Bed kit recommendations for '70 C10 LWB

[mackdaddy78]

Hi, I used the bed wood kit and stainless strips from LMC truck. The Oak wood was good quality and everything fit well. Their shipping is a little on the high side but they charge on the total price of your order plus $20.00 for oversize items. So it would be around $50.00 to ship the wood bed. It would be more if you bought the strips at the same time. Mar-K wanted around $120.00 to ship. I welded the L brackets on the box side. They were pre punched and were the only holes I had to drill into wood edge boards.
Hopefully this helps.

Mackdaddy

[trac209]

Originally Posted by mackdaddy78

Hi, I used the bed wood kit and stainless strips from LMC truck. The Oak wood was good quality and everything fit well. Their shipping is a little on the high side but they charge on the total price of your order plus $20.00 for oversize items. So it would be around $50.00 to ship the wood bed. It would be more if you bought the strips at the same time. Mar-K wanted around $120.00 to ship. I welded the L brackets on the box side. They were pre punched and were the only holes I had to drill into wood edge boards.
Hopefully this helps.

Mackdaddy

Wow that bed looks amazing

[jcwren]

Originally Posted by mackdaddy78

Hi, I used the bed wood kit and stainless strips from LMC truck. The Oak wood was good quality and everything fit well. Their shipping is a little on the high side but they charge on the total price of your order plus $20.00 for oversize items. So it would be around $50.00 to ship the wood bed. It would be more if you bought the strips at the same time. Mar-K wanted around $120.00 to ship. I welded the L brackets on the box side. They were pre punched and were the only holes I had to drill into wood edge boards.
Hopefully this helps.

Mackdaddy

That does look >really< nice! I may go that route. I can pick up the metal work locally at Year One. Their prices on that aren't too bad, although their wood is pretty expensive. Investigating having a local cabinet shop cut it for me. Buford, GA has the highest number of cabinet shops per square mile in the US, according to the Chamber of Commerce. Oak is affordable, too bad teak isn't. That'd look pretty good with the medium bronze, I'm guessing.

[mackdaddy78]

Thanks, the stain was called gunstock. You said you were worried about drilling the mounting holes. If you noticed there are not any on top of the bed on mine.
You can mount the bed to your truck with out drilling through the wood. Mount it from underneath with the rails directly to the frame. Your bed strip bolts through the crossmembers is more than enough to hold the wood on. I will take a picture and post it on here.

[Boog]

That's a clean floor without the large bolts and washers on top. I'd like to see underneath too.

[zicc1835]

Originally Posted by Boog

That's a clean floor without the large bolts and washers on top. I'd like to see underneath too.

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