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Well done. Lets get this guy some subs. Start mentioning Urchfab in other posts and his view rate will go up. He deserves it.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bud.

Honestly I think you have just saved me so much money because I will now built one myself I was going to pay someone to do this for me

I would remove the spare wheel from under the back, and mount it opposite the fuel tank on the offside, weld a couple of bits of 1" box at the rear towards where the spare was, then you can slide your skids/ ramps in between the rear lights, makes it easier to get spare and skids. very good job you are doing.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

These videos are so helpful and inspiring. I’m a grassroots drifter. Here in the states we all use a biggo truck and a trailer to get to and from events, but I would like something simpler like a ramp truck. Unfortunately ramp trucks are crazy expensive to buy, even second hand. Luckily I’m a welder. Thanks for the ideas, cheers

Cheers for posting this project, pretty enjoyable to watch!

@seanpereira6961

5 жыл бұрын

Also, I reckon it would look awesome in a dark grey textured 'Hammertone' finish (not sure on the spelling)

love it. I still need to figure out a budget tow setup for my car.

Cracking job you're making

Beautiful work Matt.👍👍👍

Awesome work !

the space between the chassis to the rearbumper is a nice place to hang the sparewheel could close it up and make a hinge door over the top if you get smaller lights you might be able to slide youre ramps up under the chassis up to the rearwheels next to them

Great job Matt. I see so many of these flat beds that are over built and way too heavy, yours looks bang-on.

@missiondan526

5 жыл бұрын

the years will tell though

Looking great

Great series Matt, bloody nice job mate. Cheers

Very nice project....gives me some ideas for a project of my own....thanks.

That is really well thought out. Making quick work of it I see.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Hello. I'm Tow Truck from Indonesian.

Nice welds there 👍🏻

Good piece of welding there great work.

Another great video , keep these videos coming matt. Cheers man

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@MrWilliam.Stewart

5 жыл бұрын

glen hughes All his videos are great hey.

It's looking good

Love watching your channel keep up the good work mate

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers will do.

Amazing welds

Really really nice work man !! Love the dedication keep it up 👍

Awesome videos, it's good to see a Brit doing it too! :)

@MrWilliam.Stewart

5 жыл бұрын

dimmaz88 As an Australian, I'll have to admit, the Brits are tops when it comes to comedy, manners, and engineering competence. I'd love to have a cuppa with Mr Urch.

Nice build. Your local sand blasting outfit should be able to flame spray the bed with zinc-aluminium, much better then paint, not quite as good as hot dip galvanizing, but MUCH cheaper (not much more then industrial enamel (think sea freight container paint))

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

I will look into that. Cheers

great vid as always

nice welds

Great job matt

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers.

Hi iam new to your channel wow it's a pleasure watching you work iam very impressed 👍👍👍👍👍

building shit awesome love it 👍👍👏👏💪

Your a very good welder

@MrWilliam.Stewart

5 жыл бұрын

B3ns Jammin To be fair, he's not really a good welder.... He's a welding god!

Nice build Mate , wish my welds were that neat ...

@MrWilliam.Stewart

5 жыл бұрын

heggie Hog67 Don't feel bad your welds aren't as neat. Mat is the welding Stig.

@MrHeggie123

5 жыл бұрын

this is very true

Great vid, this should bring you in some work because your very good at your job... Well Done...

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers.

JUST SUBSCRIBED AWESOME WORKE BUDDY

Enjoying these videos. Is putting those outer supports your planning not a bit over worked? No harm of course but it looks like a very strong setup as is and wont have really big stuff on it either.

Nice work son

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Hi mate can you remember the measurements off the fall you did please as we are stuggling to find the best way as a flat dec or the back you done thanks

A+++

Great job Matt - well explained and good step through of the build. You interested me with the choice of different RHS (box) you used. I never quite worked out which is the best wall thickness to use for various builds. Do you have any rules of thumb that you use when designing a structure (eg strength vs weight vs bending moment etc)? Cheers

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, so you basically just have to look at which way the loads and forces are pushing or pulling on the structure when you design anything and base it off that. I have seen people build the whole bed from 1.5mm to make them super light but I wasn't comfortable with that, I've also seen way overbuilt beds so I should be somewhere in the middle. Cheers

Looks good, with great ideas! I wonder if it will benefit you to put an airbag lift helper spring in the front suspension, so when youre ready to drive the car up the ramp deck. The ramp angle will decrease when you lift the front making loading easier.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

I think it should be ok, the back will drop as the car moves up the ramps then rise as it gets towards the front. well it should do I hope! Cheers

@ibidu1

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you can lower the truck by putting the springs in the back over the axles like what low riders do.

