waterboy222
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I have had way too many beers to remember if I came up with this idea or if I saw it somewhere else, so Im not going to take credit for it (fully). If I remember right, a guy had made some beds similar to these except they had plywood instead of cloth and he put single size mattresses on it.. I took it a step further and had my boat canvas lady sew me up some "hammocks". The material is the same as what we around oklahoma call "dump truck tarp". There is a fancier name for it but the name leaves me at the moment. They use it on the backing of exterior boat cushions to allow moisture to fall through and keep things from rotting. Its extremely strong, like I said before its used to keep construction debris from blowing out of dump trucks. I had her line the pockets with sunbrella canvas because sliding the wood through them would prove to be a difficult chore without a smoother bore and nothing to snag on. I think I paid $120 to have both of them made and she did it while I waited, about 90 minutes..
I mounted two sets of e-track to the walls. They're screwed into the wood panels and into the steel frame of the trailer to make sure the guy on the bottom doesnt end up getting to second base with the guy on top unexpectedly in the middle of the night when it pulls out..
Amazon.com provided the shoring clips for the e-track. Its designed to have 2x4 or 2x6 boards nestled in them to keep your cargo from sliding around in a trailer. I bought 4 2x4x8's and routered the edges down smooth to keep any wood snags and bumped elbows at bay.
Turns out these are INCREDIBLY comfortable. You can move the shoring clips closer together to get a deeper hammock or you can move them further apart to make a tighter hammock (which I preferred for the space).
This is inside my 8x16 vnose run-of-the-mill-bought-off-ebay trailers from Tennessee, I think they're marketed under a dozen different names. It fits well with two bikes in the nose and can still set the beds up and sleep..
And the main reason I even have this trailer...
I mounted two sets of e-track to the walls. They're screwed into the wood panels and into the steel frame of the trailer to make sure the guy on the bottom doesnt end up getting to second base with the guy on top unexpectedly in the middle of the night when it pulls out..
Amazon.com provided the shoring clips for the e-track. Its designed to have 2x4 or 2x6 boards nestled in them to keep your cargo from sliding around in a trailer. I bought 4 2x4x8's and routered the edges down smooth to keep any wood snags and bumped elbows at bay.
Turns out these are INCREDIBLY comfortable. You can move the shoring clips closer together to get a deeper hammock or you can move them further apart to make a tighter hammock (which I preferred for the space).
This is inside my 8x16 vnose run-of-the-mill-bought-off-ebay trailers from Tennessee, I think they're marketed under a dozen different names. It fits well with two bikes in the nose and can still set the beds up and sleep..
And the main reason I even have this trailer...
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