If you got battery die grinder then just cut into the side of each nut and they will come off ez.

But like with a torch you have to worry about a fire and if not water handy is not a good thing Right!!

As, I remember with the rear bumper off was easy access to the rear bolts and better yet with out the tailgate in place so you can see them.

The main thing is to do all safely.
Orich

sawzall works well to , just put the blade in the middle and zip done .

You are all forgetting the helicopter to fly it home after its cut loose.......

Dreamer we are still old skool here. You must have landed in the wrong thread or you've been out in the sun to long:-X19.

Orich

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA :-missingt :-missingt :-missingt :-missingt :-X14 :-X14 :-X14 :-X14 :-drink

No helicopters. Just my wife's Jeep and trailer. I'll bring my Makita cordless right angle grinder and saws-all from work. My torches are too big to bring with me. I do have a torch for copper pipe sweating. I'll bring a good assortment of hand tools.

Experience says: a cutting torch. Usually at least one bolt just spins and since they're carriage bolts and you can't put a wrench on it, a cutting torch is needed for that one. Might as well just take the cutting torch and cut all the bolts off underneath.

Thanks for the help. I got the bed today. Back bolts came off easy. The 4 carriage bolts were rusted. Cut them off with my 4-1/2" grinder and cut off discs. They had a torch but I couldn't get it to work. It was like the gases were backwards but there were right and left hand threads and no way to reverse them. Backed my trailer up to the trailer with the truck on it and the 5 of us lifted it onto my trailer upside down. It's a little rougher than I wanted but the price was right and I can measure and cut the truck's frame now.

Glad it came off fairly easy for you. Sounds like a lot of people have fought with those carriage bolts.

Glad you got it without too mush issue.

That is a well trained puppy you got there sky Cowboy!