From: none@none.com99   
      
   I've got a utility bed for a pickup truck out back.  I long ago decided   
   not to install it on the planned truck.  I bought a new truck with a   
   utility bed instead.  I've since sold that truck, and the truck I was   
   going to do the bed swap on, but I still have the utility bed. For a   
   while I've been thinking about turning it into a trailer.  Something I   
   can load up with stuff on the rare occasion I go help a buddy doing   
   handy man type stuff.  With the right tires and axle it might also   
   double as an over lander, although I doubt I'd use it that way... more   
   than once or twice anyway.  I have an axle, actually two of them, I took   
   off the gooseneck last year when I installed a pair of new axles with   
   actual modern electric brakes.  I just didn't know where I was going to   
   get the steel to make a frame for it.  I might only use it a couple   
   times a year.  Its not like I plan to get back into contracting.   
      
   In my scrounging for steel I didn't mind wasting to build that winch   
   plate project I walked around back of the shop and saw several long   
   pieces of C-channel laying on the back work slab I totally forgot about.   
     A buddy had a fire at his hotel several years back which damaged a   
   couple parking shades.  Part of helping him clear it up was hauling off   
   the some c-channel.  I think it was part of the no longer function   
   parking shades.  Not functioning due to being vaporized by fire.  I   
   totally forgot about having that channel.   
      
   I actually have everything I need to turn that truck bed into a trailer,   
   and being a utility bed I won't have to show a dismantling permit to the   
   DMV.  An OEM bed is "part of the truck, but a utility bed is a bolt on   
   accessory.  Just register the whole thing as a home made trailer.   
      
   Well, there is one thing.  I asked about it some time back for some   
   other project.  How do you bend c-channel in a home shop?   
      
   The only thing I can think of is to cut notches in the flanges.  Get the   
   web red hot, and bend it around a couple parking bollards.  I have   
   bollards protecting the building next to my over head doors on the shop.   
     V it out, weld, grind flat, and weld on a truss plate over the welded   
   beam top and bottom.   
      
      
      
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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