A "dove tail"

Like my flat bed... I just drive my truck on there when I blow up or break down...

 

Dove tail. Couldn't think of the name, but yea. One of those.

 

looks like an awesome project!

 

Here's the spreading out of tools to begin....



I cut out a couple of pieces of C channel to fill in the gaps and welded them in... ( later I filled in the diamond plate gaps too )



To increase the strength of the ramps I decided to use only one, cut to half length and beefed it up with 1/8" wall box sections on both sides....



Lots of welds on both sides....



A couple of pieces heavy duty angle iron to hook on to the bed...



Welded on a couple of pieces of flat plate at approx 45% for the ramps to catch on...



Finishing out it's supports... (These were later trimmed flush with the pieces of flat plate...



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Ramps worked great for loading the Jeep! They will sit in the pocket at any angle making up for differences in ground and as the bed gets lower with load...

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looks awesome. You should throw up a pic of the jeep on it.

 

Very good idea with the ramps. Looks great. would love to see the final product with the jeep on there.

 

I took the Jeep out last weekend and didn't get any pictures. Will have to get some next time it's up on there.

 

How does that thing ride with jeep loaded?

I'm thinking it has to be very light up front with the stock wheelbase and 5 more ft hanging off the rear end... Also, the GVWR for my cab-chassis truck (F350 in sig) is 12,500lbs and my rig weighs 9k before I fill my 200gal aux fuel tank. I just rolled over the scales at just under 15k LOADED with 5ver in tow (another 9k on trailer axles). This would be similar weight as your jeep I'd guess, except most of this weight was forward of the rear axle. Maybe the back-end of jeep is really light?

I've considered building a ramp up over the headache rack so I could put my 'yota crawler on 9ft flatbed and still be able to tow a TT, but my junk weighs 3500lbs on a light day!!

 

It rides surprisingly well. Probably better than unloaded. I get the Jeep as far forward as possible so the weight of the engine, winch and heavy part of the frame is all up there, more evenly distributing the weight between the truck's axles.
The back end of the jeep is relatively light. With the Jeep turned around, the weight would be all over the back wheels and the truck would probably be pretty light in the front.
I have no idea what I weigh loaded up but I'm sure it's a lot. Still, it pulled up the hill to Big Bear with no problems at all and the temp gauge stayed well below half even on the longest grades.
I have to be sure that the axle straps are on tight because if the Jeep starts to rock back and forth at all then the ride gets weird. I can tell if the Jeep rocks side to side on it's suspension, that's a lot of weight far up.

 

Very unique solution to your problem. That rig should be VERY easy to fit in anywhere you want it to even with the Jeep loaded on there. Make sure you weld some good tie down points onto that flatbed somewhere.

 

I'll post some pictures of the 11,000lb /ea tiedowns when I can at the end of the month. I bolted them through the front plate which is a huge piece of structural C, and through the top of the c channel that forms the back of the bed using grade 8 hardware.

 

A lil thought, Weld some iron to where the sides of the tires are. So if you get on a pitch or go around a corner a weeeee to fast it does not slide off the side of the bed of the truck. Just an idea is all. Cant wait to see the pictures up of the Jeep the back of that thing!

Is that what you would call a true toy hauler?

 

hard to tell by the pictures but it looks like your going to have too much *** end weight on the truck...need a little longer wheel base or another set of ramps to get the nose of the jeep over the cab of the truck..off to very good start though...nice job..

 

I think i would have made pockets for the wheels of the 4x4 to sit down in when on the deck to lower the 4x4 for hauling, less windage. JMO

It does look like nice work though!

 

With the Jeep nose forward it is pretty well balanced. The back end of the Jeep is pretty light and even the front isn't overly heavy with the Alum engine trans and xfer case. Nose backwards, it would probably start getting back heavy. As it is, it drives great, can't hardly tell it's there.