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Headache Rack Mounting

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by jb616, Feb 19, 2012.

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  1. Feb 24, 2012 #41
    Logan76

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    No crap brotha, being a construction company I figure they'll haul all kinds of junk that will beat up that nice new pretty aluminum step.
     
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  3. Feb 24, 2012 #42
    kajidono

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    Heh, anything that fits on it and a few things that don't.
     
    kajidono, Feb 24, 2012
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  4. Feb 24, 2012 #43
    dieselgrl

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    Oh God we think the same. I had a driver ask me "wow, look at all the FLATBEDS, what do all you haul on them there FLATbeds???" Me: "Freight" :biggrin_2554:
     
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  5. Feb 24, 2012 #44
    Logan76

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    buncha smartasses... ;)
     
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  7. Feb 24, 2012 #45
    jb616

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    lol you guys are good.

    Logan, we haul anything from 1500' spools of steel cable, corrugated steel decking pans, steel members, 5'x5' bins filled with steel cable chokers, chains, snatch blocks, various rigging equipment, etc., skid steers, our telehandler, anything else we could ever use. nothing is of major size.

    we have other pieces of equipment that have pintle hitches so thats what took the delay of me getting the truck since the pintle had to get installed as an extra.
     
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  8. Feb 25, 2012 #46
    Logan76

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    That's smart having a pintle hitch installed so that you can pull those smaller trailers around also, my buddy has one on his daycab and it comes in handy alot.
     
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  9. Feb 26, 2012 #47
    Kittyfoot

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    An "old school fix" concerning rotators and light bars:

    Back in the day I had a problem with lightbars drawing so much continuous power that they tended to burn out/melt the little dash on/off switches. Fixed it by wiring them up like you do with aircraft landing lights (draw a helluva lot of power). Rigged up a relay switch in the hot wire to the light and used the dash switch to trip the relay on/off. Same way your starter/ignition switch works.

    Might be overkill on today's LED stuff, but cheap insurance against having a switch/wires burning in your dash.
     
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  10. Feb 27, 2012 #48
    jb616

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    rack is going on tomorrow. i will take some pictures. still have to figure out a bracket for the light bar .
     
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  11. Mar 9, 2012 #49
    jb616

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    finally got the pictures into my computer. have some pictures of the rack, mounting kit and one with it on the truck. pretty easy install. now i have to figure out how to get the light bar mounted.

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  12. Mar 11, 2012 #50
    Gambi80

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    Looks sharp! Maybe find some mudflaps to go between the chains and the rack so you don't get that soda can full of change sound all day...
     
    Gambi80, Mar 11, 2012
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