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How are you guys carrying your yaks on pick up trucks? Too long to put in
the bed of the truck, I am thinking of getting one of those "ladder racks"
that people use to carry ladders around. Any suggestions?

You can almost certainly get a welder to make you one of those racks for far
less than a pre-made one.

I use one myself.

-Paul

Thats what I was thinking. For $500 I would kind of expect it to come with
either a: a pickup truck or b: a kayak :)

I might look into a local welder, we got a bunch of them around.

Kristopher
"Paul Skoczylas" wrote in message
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" wrote in message
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How are you guys carrying your yaks on pick up trucks? Too long to put
in
the bed of the truck, I am thinking of getting one of those "ladder
racks"
that people use to carry ladders around. Any suggestions?

You can almost certainly get a welder to make you one of those racks for
far
less than a pre-made one.

I use one myself.

-Paul

Check out AmericanVan.com, or their mail catalog. You can see a
few examples, for poss. ideas.
If you are mechanically inclined, you could actually fabricate
one yourself from assorted aluminum tube/angle w/bolts, w/ no welding. The
"sleeves" for the rack are bolted to the bed wall, in store-bought units.
Those sleeves have welded tabs, but you can actually bolt right through
your alum sleeve tube itself, w/ flat head screws (stainless pref.), using,
say, a 1/4" hole on one face of the tube, and 1/2" on the other, to clear
the screw head and to clear a countersink for the 1/4 hole. You have to
select the alum tubing for a proper sliding fit (rack in sleeve), or buy
oversized for the sleeve, and then shim w/ nylon or delrin, which is a good
idea anyway.
If you weld directly to the bed wall, have them use a high nickel
rod, which is less prone to rusting (or a stainless rod), and then
prime/paint the everlovin bejeesus on/around it, as welds become quite
susceptible to corrosion, even beyond the immediate weld. Which might be a
problem inside the double wall.
W/ bolted aluminum, you won't have this problem, but still
prime/paint any drilled holes.
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Thats what I was thinking. For $500 I would kind of expect it to come
with
either a: a pickup truck or b: a kayak :)

I might look into a local welder, we got a bunch of them around.

Kristopher
"Paul Skoczylas" wrote in message
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" wrote in message
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How are you guys carrying your yaks on pick up trucks? Too long to
put
in
the bed of the truck, I am thinking of getting one of those "ladder
racks"
that people use to carry ladders around. Any suggestions?

You can almost certainly get a welder to make you one of those racks for
far
less than a pre-made one.

I use one myself.

-Paul

I am always amazed at the prices of "Recreational" items. Oh well, it just
makes me even happier when I manage to build/rebuild or invent my own. I
have a 1972 fishing boat salvaged from certain death on my friends farm and
drive a 20 year old car that gets me back and forth to work (500 miles a
week) just as well as a $40,000 new one. Some might say that I am cheap - I
prefer prudent. Cheap is when you use duct tape because the elastic in your
underwear gave out 2 years ago. ;

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"William R. Watt" wrote in message
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.. The rack is made of aluminium. Costs
around $500.

I think for somehwat less than $500 I could manage to "custom bend" a
length
of aluminum tube to mate a kayak to a pickup truck.



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It is definitely cheaper to make a rack yourself if you have the time
and ability to fabricate it to suit you. Not every has the time or
ability to do it.
I have better things to do with my time such as boating and working at
my job. The factory built rack will be more flexible in the vehicle that
it fits. My son will not have to buy another rack when he trades trucks
again. The rack is well made and looks very durable.
The rack is welded in all the right places and dresses up the looks of
his new truck. If a person built one to the standard and quality of the
one my son bought, they might save half the price but would spend less
time on the river building it.

Lynn Tegrity

wrote:
How are you guys carrying your yaks on pick up trucks? Too long to put in
the bed of the truck, I am thinking of getting one of those "ladder racks"
that people use to carry ladders around. Any suggestions?

Thanks-
Kristopher

Its funny, I drive an 84 Dodge pickup. Paid about $4000 7 years ago. Put a
new engine in it last year for about $1000. Never left me anywhere, always
got me home. Wish I could say the same for the newer cars my wife has
owned.

Kristopher


"Kenneth McClelland" wrote in message
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I am always amazed at the prices of "Recreational" items. Oh well, it just
makes me even happier when I manage to build/rebuild or invent my own. I
have a 1972 fishing boat salvaged from certain death on my friends farm
and
drive a 20 year old car that gets me back and forth to work (500 miles a
week) just as well as a $40,000 new one. Some might say that I am cheap -
I
prefer prudent. Cheap is when you use duct tape because the elastic in
your
underwear gave out 2 years ago. ;