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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on March 24, 2021, 09:22:39 AM
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I don't know how well it will end up working, but I thought this was an interesting concept: A pickup where the bed unfolds into a flatbed. That seems like a really useable idea for a working truck. A lot of the actual ranchers around here like driving flatbeds for hauling hay and whatnot, but they're then limited for hauling stuff you might scoop into a pickup bed. I bet they would like something like this.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/gms-newest-pickup-costs-9000
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Neat
$9,000? The US version would probably be north of $30,000
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$9,000? The US version would probably be north of $30,000
Yeah, that's cheaper than most UTVs in the US. Of course it appears to put out 99HP. :)
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Just get a Unimog. It is even more betterer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AJO5NfAEk
Skip to 17:30 to see the features of the bed.
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Yeah, that's cheaper than most UTVs in the US. Of course it appears to put out 99HP. :)
For it's intended purpose 99hp with the right transmission should be fine.
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If we wanted more government I would propose a registration for a rural use truck. No urban areas, no interstate. But also no crash standards, sensible emissions, no power anything and cheaper than a utv.
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Just get a Unimog. It is even more betterer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AJO5NfAEk
Skip to 17:30 to see the features of the bed.
That would be a blast around here if it were 1/10th the price. :laugh:
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A lot of the actual ranchers around here like driving flatbeds for hauling hay and whatnot, but they're then limited for hauling stuff you might scoop into a pickup bed.
I assumed it was for ease using a goose stock trailer and least that is why the cattle guys have them here. A regular bed would get crushed by a jack knifing a trailer into a tight spot.
(https://www.bigtextrailerworld.com/bttw/assets/hero/livestock-trailers.jpg)
Also there are manufactured flatbeds for pickups that have side rails that drop/fold down.
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I assumed it was for ease using a goose stock trailer and least that is why the cattle guys have them here. A regular bed would get crushed my a jack knifing a trailer into a tight spot.
(https://www.bigtextrailerworld.com/bttw/assets/hero/livestock-trailers.jpg)
Also there are manufactured flatbeds for pickups that have side rails that drop/fold down.
I guess that too. =D
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I assumed it was for ease using a goose stock trailer and least that is why the cattle guys have them here. A regular bed would get crushed by a jack knifing a trailer into a tight spot.
(https://www.bigtextrailerworld.com/bttw/assets/hero/livestock-trailers.jpg)
Also there are manufactured flatbeds for pickups that have side rails that drop/fold down.
Speaking of which, have any o' y'all priced chassis cabs, new or used? Once you add in a bed, I'm guessing you wouldn't save much over just buying a pick-up, right? Or can you really cheap out on the bed? Like get one from a junked F-150, or an old flat-bed truck?
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Speaking of which, have any o' y'all priced chassis cabs, new or used? Once you add in a bed, I'm guessing you wouldn't save much over just buying a pick-up, right? Or can you really cheap out on the bed? Like get one from a junked F-150, or an old flat-bed truck?
There is a factory that builds fiberglass truck bodies in one of the towns I drive through for work. It appears that pickups (1/2, 3/4, 1 ton) are purchased new with beds intact, because I see one lot of intact trucks in one lot and in the other lot there is trucks with fiberglass rear bodies, like tool boxes. There is a organized stack of new truck beds in another location.
Stellar Crane and IMT are also in another town I drive through, both of them builds and installs cranes on bigger trucks, they tend to get new trucks that are cab/chassis only. I'm talking 1 ton and bigger pickups. The big trucks naturally are cab/chassis from the factory so they can be customized for the customer.
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A 1.5 liter 4 cylinder with only 99 HP?
FUGEDABOTIT !!