On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:00:12 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.

My old rigger in Connecticut used to move masts as long as 70 feet
that way. He had a full length rack extending out to the front
bumper. With a 40 foot mast you've really only got about a 10 foot
over hang on each end if you can support it in the front, perhaps with
an "X" frame to the bumper.

It depends how far you have to go of course, and in what kind of
conditions.

Hall Spars in Bristol, RI uses a small trailer dolly that supports the
mast at about 2/3rds of its length, with the long end going to the
truck bed. They go up and down I-95 with some pretty big masts using
that arrangement.