Posted by VADAVE on October 27, 2007 at 05:37:36 from (70.177.170.237):
In Reply to: Help Me Think posted by Allan In NE on October 27, 2007 at 04:20:11:
Why does it have to be tongue and groove? I've got two trucks; one a straight truck, 10 wheeler, and the tailgate is 3/4 plywood with a steel cross hatch strengthener. The other is an 18 wheeler--tailgate is 2X6 treated lumber. Didn't need to be treated was just what was laying around, but I have never seen treat lumber be anything but pine. Either way works. Strong enough you ask--well the way our trucks are emptied at the elevators is you run onto a lift platform and the elevator tips the whole truck. So the whole weight of the load sits on the tailgate. These boards hold it. That 18 wheeler holds 1000 bu, and yeah she over 80K loaded.
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