Wooden Beds?
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Wooden Beds?
Hello to all,
Really like the wood beds in the F100s.
But, I am curious about wooden beds? Is wood in step side beds only? If not, could a wood bed be in a 65 short bed fleetside?
What years had the wood bed?
thanks,
Paul
Really like the wood beds in the F100s.
But, I am curious about wooden beds? Is wood in step side beds only? If not, could a wood bed be in a 65 short bed fleetside?
What years had the wood bed?
thanks,
Paul
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Seen several aftermarket style wood beds in Styleside trucks; biggest challenge in my opinion is the fender well area.
I will be placing a composite type decking floor in my 64 Styleside ; once I get the time to finished my resto of the whole truck.
I will be placing a composite type decking floor in my 64 Styleside ; once I get the time to finished my resto of the whole truck.
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I have also thought about a wood floor , but maybe a piece of 3/4" oak veneer plywood with the skid strips countersunk every 6" apart. I've always used a piece of plywood for a bed protector anyway for hauling lumber.
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I spoke with Mar-k a while back and they said they could do it. I have seriously considered it for my truck. The weight savings over metal floor would be HUGE!
I am hoping for under 3600lbs complete truck and that may be the only way for me to do it.
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I put one of these kits in a friends 67 Chevy and it was a great kit. Excellent fit and workmanship. (12yrs ago though now)
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another but I know nothing about this company...
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I like them too
The bed-on-a-bed is nice if you don't mind hauling it around. I'm getting ready to deep-six my old plywood bed. I will be redoing mine in Ash which is very light colored hardwood. I already have: the boards, big bolts, strips, stain and spar urethane, but still need to buy some big bags of shiny hardware to put it all together. I'm slow so I hope to have it in by summer. 
I will post some pictures when it's finished.
Here's a picture of a 1953 F100 bed done in black walnut: 1953 Ford F100 Walnut Wooden Planks Photo 7.
I will post some pictures when it's finished.Here's a picture of a 1953 F100 bed done in black walnut: 1953 Ford F100 Walnut Wooden Planks Photo 7.
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I like the way the wood beds look but I've got to think that it's going to be problematic installing any kind of wood on top of a metal bed. There's no way that you won't trap moisture and in my experience wood or metal that stays wet is going to deteriorate even if the metal is treated with rust inhibitor and you use a rot resistive wood. I've had teak rot on my boat when it was allowed to trap moisture and I've heard that you can even have "swelling" problems with the synthetic wood products since they contain a certain percentage of wood filler products, if you use pressure treated lumber it will also twist and eventually rot if left in a moist environment. I would think that the only way to do this and keep everything from deteriorating is to remove the bottom of the metal bed and screw the wood planks directly to the bed frame but I was wondering if that would affect the structural integrity of the sides of the bed since it's all welded together, let me know if anyone has had experience with this type of installation and what worked best.
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Check out this gallery link for one of our own FTE guys with an awsome bed.
1966 Ford F100 4x2 - 1966
1966 Ford F100 4x2 - 1966
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I watched the video and they have designed the bed-on-a-bed to be more or less, easily uninstalled when it's time to make a dump run. That's good because I suppose you would periodically need to take it out just to dry everything out anyway.
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