DIY Wood Truck Bed 

You're voice belongs in a Ford F150 commercial!

Just out of coincidence I came across a 97 Ranger that needs a bed and thought about this idea and here is it after a successful search. You are the man!

As a carpenter and a guy looking for flatbed ideas for my 86 f150 I love this build! 👍

You might want to drill a drain hole in those tie-downs you're going to recess. I learned the hard way that water collects in the pockets and, galvanized or not, rust will form. You can buy them with the holes already drilled, but you'd still have to drill a drain through the wood.

Thank You Thank You Thank You! I learned yesterday that my 19 y/o F-350 is unlikely to pass next inspection due to crossmember/bed rot. This video has so inspired me that, instead of moping around feeling sorry for myself, I'm bouncing up and down in my chair anxious to get started. What a wonderful summer project it will make!

That's a good wood finish but much better when you melt old candles and paraffin into it and apply HOT. Diesel, trans fluid, linseed oil, paint thinner, paraffin. Be a mad scientist.

Beautiful. Looks great. Thanks for the video. It would look great running on these thar hills of west Virginia. Lol . And let me set one thing straight we don't sleep with our sisters.😂

This looks like one of the best wood flatbeds I've seen. So I will copy your build. Thanks.

Been looking at several ideas as well. Yours is really the nicest one I have seen so far.

Burning it and then oiling makes it look fantastic!!! Thanks for the tip!!

That looks really special! I think you just increased the value of your truck!

Thank you so much for posting this. I know this was done a while ago but I used your video as a guide to my project although my craftsmanship is no where near your level. I know these things take time to make so I appreciate it. The materials list seemed like it varied from what you used in the video but it was mostly all there none the less. You've definitely gained a subscriber!

I like it! I have one to do soon on my sons Ranger before the snow gets here, so very soon😉Thanks for taking us along, think I’ll just duplicate yours... ✌🏼

Awesome results on a "quick" wood project! I love alternative finishes, thanks for the ideas. Also, look into tar. Pine tar, birch tar, etc. all of it smells amazing and adds a dark color if you add it to finishes. Combines well with a solvent and less so with an oil.

Now that's just flat-out cool! Nicely done!

What a fabulous look that scorching the timber gives 👍 By the way, here in the UK we call that ‘wall’ a bulkhead. Looking forward to more on the truck. 👌

Looks great. I need to do this for my F250. Thanks for sharing

So glad I found this video. I actually found a photo of this exact truck on Google & surprised there's a video on the bed getting built. I'm fixing to do my bed on my f150

Pretty awesome great video simple and to the point gonna do one of these builds on my truck thanks for sharing!👍🏻👍🏻

Just yanked the factory bed off of my 75 f150, this is exactly what I want to do. Great design, straight forward, and simple.

Nice job on the truck bed Friend! Thanks for sharing the video with us.👌👍😎JP

Shared with friends and most importantly my Dad. Started looking for a decent used truck today to do something similar this winter.

Nice to see a woodworker build a flat bed. So many folks have no woodworking skills.

I've got a 69 f100 that will be a daily driver. Long story short the bed is in really rough shape so I looked into a wooden flat bed. Came across your video and decided to do something similar. Thank you for the idea.

The wall that you're talking about is called a headache rack. Great job, I can't wait to see what you do with the sides!

Great video my friend. Gives me an idea for my little Toyota pickup. Keep us updated.

You are a beast my friend. Wish I had you here with me to do my project. I'm doing a 1981 Ford f150 myself. And I'm using your material list.

Nice project. That’s exactly what I’m going to do on my F-250 2009. Tanks for the idea

well after moving back up north......this will save my 98 f150. the rust is getting to it bad. really liked how you did it. thank you

This is just what I was looking for thanks bro. Truck looks better than before

I will be atempting this this summer. Thank you for the tutorial!!

My clapped out Silverado thanks you. I'm going to build a bed for it and this video is perfect to get a real good idea of what I want to do and how. Thanks.

Great job on the build! It looks great! I was always told to use Diesel and used motor Oil

Great Craftmanship,On this Build. 👍

Looks great! Very nice job!

The lack of sides is way more stylish than I would have thought. You can probably back up to hitch a trailer super easy, I mean it's always easy but with this you can almost see the ball.

Great job on the build! It looks great!

It looks amazing!!!! Great work!

Awesome beautiful work

Thanks for the video. Know it's an old one. I like how the wood looks going to apply this to build a tonneau cover. I have a cateye silverado I'm putting a faux patina paint job and a normal tonneau cover just won't cut it. I think this will look killer as a cover to set just inside the bed rails. Great looking bed

Far Out for me this would be the perfect bed. Thanks

Great looking truck bed

Awesome job!!!

