Pickup Flatbed Slides Backward For Loading

Pickup Flatbed Slides Backward For Loading PICKUPS Miscellaneous 20-1-11 Here's a nifty way to load and unload ATV's, garden tractors, snowmobiles, etc., on pickups - a sliding flatbed. "I took a 1970 1/2-ton International 4-WD pickup and lengthened the frame 1 1/ 2 ft," says Dale Fisher, Moses Lake, Wash. "I built a sub-frame out of 3-in. channel iron and mounted an 11 1/2 by 7 1/2-ft. bed on top of it. Then I made another sub-frame, also out of 3-in. channel, to slide inside the first. I used rollers from a Hesston swather reel between the channel iron as guides so the frames don't bind on each other when they slide. I put teflon strips on the flange of the channel iron so the frames slide smoothly. "I made a 5-ft. (2-in. dia.) cylinder to push the bed back 5 ft. I use two smaller cylinders off a cab-over Freightliner to raise and lower the bed. I use a small Vickers hydraulic pump with electric clutch to run the hydraulics, and I put a joy stick on the two valves. Controls are on the right-hand side below the bed." To load up, Fisher simply slides the bed back 5 ft. and raises it to a 22? angle. He can raise the bed up to a 45? angle for unloading, if needed. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dale Fisher, 4227 Valley Road, Moses Lake, Wash. 98837 (ph 509 765-3990).

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