feet in and a whopping ten feet hanging out, cops would pull him over in a heartbeat around here, probably for the broken wood in the street a block back, if nothing else.

-- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. --Duke Ellington

Put a skate board on the end instead of a flag and call it a trailer.

Macho only. Built rust tough.

The reason you ask that question makes me wonder why people even buy short-bed pickups instead of the real thing. If you're gonna drive a pickup, why not get a long-bed one in the first place?

Just Wondering wrote the following:

Yeah, that extra 2 feet in an 8' bed will handle those 16 footers.

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wrote the following:

What is a bumper? Is it hidden under all the plastic?

I prefer a unicycle, with the proper caster set.

-- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. --Duke Ellington

willshak wrote in news:sOqdnV6c1M8p6YjSnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@supernews.com:

It used to be the part on the vehicle designed to allow it to bump into things, but now it's the first part to crumple in an impact.

Puckdropper

YOUR cops have a heartbeat?