Can you narrate my life lmao you sound like Jeff bridges I didn’t read the comments to see if this was brought up

I literally just heard of using diesel as a preservative finish. I did a little research and the recipe I found was 10:1:1 diesel,boiled linseed oil,and stain. It was an old country boy who told me about it. I’m putting it on cedar that I milled and it looks very good.

Came out beautiful

I've been contemplating building a wooden bed on my new F550. Most people I tell that to think I'm crazy and that I should use steel or aluminum. But what most people don't understand is that wood has some great properties. It's actually very light relative to it's strength. it's easy to work with. And it doesn't rust or oxidize. The only thing you must keep in mind building a truck bed is that it will be twisting as the truck rolls down the road so you don't want to use thin screws that might snap. And you might want to use some galvanized corner braces if you are building a super heavy and strong bed like I am. I will also be using aluminum for the stake pockets and a thin aluminum sheet on the floor so that topsoil , mulch , or stone does not rot the bed and can be easily shoveled off. I love your torch treatment. If you don't know it, the Japanese did that a thousand years ago because the burnt wood resisted decay and fungus. Of course it also brings out the grain nicely.

Great job.

Also have an 87 Chevy I am probably buying. I would be doing a wood bed. This definitely helps plan it out.

Very nice work and instructional video. Turned out great

Very nice job.

Nice work!

That bed really makes that truck unique and it looks damn nice! Awesome job on it!

I think I'm going to copy this design, fantastic job man.

This is awesome, my f150 needs this

Nice job Rob. It came out great.

This is a very good video thank you!

It looks great.

Simple but a beautiful outcome

Thanks for the great vid. Going to do this on a 95 Nissan I just bought.

Liked it...I enjoy doing things like this also..

Realy nice job man

This is some terrific info!

Love it well done !

I enjoyed that thanks! I now have better ideas on how to proceed with my Japanese mini truck deck conversion. Changing the original steel deck to flat deck wood (like your truck)

No sir !!! Thank you, was really helpful and awesome job.

You have inspired me to build somthing like this for my C 600 :)

That looks great

looks great!

Awesome build thank you I will be doing the dodge version soon,

Man , this is sweet ... great job ...

I've seen the slide-stop at the head of the bed referred to as a "headache rack". it's great to know that I won't have to do too much finicking around with odd shapes for the frame if I decide to build my own flatbed, as opposed to buying one. My 09 Ranger's bed is rotting out at the front. One of many things on the list of things I'm fixing due to living in the rust belt.

killer job cheers friend

Excelente👍, buena idea!, dos camionetas Ford❤. Gracias a tu video

looks good, enjoyed the video.

Looks great dude

Coffee grounds is something I use when my stain isn't dark enough. I've never heard of burning the surface of the wood to bring out the grain before, nifty idea. If the sides are strong enough, I'd put tie downs on the sides too.

Great video

Looks awesome

Nice job.

great job

Very Nice👌👍

Man this looks great

Beautiful!!!

Wow, that's nice. I might try this on my 95, F150 since it took less than 10 minutes and some leftover 2x's. 😋

I've been considering a flatbed for my S10, as dorky as it may look, because it would suit my needs a little more but I've struggled to find a plan/idea that suits my taste. After watching this, I think I might have to take some notes

Square out the holes on the hold down with a file and then use Carriage head bolts. I voted for that burn job, I do think it turned out quite nice.

Excellent 👍

Outstanding ..!

In the world of big trucks and flatbeds, we always called that wall at the front there the 'Headache Rack'.

Cool bed

Pretty nice

I’m actually doing something very similar right now. Gonna used a few tips from your video

Damn that was cool!!

If you have (or have access to) a welder you ought to be able to get some allthread (or bolts) and attach studs to the underside of the tiedowns. alternatively, move the tie down points to the sides where the bolt heads won't be in the way (much) or file a square into the plates to accept a carriage bolt, it'd still stick up but wouldn't be a catching point.

good job

did something similar to this for a old ranger I had. the center two floor/bed boards tho I put on hinges and didnt bolt them down but used a groove sorta like cabinets so they could sit flush. this way if I ever needed to get at the fuel pump I'd never have to drop the tank. after doing two fuel pumps on my other trucks, I will never ever drop a tank every again. so i wanted to be able to just flip open a small section of my bed and easily reach the fuel pump.

Great idear thks

Great video, I may be doing this since I can't find a bed for my truck

If you want to flush mount pull hooks on the bed use flat head screws and push countersinks in the holes with a hardened pin made from a short grade 8 socket head cap screw on top and a nut countersunk on the bottom using a hydraulic press. Some tie-down plates come with countersunk holes, much easier than making modifications.