Do You Use Your Bed Extender?
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Do You Use Your Bed Extender?
I'm waiting for my SCrew with 5.5 box and looking around at bed extenders. I'm coming from a SCab 6.5 box, which has always been plenty of room (no problem leaving the tailgate closed and letting boards stick out back). Anyway, I'm a little concerned with losing a foot of bed length so I'm looking at the Ford extender. If you have one, how much do you use it? It's still not enough room to lay an 8' board flat, which has me wondering if it's worth the bother.
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From: Hattiesburg, Ms.
Had them in my last two trucks, the only time it was used I had it flipped TOWARDS the cab to keep coolers or whatever between it and the tailgate. I took it out of my F250 about 6 mos after purchasing, was just in the way most of the time. I never used it as it was intended. Personally, I wouldn't opt for another one.
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Cargo Master
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I use mine a lot...not as a bed extender but to keep my cargo from sliding to the front of the bed.
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I have an ancient John Deere diesel and at certain times of the year I need to haul in dyed diesel for it in 5 gallon fuel cans. The extender makes it super easy to bungee the cans to it to keep them from falling over. And when I get them home I don't have to climb in the back of the bed to retrieve them.
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Same here.
I have an ancient John Deere diesel and at certain times of the year I need to haul in dyed diesel for it in 5 gallon fuel cans. The extender makes it super easy to bungee the cans to it to keep them from falling over. And when I get them home I don't have to climb in the back of the bed to retrieve them.
I have an ancient John Deere diesel and at certain times of the year I need to haul in dyed diesel for it in 5 gallon fuel cans. The extender makes it super easy to bungee the cans to it to keep them from falling over. And when I get them home I don't have to climb in the back of the bed to retrieve them.
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I've found mine to be VERY useful with my 5'5" bed. From holding my 4 wheeler and riding items in or loads of tires/wheels..ect Also works great flipped forward for a trip to Sam's club or Costco. I really like the design of the plastic unit instead of the metal one piece that they used to use in the SuperCrew and Sport Trac trucks.
