Build a flatbed pickup 

Cory Miller wow! Now this right here folks is what I call a glowing review!😂 well I’m glad you enjoyed watching our little adventure and gained a few ideas along the way. Thank you for watching!

Well thank you kindly! And thanks for watching.

Thank you so much for watching. This ol timer is actually my uncle and we certainly cherish our time working together. If we filmed all the silly shit we get into we’d get kicked off the internet!😂

Fantastic! I think a Ranger would make for an excellent flatbed build! Hope this gave you some good ideas for your own approach. Good luck and Thanks for watching!

4 cyl manual trans?

Andrew Browner actually there was one commenter that ruined everything by telling me to put a guard on my angle grinder😂 I can paint a self portrait with an angle grinder! I’ll be fine. That guard is for people that like things getting in their way and don’t understand rotational kick back and pinch points🙄

Wow! Well thank you so much for watching I’m glad you enjoyed the antics. He’s actually my uncle.... so I made him pay me😂

Ha! We’ll take it. It was a fun build and great time. My uncle is a silly bastard and I’m probably sillier!

Wow! RU-vid is pretty big, so that’s saying a lot! Thank you for watching!

max wiedenheft thank you so much! That old timer is actually my uncle. Ya our relationship is interesting for true😂 but we have fun....and sometimes make something cool. For us it was certainly more than a flatbed and we’re happy we could share with everyone willing to watch. Thank you for watching!

Todd Parker rock on! You can do it! Make a video, take some pics! When you’re done come back and comment and let us all know where we can see your build. Good luck on your project and thank you for watching!

Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed our antics.

Fantastic! THAT would be a killer build. Hopefully this gives you a few ideas on how to approach your build. A dual cab Hulu’s with a flatbed! Badass. Hope we can see a video on that. Or at least some pics when you’re done? Let us know in the comments! Thank you for watching.

@@4rnorthwest Yes, i 'll post some pics somewhere, i'm not yet "video ready" 😬 It's an old truck and i had to fix a lot of rust on it, but i love it 🙃

Jorge Serna That’ll make a badass flatbed for sure! Thank you for watching our little build here!

@@4rnorthwest Thanks. I just ordered 4 sheets of steel and a 2x3 tube for $577 delivered 50 miles. I think materials is about to hit $1000 right before paint on this bed. It's going to be a challenge moving plates as I have no helper.

@@cutweldngrind Right on! Thats exciting! Moving sheets alone? Well in my video you may remember me on a forklift, using a huge sheer.... Ya those aren't mine. lol. I work for my local steel yard part time so I get wicked deals on my materials and use of all the equipment! But hey, necesity is the annoying neighbor of invention! So use rollers, levers, chain hoists, whatever it takes! But have your phone handy incase you get pinned under a sheet ya! What size and gauge sheets are you dealing with?

@@4rnorthwest I have a fork lift that will place them where I need them. I will do some minor trimming and then try to slide them onto flat bed frame. I will try filming this see how it goes. I wanted to get a small electric winch to help me pull them up.

I did not expect flat sheets to weight a total of 999lbs. I think my truck will level out now with all the weight.

racrx7 Ya we had a good laugh that for sure. Thank you for watching!

Wango Tango we were yuckin it up that’s for sure!😉

Same with me and mine

layra Thompson right on! Why wait? Start now!....like, right now. It’s 10pm where I’m at, start now😑....thanks for watching!👋🏽😀

I hope that’s a good thing! Or at least a funny thing!😂

It is a good thing, id watch a spinoff of Michael and Dwight

tothegrave13 hahaha! Well than’ you so much! You know, I consider myself a decent craftsman and honestly, it was! When you learn to manipulate wood and steel your world changes. You look at everything in daily life differently. All things around us were created my some human, a human with hands, hands just like yours and mine! Knowing this you have to tell yourself, “hey, there is no reason my hands can’t make that too!” Thank you so much for watching!

4R NORTHWEST I absolutely agree, it’s amazing what you can do if you just try!

jared vargas fantastic! You should watch at least a few more times just to be safe!😉👍🏽

What year?

@@oogabooga6852 1999 shortbed

Hubert Robinson thank you! Brothers?😂 I must look worse than I thought! The old man is my Uncle. He’s got about 35 years on me! Thanks for watching!

Hell ya do it!!! Thank you for watching!

Mine is the same way. Any idea what will fix it? I just bought the truck. Thanks again

@@daviddenman7479 It's probably the speedo cable (inner 'wire' is broken or 'stuck', or is just disconnected). But if the odometer still works, then it's the speedo gauge 'needle' return-spring (it's 'popped' off its mount or is broken). Search and check Y/T for vids on this subject to get more details about the fix. It's nice to have a working speedo !!

Rob Panis thank you! Hope you’re off and building your own flatbed now!😉👍🏽

Wolfgang Kovac thank you! You should totally give it a go on your rig, it’s really not as difficult as we made it look😂 “tie downs and a hitch”? Excellent suggestions. If it were my vehicle I would have! But I was payed to do what I was payed to do. No more, no less. But believe me, I mentioned it more than once🙄

An excellent point! One not made in the video. But yes, we DID in fact install inline resistors to the LED noizemakers for the “over flash”. The scene you’re referring to is actually sped up which is easy to miss since we killed the lights in the scene. Hence the over flash in that scene. But hey good catch! And thank you for watching!

Colbie Hamrick thank you so much I’m glad you enjoyed the build and hope you got something out of it! Mow much in materials? Well, I also work at a steel yard so naturally I get smokin deals!😂 and access to machinery as you may have seen. That part was not at my shop😉

Daniel Ernesto wonderful! Thank you for watching! Tell Argentina I said “Hi! 👋🏽😀”

Im glad you enjoyed our antics! believe it or not thats just us being us when we get together! It gets way worse than that. Thank you for watching!

Victor Well thank you! and Thanks for watching. as for the grinder of angles, NOPE! guards on that particular tool are negative bueno! not gonna do it! 😂 i never work outside my comfort level and i can paint a freekin self portrait with an angle grinder 😉. As for everyone else, id encourage to NOT modify their tools. do as i say not as i do👍🏽

Joseph henry I’m glad you got something from this little video! Thank you for watching!

Thank you!

Manny Flores I’ll have to try that! I already hate watching or listening to myself on screen. You can imagine how much I suffer editing my own videos🙄 maybe this will help!😂 thanks for watching!

Theres a lot of tacking going on for sure! followed up with laying down longer lines. We had ton of footage making a "lots of fun" to narrow it all down to 20 minutes! But theres nothing more boring than watching someone weld the same thing over and over again in real time! hence editing. Thanks for watching!

Super5 that’s a great question! Ask someone whose pickup has a 2 foot lift. Most standard vehicles would hit their tires before they touch any steel!😂 in all honesty I wonder how the hell some of these pickups from the factory ever got DOT approval to begin with. Once the bed was removed we couldn’t believe the shit show of welds that held the frame together!🙄. I’m confident most average hobby welders can fuse metal together with more stability than stock frames from what we’ve seen🤨