What can you fit in a short bed?

[AMink]

I really miss my old long bed, but have found with proper squeezing I can still get a lot of stuff in the back of my Megacab. What have you squeezed into your short bed?

 

[jhenderson]

I went from a short bed cab and a half back to a reg cab long bed because I found out what will fit. After the off road fuel tank and the tool box, almost nothing else. A flat skidder tire in particular.

 

[jgillott]

My '92 Long bed ext. cab was just a touch too long for some of the access roads that I am on daily. Purchased a new '01 Regular Cab long bed and it was perfect. Family grew and went to the quad cab short beds. I can officially tell you, that after living with the short beds for a number of years now, I hate them. I end up dragging a trailer around with me many of times just to haul some stupid thing that is just too long for these little things. Now with that said, I can at least get them in to where I need to on a regular basis without getting hung up or jammed between trees somewhere. If I ever get to the point that I don't need to be off-road all the time, it's back to a long bed for me.

 

[SierraRam]

I really miss my old long bed, but have found with proper squeezing I can still get a lot of stuff in the back of my Megacab. What have you squeezed into your short bed?

Wow, I wanted to see it packed!

 

[AMink]

Wow, I wanted to see it packed!

Here ya go!

 

[JHumphries]

Does it count as 'fitting' if the tailgate is only halfway up? :-laf

 

[AMink]

Does it count as 'fitting' if the tailgate is only halfway up? :-laf

As long as the tailgate doesn't hit the propane tanks or the tongue jack! All's fair...

 

[AMink]

Here's an older picture. Same bike and quad but with a rack on.

 

[Shadrach]

The nice thing about a short box is your friends don't ask you to help them move Shad

 

[SierraRam]

I must say that is a great job of using the space you have available.

 

[pwerwagn]

Having had both... I never found the long bed to have any huge benefit. It takes a bit more creativity to get it all in the shortbed, but I've never had to leave something behind.



My common load:

5th wheel hitch (slider) still in bed, with my 37" spare in front of the hitch laying flat (I have to slide the slider back, lay the tire down, then slide it back up). Underneath the tire in the dead space, I have a lug wrench, jumper cables, bottle jack, etc. I have my hilift jack mounted to the side of the bed. Right behind my slider hitch I have a ~2' wide locking box where I keep my air compressor, another bottle jack, a 3"x30' tow strap, a bunch of tie downs and bungees, rags, random tools, etc. This still leaves me plenty of room to put a dirt bike on each side of the hitch, my big gear bag with my riding gear, 2 gas cans and a ramp but the tailgate wont quite close. I can pull a trailer behind it like this though.



If I need a touch more space, I have a tire-gate I can put on the truck that moves the tire to the tailgate and allows the tailgate to close with the bikes in the bed. Then I can put my sons little 4 wheeler and my other sons little PW50 dirt bike up front sideways and halfway on the 5th wheel hitch.



With the 5th wheel hooked up (obviously no dirtbikes haha), similar loading except I throw in another hi lift, 2 ice chests, a 100' tow strap, some chains, an extra spare for my 5th wheel (gets strapped to the top of my 37" spare), my fire-pit cooker, my disc cooker, and then i fill the voids with fire wood.



Ill try to find some pics to post up.







--Jeff