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Re: Tools: Kayak hauling options for trucks
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 3/28/2011, 12:38 am
In Response To: Re: Tools: Kayak hauling options for trucks (Charles Robinson)

: If you have a tow bar hookup, you could put a rack on that and a
: cheap rack on the cab. You might want to check out Barrecrafters
: or some of the companies that make ladder racks. I don't have a
: cap on my p/u and I use ladder racks with the foam kayak saddles
: taped to the cross bars and then the yaks strapped down to the
: cross bars. I have seen a lot of p/u's with caps and a ladder
: rack on top. Good luck.

: Charles Robinson

Years ago, before the Yakima's and Thule's were widely available I made a T bar for the reciever hitch on my then pickup. Used a bicycle rack adapter that fit the reciever and then crafted the rest from 3/4" square steel tubing. Worked fine (even with my lousy welding) and was cheap. That and a cheap roof rack on the cab worked for many years. Could manufacture a simple crossbar for the cap just as easily.

That said, the minicell foam canoe supports work fine if you're not going to be going at freeway speeds.

Bill H.

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Tools: Kayak hauling options for trucks
Todd O -- 3/27/2011, 11:12 am
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Charles Robinson -- 3/27/2011, 1:04 pm
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David Bynoe -- 3/27/2011, 1:34 pm
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Todd O -- 3/27/2011, 3:25 pm
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Simeon -- 3/27/2011, 10:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2011, 12:48 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/28/2011, 3:51 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2011, 12:38 am
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RichT -- 3/27/2011, 2:15 pm
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Todd O -- 3/27/2011, 3:27 pm
Re: Tools: Kayak hauling options for trucks *PIC*
StephenHJ -- 3/28/2011, 2:29 am
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Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 3/27/2011, 3:05 pm
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Todd O -- 3/27/2011, 3:30 pm
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Kudzu -- 3/27/2011, 10:17 pm
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Todd O -- 3/27/2011, 10:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2011, 12:52 am
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Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 3/28/2011, 8:29 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 3/28/2011, 2:44 pm
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KenSutherland -- 3/27/2011, 10:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2011, 12:56 am
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KenSutherland -- 3/29/2011, 1:42 am