Check Out My New Tank Rack

[coldcanbefun]

Ever since I was certified two decades ago I have used a junky old pallet in the bed of my truck to secure my tanks. The only good thing about a junky old pallet is that it is free and easily obtained, beyond that just about every other aspect of it sucks. It's not deep enough to stack two tanks end to end, and the slots are not deep enough to provide any real support for the tanks. So I finally decided to fix the situation and built something more suited to the task. Starting out I had a few requirements, it needed to be deep enough to stack two tanks end to end, it needed to be able to extend out of the bed of the truck so that I could easily access the back tanks, and it needed to have different sized rails to accommodate both normal and stage tanks. Here is what I came up with.

 

[lowwall]

Certainly looks convenient, but have you thought about the safety of this setup in a collision?

My friend got rear-ended hard last week while sitting at a red light in his classic C/K.

I'm not sure your tank valves would have survived a collision like this and then you'd have multiple missiles firing directly at you in the cab. There is a reason that commercial trucks are required to carry gas cylinders upright.

Even across the bed is much safer. Although they should be held down with something stronger than a bungee cord.

 

[Badger7]

Those look great! Maybe just add a couple d-rings on each side to really lock them down with a ratchet strap f you're doing any long-haul interstate travel?

 

[Imla]

The divemobile... Just for inspiration

 

[Badger7]

I'm not that fancy. Two sets of doubles fit just fine in the bed trunk of my Ridgeline.

 

[lowwall]

I'm not that fancy. Two sets of doubles fit just fine in the bed trunk of my Ridgeline.
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Wow. Looks like the trunk was made for that purpose.

 

[pdwh]

The divemobile... Just for inspiration

I've been looking at the cargo sliders for my Suburban for something like this.

 

[happy-diver]

Almost need to up your GVM with a cargo slider for this purpose, oh about a ton
and then put on a canopy, for all the room that you don't seem to have anymore


How nice is this from a piece of scaffold and stuff

 

[hroark2112]

One of my favorite lines….

Nice rack!!

 

[Badger7]

Wow. Looks like the trunk was made for that purpose.

Not gonna lie, looked at every midsize truck on the market, but I honestly made up my mind the first time I popped the trunk open in a Honda Ridgeline. Between the composite trunk with drainage and the fold-up rear seats, it quietly whispered "lets go diving".