ramp for pickup truck..

Toby Rider · Post by **Toby Rider** » 19 Feb 2005 8:17 pm

Do any of y'all have a good, inexpensive ramp for the bed of a pickup truck that you'd like to recommend. Something that'll make it easy to roll my amp into the bed without having to lift it? Preferably something that folds up.

If not, I may just build one out of lumber. Thanks.

Tom Campbell · Post by **Tom Campbell** » 19 Feb 2005 8:38 pm

Toby,

I have been using two motor cycle ramps. I haul two amps and other equipment in my pickup. Works great with two-wheeler luggage carts. You can purchase them at most motor cycle shops.

Toby Rider · Post by **Toby Rider** » 19 Feb 2005 8:47 pm

Thanks. Are they big bucks?

Tom Olson · Post by **Tom Olson** » 22 Feb 2005 12:36 pm

Another alternative would be to obtain an appliance dolly (like movers use to move refridgerators).

You can strap the amp to the dolly (or even attach the amp and dolly in a more permanent fashion).

This type of dolly has long handles so it makes moving heavy loads a breeze. Plus, it enables you to stand on the pickup bed and the tail gate, gab the top of the handles and pull the dolly w/amp into the truck bed relatively easily.

Most of these dolly's have delrin-type slides on the back of the handles (which are straight all the way up) so you won't damage the truck bed.

Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 28 Feb 2005 12:30 pm

Now here's a question I can sink my teeth into. I'm on my second pickup truck, and have wondered what kind of ramp would work, but the biggest problem is that the Leer cap I have is too short for the Magliner to make it in there when loaded down with a steel, spkr cabinet, seat, gtr amp and gtr. Plus parking in NYC sometimes there's barely enough room for just me to fit inbetween the cars let alone a fancy moving ramp. Other thing is that my F-250 came with a pretty big lift, so the bed is about the height of my elbows...

I haven't given up hope though maybe there's a ramp out there somewhere for me.

Toby Rider · Post by **Toby Rider** » 28 Feb 2005 12:45 pm

You have an F-150 in New York City? Unbelievable.. They don't even have a country music radio station in New York City.

Tom Olson · Post by **Tom Olson** » 6 Mar 2005 2:47 pm

F250 not F150.

Larry Clark · Post by **Larry Clark** » 7 Mar 2005 4:53 pm

They have variety of different bed ramps at:
www.harborfreight.com

Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 10 Mar 2005 7:38 am

Dear Toby,

You'd be surprised at how many pickups there are in New York, mine is just about the only one used to haul psgs around, though. What you do see is a staggering/frightening number of are those dang Expeditions and Navigators, couldn't even put a 2X4 in one of those fool things.

It's true we have no country radio here in New York, but there are some great country/roots type shows left of the dial on the weekends.

Lawrence Lupkin · Post by **Lawrence Lupkin** » 10 Mar 2005 1:26 pm

My '95 full sized Bronco is really just a pick-up with a cap. Does that count?

It carries steel, but unfortunately not as often as Gerald's.

Lawrence Sullivan · Post by **Lawrence Sullivan** » 10 Mar 2005 5:30 pm

You might check out the various lifts and ramps available at medical supply stores as they have various ramps and lifts for wheel chairs and scooters to be lifted or put into vans and pickups They have a neat electric lift to put power wheel chirs into a vehicle
Larry

Bill Bassett · Post by **Bill Bassett** » 12 Mar 2005 5:42 am

I have a ramp I got at a PetSmart store for our old lab to use getting in and out of our Tahoe. Seems to work pretty well but it never occured to me to use it for gear. Don't see why it wouldn't work for that too.
Bout $160.00 as I recall.