pybyr
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Critical point-- make sure that whatever you have in the back of the bed for weight is secured.
A sudden stop or a crash can turn a bag of stone or whatever into a missile headed towards you. In a good situation, you'll dent up the front of your bed, in a bad situation, it could come through the window at you. I knew of a situation where that happened to someone who was bringing concrete sacks home for a project. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt.
Years back when I had a 2wd truck and lived at the end of a barely maintained road on top of a ridge in VT, I took an old tire without rim, and laid it on the ground, on top of a sheet of plastic. Put a piece of 2x6 in it with a very large eye bolt. Mixed a couple of 80 pound bags of Sakrete and filled the tire.
I could roll the concrete filled tire up a plank into the truck, and the eye bolt, which stuck up out of the concrete, served as a way to secure the thing to tie downs.
A sudden stop or a crash can turn a bag of stone or whatever into a missile headed towards you. In a good situation, you'll dent up the front of your bed, in a bad situation, it could come through the window at you. I knew of a situation where that happened to someone who was bringing concrete sacks home for a project. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt.
Years back when I had a 2wd truck and lived at the end of a barely maintained road on top of a ridge in VT, I took an old tire without rim, and laid it on the ground, on top of a sheet of plastic. Put a piece of 2x6 in it with a very large eye bolt. Mixed a couple of 80 pound bags of Sakrete and filled the tire.
I could roll the concrete filled tire up a plank into the truck, and the eye bolt, which stuck up out of the concrete, served as a way to secure the thing to tie downs.