Best Pickup Dump System

[Koa Man]

OK, so most of you guys did not like my best glove choice, so I will offer you something else. I want to convert my 3/4 ton pickup to to flatbed dump. I checked locally and quotes I got for the bed and dump hoist installed was $8100 and $8500, plus tax 4.712%. Dump hoist only using pickup bed was $3100 and $3400.

I found this setup which I am going to order sometime in the next month. I can install this myself in half a day. Installation instructions say 2 hours.

What do you think?

http://www.powerdecks.com/product_display.aspx?product_guid=AmeriDeck-Loading-System

Before someone says load capacity of 2000 lbs is too light, I have never been able to get more than 1500 lbs of brush in my truck bed with 4 ft. high sides. Even chopped up really good and some 4 to 6 inch dia. logs on top.
Big logs would go into my dump trailer. This would be mainly for smaller jobs and tight spaces where the capacity of the dump trailer is not needed.

 

[SkwerI]

This is the only pickup truck dump I'm familiar with. Dave has had this for over 10 years.

 

[Dave Shepard]

So it doesn't actually "dump"? Looks like a lot of money for a non-dumping dumptruck.

A friend of mine had one of these in his '99 Dodge 2500. He hauled up to 4400 pounds of gravel in it on a regular basis.:roll: I recall it was around $3500, but that was a few years back. Could have bought the truck with the dumper, Fisher V plow, and 38k miles for $15k three years ago.

 

[Koa Man]

What doesn't dump? If you are talking about the mini-hook lift on my link, it dumps at a 45° angle. What I like about it is it puts the box flat on the ground as well to load. I could drive my mini loader in there and put it on the bed.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I see how it works now. They should put some pics of the deck on the ground, and of it dumping to full tilt. I didn't have time to peruse it fully last time I looked. It looked as though it just slid out the back of the truck and dangled there. I'll pay more attention next time.

 

[sotc]

that is a cool looking item wesley!!

 

[sotc]

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[ewsa]

I got quotes on putting a steel flatbed and hoist on my '03 3/4 ton last summer. Quotes ranged from $4200 - $5300 bed and hoist installed. Maybe your location has something to do with the higher price.

 

[Jonseredbred]

I have one of those ez dumpers in a pickup.

I wouldn't be without one now.

 

[Monkeywithasaw]

what about the hoist that goes under the existing bed or the one that goes under a flat bed they start out at $1100 and can dump up to 7 tons

 

[SkwerI]

The problem with those is that the pickup bed isn't strong enough to handle the twisting without being bolted to the truck frame.

 

[Monkeywithasaw]

yeah but if your only dumping 1500 lbs it wouldnt really twist and the ones that go on the flat beds are usually welded to the cross members of the bed and bolted to the frame on the truck

 

[MasterBlaster]

I think it's kinda cheesy for anything but the lightest of loads.

 

[SkwerI]

They work fine on a flat bed. Sticking a hoist in between a truck frame and a standard pickup bed will result in a twisted bed. You would have to weld up a sub frame to support the pickup bed.

 

[darkstar]

Yuk, i would not want anyone to see me driving it ...
Uber chese mongrel.
Get a good big bad pto driven dump.

 

[Monkeywithasaw]

but that big bad truck cant get up super small driveways and if your not doing 10 + palms per stop then that big truck is eating your profits

 

[Koa Man]

I did a job this past Monday and Tuesday that had just enough room for my pickup to fit. Loaded the pickup 3 times with 4 ft. sides to haul out all the debris and we chopped up the branches really small and stepped it down. Went on the scale at the dump and the loads were all between 1100 and 1250 lbs. With that, I figured 2000 lbs. is plenty. 2000 lbs. is the manufacturer's rating for the structural components with a margin for safety. It will pick up and dump more. They have pictures of a Boxer miniskid loaded with that mini hooklift dump.

 

[sotc]

i requested quotes

 

[Koa Man]

The Choremaster box and hoist is $4881.00.

 

[Treevet]

Those Truck Craft dump inserts are awful nice looking. All stainless steel. But at around $7200. hard to swallow. You see them all the time on city trucks where the city buyer is not spending his money but the public's.

Pickup insert would be nice to have for me so I could throw a half cord on after work and get $150 cash money along with the full cord I generally put in the dump trailer to sell. Have the GM throw a load on and back up to the end of their drive way dump it off, grab the $ out of their hands and drive away laughing.

 

[vharrison]

Koa Man, I am just glad to see you back in the game!

 

[TreeDimensional]

I picked this one up used for about 2 grand (LOL $1600US).

 

[sotc]

Nice

 

[Koa Man]

Well I did it. Ordered my AmeriDeck dump system today. I am getting the Super Deck with mesh sides. (See picture below.) The other two pictures are of the Super Deck with out the mesh sides attached. Having it shipped to MA to be put in the container with my 23GT. Shipping is only $575 that way. If sent directly to HI shipping cost would be close to $4K.

I am also getting 3 orchard ladders put in the container too. Along with some fiberglass pruning poles. May as well get all the big expensive stuff to ship put in that flat rate 40 ft. container.

 

[Bodean]

mine dumps 4K lbs, 1900 bucks, labor and materials installed.

Just uses the pickup bed, been about a year, no probs so far..