You thought about adding a tow hitch to the rear of the extension? Easier to add at this stage. Maybe a bit of 2x2 heavy wall box section for a removable hitch? Makes a handy towing point,recovery point and surprising how often you need to tow stuff! Maybe a caravan or camping trailer if you staying over with a race car? On the odd occasion I have towed a trailer with second car or a body shell..

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

I would put one on but I can only drive up to 3.5 ton on my licence so there's no way I could tow a trailer and a car with it.

@rust2985

5 жыл бұрын

Urchfab is it difficult in the uk to upgrade your drivers license? 3.5 tons is not that much... here in Canada a normal drivers license lets you drive a vehicle with a combined weight of 11 tons.

Ur welding is lush!! Top man knows hes stuff 👍

Did you have to stretch the chasis frame? I have a 67 f350 I want to put a bed like this on. It has a chasis for a 8 foot bed. Just wondering I'd I have to stretch it 4 foot for a 16 foot bed.

I would say galvanising is good but as you said you've gotta drill a minimum of 2 holes in each box section I've done this and they still moaned there wasn't enough holes and the thickness of metal your using it warps like no tomorrow and a nightmare to fit back on after but it's personal preference nice build tho

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Yeh I think im just gonna paint it. Cheers

Top quality work mate ud carry an army tank on that body now. Gives me some good insight on how easy it is to make a nice tidy recovery truck for reasonable money. What do you anticipate to be your maximum payload when it's done. Cheers for the videos subscribed

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers, i'm hoping for it to weigh 2 tons max when its done, so i will be able to carry 1500kg.

@karlredmond7747

5 жыл бұрын

@@Urchfab thanks for the reply mate yeah u should be OK I had a transit like yours with a steel tipping body on it and it was 2100kg but I'd say your body would be slightly lighter so you should have more than enough carrying capacity. Looking forward to part 3 🖒

Hi Matt, looking very good mate. Have you thought about relocating the spare wheel as will be a bitch to get too now? Maybe you could do a second "box" area behind the first one and store it there? Will also give you better clearance below too.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

No mate, it drops down on a cable so its pretty easy to drop out. I was thinking it would be better for weight having it up front though. Cheers

Question how much would you have charged to do what you did in the first video to someone else's truck; and how much would you charge to do what you did in the second video to someone else's truck? I'm trying to get an idea of how much it would cost to do this job section by section.

Could you make drawers or utility boxes on the sides instead of a box in the middle of the bed. That way you can get stuff when there's a car mounted?

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

I will probably stick some on aswell.

How's the truck holding up. Are you still using away at it.

Beautiful welds...That's why I watch you. Most of my welding is small repairs. justcrusin109 also asked, how do you determine the sizes of channels and box tubes so the proper strength is achieved? My father was a firm believer of overkill, but in his job, weight wasn't an issue. Any tips would be a great help.

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, so you basically just have to look at which way the loads and forces are pushing or pulling on the structure when you design anything and base it off that. I have seen people build the whole bed from 1.5mm to make them super light but I wasn't comfortable with that, I've also seen way overbuilt beds so I should be somewhere in the middle. Cheers

@MrWilliam.Stewart

5 жыл бұрын

It's easy for Matt, because his brain is like an Engineering CAD software package. He just knows where the tensile and comprehensive loads are just by looking. It's kinda like drifting, easy when you know how. Daunting when you don't.

Anyone have idea which lisense category required to drive, like class B car licence driver can drive this ?

What size ramps have you used I'm just about to start building one myself I'm using 40x40x3mm for the frame and 80x40x2.5mm for the outside edge on the rear of the chassis how what size drop have you got on the right angle (7.03 in the video) and how and how long is it from there to your lights as I'm hoping to get 6ft ramps in there

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

My ramps are 7 foot, il do a video at the end with all the measurements. Cheers

@michaelsutton4623

5 жыл бұрын

Great thanks all the steel work was delivered this morning I'm hoping to get the ramps between the light bar and the diff more or less where your spare tyre is

Why don't you use some heavy duty stretched/expanded steel mesh instead of aluminium plate? it grips so much better.

@mickholgate3347

5 жыл бұрын

good idea, only downside is rocks do come up through it.

@user-ks5ff

5 жыл бұрын

Should be alright, he's got good mud guards on it.

@HTHCLLC

5 жыл бұрын

aluminum has a better "Cool" factor :p

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

Yeh is a good idea, that would be much more grippy and probably chaper but i've bought the ally now. Cheers

@user-ks5ff

5 жыл бұрын

If you've already bought that's cool, are you working on it over the weekend? I'm looking forward to the next part.

How long is the bed your making

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

15ft Cheers

Nice Bette than going out and buying a 14,000$ trailer

@Urchfab

5 жыл бұрын

For sure