Loading Sled In Truck Bed

[louis]

Anyone know of a good design or product that sits in the bed with the sled on top. The ramp manually slides down to the ground, once the machine is parked on the ramp, the ramp is then lifted and manually slides into the bed.

[jtkennedy9]

I've seen these in some of the sled magazines, but I can't remember who makes them. Check out SnowTech, SnowGoer or American Snowmobiler.

[goonbabbler]

The product you want is called Lock and Roll. It is made and sold by Brian Jewell near Port Perry. Phone 705 738 2473 Birch Point Marina, they have his phone number. I have used one for 3 years now, and it works excellent. The aluminum ones are around six hundred and fifty dollars.

[boss hoss]

Originally posted by louis@Oct 3 2003, 09:12 AM
Anyone know of a good design or product that sits in the bed with the sled on top. The ramp manually slides down to the ground, once the machine is parked on the ramp, the ramp is then lifted and manually slides into the bed.

NOW CAN YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN??

[snowmutt]

i have a design that works great for around 150 bucks it fits in the box w/ the tailgate closed when not in use and gives you some wt in the truck all you need is some 3/4 plywood and some 2x4s and a old track and some hardware i sell them for 250 getting the track is the key to the whole system a little brain power will save you a few bucks the center part of the ramp comes out and the rest slides up under the sled and then just put the center part up on the side and strap it down ill send some pics as soon as i down size some good luck

[louis]

Thanks fellow sledders.
Revrnd,
do you have a pic available?

[dawg]

snowmutts idea looks real good.

another good cheep idea is a guy on the rear of the sled and 2 guys on the front. ussually works for us.

[louis]

Dawg,

This is for when no ones around, the boys are 2 hours behind and I want to load up, go home and take their call from my sofa watching football on Sunday while having a beer .

[Grimm]

Hey Snowmutt, when your travelling with your sled and the loading ramp, where do you store the back piece of plywood?

I built my ramp on the cheap with a ladder frame design.

[Grimm]

Louis, I made up a diagram of the ramp for my truck. While not a slide in type of ramp, it allows me to drive my sled right into the bed of my truck. I have to be careful as I have a cap and the sled's windshield just makes it under without touching the cap.

As you can see in the scan of the diagram, I bought two 2X4s and two 2X6s, both 8 feet long. I had some spare pieces of 2X4s for the cross members, so I didn't need to buy more wood. I screwed each of the 8 foot length 2X4s to each of the 2X6s and formed an "L" shape beam to accomodate the load of the sled. The skis of the sled will rest directly on the 2X6 and the raised portion of the 2X4 will act as a guide to keep the skis from slipping off the ramp. I proceeded to notch, with a skilsaw, 4 chunks out of each 8 foot length of 2X4 to accomodate the 4 cross members. Make sure that you only cut only 1 1/2 inches down and 3 1/2 inches long as we all know that a finished 2X4 isn't really 2 by 4 inches.

Now measure the distance between the inside edges of the skis on your sled and cut your cross members to that length.

We can now put the ramp together as in the pic. For the top and bottom cross members, I drilled holes, 4 in all, through the cross members and a couple of inches down into the 8 foot legth 2X4s. I then slide a 3-4 inch bolt through the cross members and into the holes on the 2X4s. This keeps the ramp together when driving your sled up it. Make the holes big enough to easily remove the bolts by hand when you dismantle it.

When I have the ramp all put together and resting on the tailgate, I Herc strap the top cross member to the bumper, which keeps the ramp from sliding off. On the underside of each 2X6, I screwed a block of wood about 6 inches from the top to provide a stop to prevent the ramp from sliding up the tailgate when cinching up on the Herc strap.

Now you can load up your sled on your own, safely and easily and take it with you. Oh, and it's dirt cheap too.

Happy sledding!