Bed Mat Recommendation Wanted
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Bed Mat Recommendation Wanted
I want to put a bed mat into my 66 Styleside long bed. I understand this will need to be a DIY project, since apparently, no one produces liners for our trucks. I don’t want to piece something together, and I do not want wood or rubber, which means plastic. And I prefer it not look like it was cobbled together out behind the single-wide.
Does anyone know something I can use that would be around 1/4” or more thick? I need a floor that will allow things to slide in fairly easy, not too sticky, full bed dimensions (cut to size). If I head over to my local plastics supply house, Tap Plastics, I fear they’ll want my first born son plus another high draft pick. Any ideas?
Does anyone know something I can use that would be around 1/4” or more thick? I need a floor that will allow things to slide in fairly easy, not too sticky, full bed dimensions (cut to size). If I head over to my local plastics supply house, Tap Plastics, I fear they’ll want my first born son plus another high draft pick. Any ideas?
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I’m pretty sure those stall mats are rubber. If they weren’t, horses would not be able to stand when wet.
I can’t use rubber, won’t allow items to easily slide.
I can’t use rubber, won’t allow items to easily slide.
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66merc,thanks. I called the afore mentioned supplier. Google said “puckboard”:is made of HDPE. The manI spoke with quoted me just under 400.00, plus tax, for a sheet of it 54” x 96”. I can have a sheet of it from an online plastic supplier for 54.99 plus 170.00 shipping. That’s much better, may have to go with them.
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Too ghetto for me, bro. Want a finished look . . .
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.
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I read your first post twice and I think that the attributes you desire for your bed are perfectly embodied in the original steel floor that is already there. Unless of course it has big holes rusted in it and all the stuff sliding around back there is going to fall out on the road.
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Cropduster, the original metal bed, even in perfect shape (mine’s not, but no holes) is still not slick enough for what I need. I want to give the totes, coolers, fridge/freezer, soda cases, etc. a decent shove and send them easily forward. And, on occasion, my wife has to do a significant amount of the loading/unloading. Going to order a sheet of that “puck board”, perhaps through Grainger, if they have it. I’ll use a jigsaw for a clean cut.
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Too ghetto for me, bro. Want a finished look . . .
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.
WOW!!!! Last time I make a suggestion to you. No wonder why we dislike Californians in Montana
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“No wonder why we dislike Californians in Montana”
Alrighty, then!
Gotta say, When I laid out the parameters of what I was looking for, I knew full well the low buck boys would show up anyway, suggesting the most- ahem - “economical” of solutions, cause that’s what you do in the country sometimes. Look, I want it to look nice, and function nice, nothing wrong with that.
Though not originally from California, many of my fellow Californians sure enjoy buying up your beautiful rural land, there in Montana - just cause we can!
53, the bed , when loaded has almost no room for things to slide. But a slippery surface sure makes it easy to load and unload.
Alrighty, then!
Gotta say, When I laid out the parameters of what I was looking for, I knew full well the low buck boys would show up anyway, suggesting the most- ahem - “economical” of solutions, cause that’s what you do in the country sometimes. Look, I want it to look nice, and function nice, nothing wrong with that.
Though not originally from California, many of my fellow Californians sure enjoy buying up your beautiful rural land, there in Montana - just cause we can!
53, the bed , when loaded has almost no room for things to slide. But a slippery surface sure makes it easy to load and unload.
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Too ghetto for me, bro. Want a finished look . . .
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.
Some of the things they do “in the country” or below the Mason-Dixon line - well, let’s just say, it’s not for me. I can appreciate ingenuity, frugality, etc., but honestly, sometimes I’m plain embarrassed for “y’all”. Brings to mind the Red Green show. And I’m a rural kind of guy myself.