Check this thing out ....

www.shurtrax.com

It's built to be secured in the bed which sure beats sandbags in the back.

PISTOL

 

Concrete bed liners like Hoss has are the only way too go.

 

to bad 500lbs does nothing for my one wheel wonder. I have 720lbs of sandbags against the tailgate and it's still not enough

 

Probably good for the smaller pickups and the 1/2 tons. I need 800 lbs in the bed of mine

 

I had a buddy in high school, he had a 82 chevy gasser, he had about 6" of ice built up along with the snow and busted his rear end, he wasn't doing anything crazy either. granted it was only a 10 bolt, but still. i would rather have no weight.

 

To bring my truck to 50/50 weight distribution would require 1400# right over the rear axle. My normal FAW is 4100#, RAW is 2710#!

 

It could be like the world's largest St Bernard.




Honest Officer,...it's in case I get stuck in a snow bank.

 

And, when you are in the middle of the winter in Brainard, Minnesota with a full and frozen bedbag and need to use the bed to haul some lumber and concrete blocks, you do what?????? Me thinks maybe some concrete blocks or steel weights are the way to go. I can remove them even if they are "frozen".

 

Could you install the thing underneath the bed?

If I lived within 1000 miles of ice, I would think about installing a tank under the bed where the spare tire is and filling that up with whatever whenever it got freezing...

 

Neat idea but...... you can buy a lot of concrete patio blocks for $140. Concrete weighs more than water too. That's why it sinks.

 

Not Always..........


http://chinadan.com/16albuma/87-004h.html

 

That's what they call displacement. Anything that displaces more weight in water than itself, will float. A brick will sink, but make it into a boat shape and thin (same weight) it'll float.

My opinion, put like 300 (or more)lbs back there, 100 sand, 100 small stone, and 100 salt, that way if you get stuck or slide off the road, you can use it to get back on the road. I keep a mix of those three in a bucket for my wife in her car, I told her you get on ice, throw it down, it'll help out a bunch.

 

I think I’ll stick to the way I’ve handled this in the past. Three plastic drums full of water, that’s approximately 1370lbs. With one strap holding them to the tailgate and another pulling forward in case the tailgate comes open.

Add a set of chains and I can move and stop (just in case you did not know, the stop is the important part) better than a 4X4

 

You're 100% correct. Engineering background too?

 

I think we should all move down and live with FIVER BOB