[Oletrucks] wood livestock rack for flatbed

[Gale Gorman]

I had an uncle who hauled cattle and built his own sideboards. He used oak and assembled the parts with carriage bolts. All members had all four edges eased with a router. The post were a full 2x3 and the rails or slats 1x3. My memory has the gap between slats at 4". Cab height seems a bit short. You can buy the hardware to lock each panel and the corners together. His main truck was 40' long with a couple of shorter 20' bobtails. He also occasionally swapped out the cattle racks for solid sideboards to haul grain or feed.

Gale Gorman
Houston

On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Paul Bytheway wrote:

Morning everyone,

               I just stumbled upon a 56 3/4 ton with a flatbed on it.  Since
it has the flatbed on it, I would like to give it a old farm truck look by
building a wood livestock rack.  I have been looking for pictures online to
model my design after, but cannot find any.  Does anyone on the group know of
any website to look at with something similar, or maybe have some pictures of
their own?  I would like the rack to be approximately the same height of my
cab or just a little taller.

thanks a ton in advance


Paul Bytheway
Regulatory Tech
Schreiber Foods Inc. Smithfield Utah Plant
2180 West 6550 North
Smithfield, Utah 84335
Phone: (435) 563-9340 ext. 5645
Paul.Bytheway at schreiberfoods.com<mailto:Paul.Bytheway at schreiberfoods.com>