I’ll never have another regular bed truck to work my farm. It cuts down drastically on my travel time. “The time savings are stacking up to an incredible degree. A football goal-style rack can be inserted in seconds into a front receiver to carry pipe or suction lines along the headache rack – no trailer required. At the end of the bed sits a vice – on-site no matter where Dulaney goes on the farm.ĭulaney has a Ranch Hand Bullnose front bumper on the Chevrolet 2500HD – no more worries about collision damage from deer or wild pigs across the operation. The bed is covered with a tough horse stall mat which prevents the sliding and bunching of normal truck mats. The compressor is easily removable: When Dulaney pulls a gooseneck, he takes out the four bolts, unplugs the power supply, and it’s off in minutes. On the passenger bed-side, and air compressor is mounted on a metal plate atop a rubber mat. Now I have a place to wash my hands in the middle of a field and I’ve always got clean water to rinse a part.” “I screwed in a hydraulic adapter and ball valve with a 1’ hose. On the backside of the K2 cooler, the drain plug is fitted with half-inch straight threads. The result was a skirted, KnapHeide flatbed on a 2015 Chevrolet 2500HD crewcab, rigged with farm tool essentials.īeside the hose reel sits a K2 cooler held by two eye bolts and turnbuckles to prevent sliding and theft. Dulaney did the labor by himself in the Gen 4 shop.
For six months he thought over the design, picked his placement, ordered the parts, and in just under two days, assembled what serves as a moving office. I kept asking myself, ‘Where can I make myself more efficient?’”Ī flatbed truck option made sense to Dulaney, but he knew tool placement was the key to efficiency. “Even if it was just a roll of poly, I’d have to use a trailer. The toolbox, along with an air compressor, took up most of the bed and left little room for hauling. A single trip out of the field carried little consequence, but over the course of a season, the efficiency waste mounted to a slow bleed that ultimately affected all areas of his operation.ĭulaney, who farms 4,000 acres with Gen 4 Farms in Clarksdale, Miss., was driving a typical large pickup with a Pack Rat toolbox in the bed. Dulaney, but he was losing time constantly running from field to shop.
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