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It can be done..I do not like the blue cab ON TOP of the white trucks bed.
The less on/in the cab the lighter. Sharpie mark your doors/hinges position before your loosen them.
What ever you might pic up the cab with, be careful to not bend the drip rail when the weight come on the straps.
A guy with a skid steer and a pallet should be able put it right in there. A small rented u haul open top trailer should hook to your step bumper just fine.
Put it on top of some 4" sch 40 PVC pipe and it should slide up on the trailer easy enough.
I always flop them on their back sides to load / haul. You have a semi-flat surface to work with. It's a tad narrower. And the window angles up so no issues in cracking it. I always use wood between metal to lessen scarring. And I use round 4" wood posts to roll it on. 4" pvc works even better sometimes.
Works much better than trying to move one right side up without some sort of lift.
I can probably get another person to help, but I think I'm going to go the shop-crane route, and load it into my bed, as shown by some of the excellent photos above. This is yet another reason why I bought a long bed - I just didn't realize it then...
Yee Haw! I got it home just like I wanted. We used the seller's engine hoist to lift the cab and move it to the front of the garage bay it was in, and I backed my truck up to it and he raised the hoist and pushed it forward (no pavement outside the garage - bare Earth, and low garage door) until we got edge of the cab somewhat resting on the tailgate. Then he raised it some more so the bottom of the cab was above the wheel house/tubs, and he pushed the hoist and I pulled on the cab from up in the bed, and we got it most of the way in. The cab mount support was resting on the wheel house. So he let the hoist all the way down and we unhooked the chains and straps. Then I think he might've put some boards under it on his end, while I lifted and pulled, and we got it to where the wheel tub was between the cab supports (which are beautiful). Then we simply closed the tailgate, and I drove home. My truck didn't miss a beat the whole way, other than losing speed going up some of the large hills with what I believe is a 240 engine and 2.75:1 gears in the 9". If I kept it above 70-75 MPH, it wouldn't really lose any speed. Round trip was 280 miles.
Nice being way out of the city too. Out in the country, when people get in your way, they realize it and get the heck out of your way. In the city, they never realize it... Out in the country, you see roads with odd-to-a-city slicker names like Tater Ridge, Measley Ridge, Gravel Washer, and Steam Furnace!
The seller is a nice guy (I never got his name) and knows at least as much as me about old cars and trucks. He even had a 4-53 Detroit sitting in the shop! Said he had some V8 Pintos back in the old days. Good people you meet when buying Ford parts!
The cab has some bad surface rust, but other than that is near mint! Especially compared to mine. There is a tiny bit of serious rot on the pinch weld around the back window, and there are three screwdriver bit sized holes in the driver's floor pan. Few small dents and dings too, but nothing bad. Also set up for AC and a cargo lamp, which doesn't bother me much at all. It is even the same color as mine, except for silver two-tone.
So without further ado, here are some more pics for your collection, Rich!
This show the clearance between the back of the cab and the bed. I think the back might've been resting on the wheelhouse, but the front definitely was not. That is the back of the cab at the bottom of the pic, with my wheelhouse in the center, and the top of my bed side at the top:
08-29-2017, 11:16 AM
