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Got my new flatbed.

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Well after waiting for many weeks. I got my flatbed installed this last Friday. After a 600+ mile drive on Thursday night. :(



The trip went well. No problems other than the drive down without a bed on the truck. :(



You guy's that want a better ride out of our heavy sprung 1st gen's. Put one of these beds on. It will ride very good. :-laf :-laf





Here are a couple of pic's. As far as I know I am the only 1st gen owner with one of these style beds.
 
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Have waited w/interest since your sig got modified,very deluxe looking bed, all those boxes will be used I'm sure, you can never have too much storage. want to put one on my 93 but I'm having trouble finding what I want under 2k. Congrats.
 
Steve 2k will not get you much as you have finding out in your search. I am allready filling up the boxes. LOL



Glen there is a 8k winch going into the tool box that is built into the headache rack. I will add a door in the center of that box. I hate having to come along a car onto a trailer. :D
 
That M8000 will double the uses you will find for it in the next two years. I never imagined how handy one was until I mounted one under my M-715. I would much rather have one under the bed than on the nose. Glen
 
Nice

Sorry boys and girls but the photos just don't give the credit that this sweet bed deserves. Matter of fact, I met Philip and Jermey for lunch and had to park my aluminum bed a couple parking spots away so the airborne molecules of aluminum wouldn't get crushed by Philips' super-heavy steel. :-laf :-laf :-laf



I thought that maybe you'd leave the twine on there just to prove to the non-flatbed crowd just how much easier and convient that a flatbed is. :)
 
Chris I might have left it on there. But we ran into rain here local. It was about time for me to go to work so Jeremy took it on out and parked it in the pole barn to keep the boxes dry. He brought it back while I was sleeping the next day.



I enjoyed the visit with you and your father. It was a nice break in a 775 mile trip. Remember what I told you. Lunch is on me in Oct. :D
 
one -ton this bed is made by B&W Custom Truck beds based out of Humboldt,KS.



http://www.turnoverball.com/



Then click on the custom bed link on the first page. Then just go threw the pages and spec a bed out.



Think hard about what you want a flatbed to do for you. Look at all the other brands on the market. Look at fit and finish on all. Look at the design, is it all square corners with butt welds or edges made on a brake press. . Brake press work takes time in a fab shop. Which cuts into profit margin.

Look at metal thickness used. Look and see the method used to mount the bed.



Something else to think of is if you want tool boxes with a standard flatbed is the aftermarket boxes are 18" deep X18" high X 24 long. These boxes hang down to far when installed under the bed on our size trucks. They also stick out past the edge of the bed sometimes. The boxes on this custom bed are sized to fit into the flow of the body lines better. My front boxes are 14" deep X 28" long X 14" tall. No one makes a behind the axle mount tool box. So on this one your on your own to eather have someone build them or do without. The built ones will most likely not match the front boxes if you go aftermarket boxes. Most of the aftermarket boxes are made of 18 or 20 age steel. In the rust belt I live in this means about 4 or 5 years and they are rusted threw. The boxes on this bed are . 125" thick, (20 gage is . 068" or so).



Most flat beds only offer a trap door for a goose neck hitch that you supply. This bed has a turn over ball hitch as standard equipment which means a flat floor with no lose in floor strength due to a trap door. But if you like the trap door setup it is a option. I didn't want a trap door. They rattle after the get some age on them. The hinges rust up making it hard to open them if not used often.



I guess the best way to explain it is to tell you to sit down and think hard what you want a bed to do.



What is the finished look you want for the truck? Do you want exposed frame rails and suspension? The side skirts and boxes cured that on mine.



Do you need square corners on the rear of the bed or do you need clipped corners for trailer clearence?



Do you need or want a large amount of onboard storage?



Do you want a light weight bed or something that will last longer. The rule on flatbeds is a light weight bed will rust out faster. The cheaper light weight beds weight about the same as a dually bed. My bed is around 1,200 to 1,500 lbs. The way the truck drives. I think its closer to 1,500. I'll get it scaled soon to find out.



As far as price. Go threw B&W's bed options and you can figure out what I payed. I don't want to put a lot of people into sticker shock. :-laf



This makes dually #6 I have owned in the last 25 to 30 years. This is the first custom flatbed I have bought. This bed as far as options for its use blows away any other flatbed I have had on a truck.



Like DieseMan359 stated. The pic's do not show the fit and finsh that the bed has. It is a top notch built bed. I work in a metal fab shop. I would be hard pressed to match the quality that B&W put into it.
 
Nice looking bed. I noticed on my drive back from houston in the 92 that the steel bed definitely smooths out the little bumps. Good shocks, help, too, but the weight on the rear is beneficial. Mine rides almost as smooth as the F150 I had in high school. MUCH nicer than the blue beast.



Daniel
 
Daniel



This bed droped the back of my truck a couple of inches and it also added weight to the front axle. I have run 50 PSI in the front tires sence I had it. Now I had to air up to 60 PSI. The weight on the front axle took most the chop out of the ride to. :D



The ride improved at least 50%. I had been thinking of fabbing up an air ride setup like MMiller has under his red truck. Now I don't need it. The ride is about like a 3/4 ton gasser now. I can live with it.
 
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