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Originally Posted by kimtree  yes you can however thats the old truck the new got a tray 17' x 8' and i'd prefer to load over the side |
A little bit similar to your loader I used to load logs over sides with winch truck in avatar into truck in picture I posted earlier. This worked fine but I couldn t chip into it and like your bed, it is way too large for a removable body (over tray). It also restricted how much I could load and worry about stuff falling off was an issue. Had to ratchet strap stuff down. Hate extra work.
Best answer was to just bring stuff from in-property to my truck crane when nec with winch truck, and drop it and load over sides with truck crane. This way I was using large capacity of truck (and other truck I ve got as dual purpose). But top had to be made to use it's large capacity for holding chips without them blowing all over the road, etc.
Like I said I had a removable steel, bolt on, boom on top made. It is way too heavy to consider hand removal and I doubt you will be able to get over built up sides to center of such a large bed to center to do this with your loader. This leaves the choices of as I said earlier, tie down tarp (that will have a short life) or plywood 4x8 with maybe 2 pieces of channel sideways across them to keep from warping and maybe I am going to try eyebolts on ends so they can be ratchet straps on both sides to support and not blow off. You can only build sides as high as your loader will reach over obviously.
Love to hear if you come up with another idea. How about picture of truck?