What did you HAUL in your JT today?

[XJADDICTION]

Hadn’t bought lumber since the apparent apocalypse-driven price increase. Pretty pricey right now!

And thanks. Few more things I’d like to do to the truck but definitely love it. Looks like you’re running bed cover and rack for bikes? Using the KB Voodoo mounts or something else? I like being able to roll up the cover and have the entire bed available, so thinking those are the only mounts to go with?

Early Gladiators didn’t have many options for bed hauling and I was stuck with some extra time during COVID so I made my own setup based around a free bedrack I got from my B-In-law.

Yes Voodoo is one offering now but check out bed-rack forum for more options.

I decided to go my route after using hitch mount bike rack for my mountain bikes. Someone almost rear ended me
In traffic which would have taken out my expensive bike. So I put it in the bed and had to have tailgate down to fit mountain bikes (they have Maxels so no front axle quick release).

So ?, how to carry my mountain bikes safely, carry 16ft lumber for home projects (I agree lumber is so ridiculously priced now) kayaks, my 7ft Yakima Sky Box and make the bed useful and secure with the locking tailgate.

With current set up I can carry at the same time, 2 kayaks, 4 bikes, 7’ Yakima Sky Box and secure everything in the bed in rolling totes currently (building drawers eventually) in the truck. If I need to haul my dirt bike, 4 wheelers get mulch etc I have a trailer for that. All of the bike mounts are
Attached with Yakima gutter mount spacers I took off of mounts, this holds the cross bars vertically on bed. I made steel spacers to lift bars a bit to get bike mounts attached to bars on a hard plywood cover painted with medium texture deck paint. Under the plywood I added steel plates with drilled holes to spread out the load on the 3/4” plywood for the mounted bikes.

I have about $250 in this build (I already had all of the Yakima Stuff except the Sky Box which I paid $100.00 bucks for off of FB and it came with Yakima cross bars and SUV roof rack mounts not used for this project but was a deal! ) The ladder rack was free and I cut to lower cross bars to match the attached Yakima gutter mount bar on the cab. One year later, thousands of miles carrying stuff, it still works great and bed cover is sealed so no water gets in.

I made side mount brackets to carry bikes outside of tack for my eventual roof top tent addition.

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[JT850]

Looks like you might be building a hunting blind?

Pretty much! Built a platform about 8' high and 5'x5' to bow hunt out of.

 

[smw17gladiator]

Early Gladiators didn’t have many options for bed hauling and I was stuck with some extra time during COVID so I made my own setup based around a free bedrack I got from my B-In-law.

Yes Voodoo is one offering now but check out bed-rack forum for more options.

I decided to go my route after using hitch mount bike rack for my mountain bikes. Someone almost rear ended me
In traffic which would have taken out my expensive bike. So I put it in the bed and had to have tailgate down to fit mountain bikes (they have Maxels so no front axle quick release).

So ?, how to carry my mountain bikes safely, carry 16ft lumber for home projects (I agree lumber is so ridiculously priced now) kayaks, my 7ft Yakima Sky Box and make the bed useful and secure with the locking tailgate.

With current set up I can carry at the same time, 2 kayaks, 4 bikes, 7’ Yakima Sky Box and secure everything in the bed in rolling totes currently (building drawers eventually) in the truck. If I need to haul my dirt bike, 4 wheelers get mulch etc I have a trailer for that. All of the bike mounts are
Attached with Yakima gutter mount spacers I took off of mounts, this holds the cross bars vertically on bed. I made steel spacers to lift bars a bit to get bike mounts attached to bars on a hard plywood cover painted with medium texture deck paint. Under the plywood I added steel plates with drilled holes to spread out the load on the 3/4” plywood for the mounted bikes.

I have about $250 in this build (I already had all of the Yakima Stuff except the Sky Box which I paid $100.00 bucks for off of FB and it came with Yakima cross bars and SUV roof rack mounts not used for this project but was a deal! ) The ladder rack was free and I cut to lower cross bars to match the attached Yakima gutter mount bar on the cab. One year later, thousands of miles carrying stuff, it still works great and bed cover is sealed so no water gets in.

I made side mount brackets to carry bikes outside of tack for my eventual roof top tent addition.

That’s awesome. So much more if the functionality I’m looking for than what I’ve seen on the market. May end up trying to fab something myself. And may steal some of your ideas.

 

[Bantam]

Don’t have a picture in the truck, but hauled the rollaway home. Might have fit in an SUV laying down with the seats folded, but at 175lbs would have been a chore.

 

[XJADDICTION]

That’s awesome. So much more if the functionality I’m looking for than what I’ve seen on the market. May end up trying to fab something myself. And may steal some of your ideas.

If you have any questions or need more detailed pictures pm me and Let me know. I love this set up.

 

[TxSmitty]

Took the kids kayaks and out paddle boards to the lake.

 

[ReverendZ]

I did a thing! Towed a 65 Skylark home from a friends. 16mpg at 65, hardly felt it back there!

 

[Nick1941]

1,800 pounds of allen block Cap Block for a patio project had her squatting pretty low today. Yes I know it was over capacity...

 

[Garemlin]

My granddaughters birthday party.

 

[WillysRubicon]

Pratt and Whitney model B (~5500lb with trailer) and Smithy Granite Mill/Lathe combo machine and stand in the bed (~750lb).

Yes.. it was almost sitting on bumpstops and likely over capacity. But have to work with what you have sometimes and I must say the Gladiator did not disappoint. No issues whatsoever.

15mpg at 70mph from Baton Rouge to Chattanooga.

 

[Nick1941]

1/2 Ton of crushed concrete for a patio project

 

[Artsifrtsi]

1 pallet of LVT, 30 cases total ~1200lbs…

 

[Benbean66]

Hauled a friend's '46 CJ2A from PA to upstate NY.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Nine tires & rims in bed, another tire in back seat.

Trading the nearly new 255/70 Falken Wild Peaks from my soon-to-be-sold '17 JK two door to my son-in-law for his Gladiator California Edition. It's pretty bare bones but these tires make it look a lot better, more aggressive.

 

[BoatDude]

YZ450 & TTR110

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