Rear Bumper Options

['68 C-20]

I am looking for pictures of a rear "work bumper". Over the years I have occasionally seen a particular bumper on some work trucks.

Covered in Diamond Plate. Not any taller than the step and tow optional bumper of the '60's. It is real wide about a foot. Wide enough to step and stand on. You might have seen a vice mounted on it. It also wraps around the rear bed sids and stops just before the rear fender openings.

Anyone seen them? Have Pics? Know of anyone who makes them?

[Sport/Truck]

Sounds like an `80's bumper? http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=319601
s/t

['68 C-20]

Thanks, but no, that is not it, that is a regular step and tow. That one is about 6 inches wide at the top (the diamond plate surface) the one I am looking for as about a foot to 18 inches wide, it sticks way out the back of the truck and wraps around the rear bed sided about up to the wheel well openings. They were made to work on, we had a farrier around here years ago that had one with a small anvil on one side and a vice on another. I saw one on a plumbers truck once that he had mounted his pipe bender on. They were made to be a work platform. Kinda Ugly but they had a purpose.

[Tx Firefighter]

I looked everywhere for something similar to what you're describing. I finally gave up and built my own.

The top surface is 12 inches deep and has wrap around, rounded ends and edges.

['68 C-20]

Tx Firefighter,
Do you have any pics of it? Actually the other use I saw for one was on the back of a 1 ton that had been converted to a forestry Fire Truck. We used to put Indian Pumps on the bumper and strap them onto our backs from it.

Are you currently a Firefighter? I am a "retired" Fireman in NH.

[Tx Firefighter]

Here you go.



It's 12 inches wide at the treadplate.



The deals behind the license plate are a hidden reciever hitch and recessed 8 prong trailer plug.



I am a fireman. I'm actually an Driver / Engineer on a pretty busy engine. Paramedic too, but thankfully, no more ambulance duties.

[special-K]

The step bumpers that wrap around to the wheel well are known as Bartons bumpers.That was the best known or first,so the name stuck.They are a western thing.I never saw them on eastern trucks.But,all those I`ve seen were just the same as the factory bumper offered through`71.There were other`s built with large step surfaces for camper trucks.I had one on my`71 Camper rig that slid out for when the camper was mounted.Mine didn`t wrap around and I guess it wouldn`t have been able to slide if it did.Maybe that company or another one made a fixed version the wraped around.I`m sure I`ve seen what you`ve described over the years.Truck body companies built step bumpers,as well as many regional step bumper companies were around back them.I`m sure they were produced,but many bumpers we`ve seen were fabricated or hired-out by the owner.Back then,a truck wasn`t required to have a back bumper and alot of stubborn old farts weren`t gonna pay no extry for no dang bumper.
Here`s a Barton`s bumper:

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This is the only rear shot of my camper I have on the computer.Can you see it?