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[348tripower]

Here ya go  

[Charlie Chops 1940]

Pretty cool Don. Nice job, very well proportioned.

Charlie

[58 Yeoman]

Lookin' good.

[jaybee]

SaWeet!  That's really coming together, can't wait to see what's next.

[chimp koose]

That is one sweet truck.

[rumrumm]

That would look great in my driveway. Nice work, Don!

[sirstude]

Just flat COOL !

Doug

[348tripower]

Thanks gang.    I am working on the box sides now. Being almost 12 feet long ther is a lot of real estate to sand. Hope to have the box on in two weeks.
Don

[Carnut]

Yep, just got to agree with the Way Cool and very well proportioned as well as appropriate stance. Awesome work designing and putting it all together as it is.

[wayne petty]

i was just enjoying the pics...  was thinking about the LONG box...

had a slightly different idea...  but the box is done...

think of a butcher block flat bed...

with the top flat... but the bottom structurally shaped so it would take some serious band saw or table saw time...    everything bolted together.. and carefully plugged to make it invisible...

probably be easier to dovetail in the cross pattern blocks...


just a thought....   anybody want some drawings.. just PM me.. remind me of the butcher block flat bed..

[butch27]

WOW!

[Digger]

Nice work man  :!:  :!:

[348tripower]

i was just enjoying the pics...  was thinking about the LONG box...

had a slightly different idea...  but the box is done...

think of a butcher block flat bed...

with the top flat... but the bottom structurally shaped so it would take some serious band saw or table saw time...    everything bolted together.. and carefully plugged to make it invisible...

probably be easier to dovetail in the cross pattern blocks...


just a thought....   anybody want some drawings.. just PM me.. remind me of the butcher block flat bed..

Wayne,
I wonder what it would weigh?  If you haven't seen the previous pictures of the build, I have a rolled pan made for the box with 65 Ford custom taillights frenched in.  Lenses from Enjenjo.  This whole build has been spontaneous. No plan here I just let the parts fall together.    I like your idea and I would like to see someone do it.  I stayed away from the car hauler and flatbed and this is what I ended up with.
Don

[GPster]

i was just enjoying the pics...  was thinking about the LONG box...

had a slightly different idea...  but the box is done...

think of a butcher block flat bed...

with the top flat... but the bottom structurally shaped so it would take some serious band saw or table saw time...    everything bolted together.. and carefully plugged to make it invisible...

probably be easier to dovetail in the cross pattern blocks...


just a thought....   anybody want some drawings.. just PM me.. remind me of the butcher block flat bed..

Wayne,
I wonder what it would weigh?  If you haven't seen the previous pictures of the build, I have a rolled pan made for the box with 65 Ford custom taillights frenched in.  Lenses from Enjenjo.  This whole build has been spontaneous. No plan here I just let the parts fall together.    I like your idea and I would like to see someone do it.  I stayed away from the car hauler and flatbed and this is what I ended up with.
Don

Or find some place that is tearing down a bowling alley and get a length of the lane. GPster

[wayne petty]

just a quick drawing ... the angles are wrong.. but dovetailing in the dark sections allows one to use reduced dark material...

this would probably be really expensive and heavy the way i drew it...

but .. its just a thought... and reductions in mass are possible.

the straight bottom sections are few...   the extended bottoms support the weight against the frame..

for some strange reason.. the dovetails came out different sizes..   the angles are wrong. this is a rough idea...

the holes are for long bolts that pass through the bed... open at the front for tension adjustments..    carefully plugged at the rear to match the grain.

figuring the exact amount of offset allows all the planks to be lined up side by side offsetting every other one for cutting them perfectly..  probably using a circle saw guide rail...    or a big router....