51 B3B build thread - after all these years

[bkahler]

46 minutes ago, ggdad1951 said:

For FEF I did the stacking method and rolled the truck under my stack and lowered it back down gradually.  You could also use an engine hoist to a similar purpose as your gantry or in combo with your gantry.

 

Stacking like you described is something I've thought about, but I keep coming back to my problem of having enough floor space on the sides for setting up 4 saw horses.  If I could come up with the room, what did you used to support the bed?  The side panels hang down lower than the bottom of the bed floor causing interference with the cross pieces sitting on the saw horses.  Did you place smaller chunks of wood under the bed to raise it up?

 

 

[JBNeal]

How'bout:

• instead of pipe, ya fed nylon ratchet strap through them bed rolls...remove the ratchet, feed the nylon strap through the roll, tape some cardboard onto the strap to prevent chafing, put the ratchet back on, now you've got 2 hooks protruding from the bedside to latch onto
• place 2x4 strategically in between bedsides so that when lifting, the strategically placed 2x4 resists the bedsides from bowing inward...suspend in place with duct tape attached to lifting strap

Is it pretty?  Naw, but it's a one-time tooling use that ya minimize costs with readily available materials that can be disposed of economically. 

 

Duct tape:  the handyman's secret weapon 🏆

[John-T-53]

EMT conduit also good for fabbing stuff out of.... comes in 10 foot sticks.