That tailgate looks great! I also like the reuse of burned motor oil. Been doing that for decades. Even the state used to put it on the roads until the tree huggers complained. We used it on the shop dirt floor and after a few layers it was hard as a rock. Put it on hay wagons, manure spreaders, etc. to help lub and prevent corrosion. Good rust prevention on the under carraige as well.
You were not lying about there being no videos on how to build a tailgate. Yours is the first and honestly I never thought about attaching bed frame as a support for the frame. Im gonna hinge mine so I can use it as a work surface. Thankyou My Brother.
No problem! The bed frame is what I had on hand, and over time became an "inside joke" on this truck project with the rough old roots. As we used it for everything. This tailgate, repairing the frame, securing the wooden bed etc.
There is a quote from Tolkien that is always in the back of my mind.. "Woah! Sam Gamgee, your legs are too short, so use your head!" Thus far it has served me well! :)
Super fantastic! I lost my tailgate and a big truck ran over it. Your tailgate is the perfect solution. Looking forward to seeing more of your super videos. I’m subscribed!
Anytime! By the time we was done the truck wasn't anything like when it started! And now we've got a new one we're working on! Hope to count you along for the journey!
WOW! What a nice looking tailgate! Now you can replace the rest of the Pickup bed with wood. Maybe the Hood? Front fenders? Ah! turn the whole truck into a Woody. :-)
I had this idea several years back after someone stole my tailgate, but could never find any info or anyone that had actually done it.this was an awesome vid and the tailgate looks great. I might actually try it after watching your vid.😎👍
Thanks! We ended up turning this truck into something totally different, wooden bed Keg gas tank you name it! It's now sold and I'm trying to pick up an old 60s F350 to work on next... Welcome to the journey!
That tailgate makes the truck look significantly better; surprisingly so. Maybe because it makes the truck look more than well used. It also looks well loved. I’m here from Green Acre Homestead. You remind me of so many guys I grew up with in Missouri, but you are probably harder working than most of them.
Welcome to the Journey! You should watch pee and corn flakes next.. then the wood bed build haha! Were always up to something around here. There are lots of videos on our tiny house.. we're almost able to move in
Damn good idea. Hell I was wondering what I was going to do with my busted tailgate on my F350 truck at the ranch. I’ll do mine Texas style! Love it! Great job!
I wish the guy on TH-cam last week build a tailgate out of a beautiful piece of cedar install the hardware including the handle and latches and it opened and operated exactly like a regular tailgate
The best place to get cheap cedar is actually at Lowe's. Go to the garden center and look at the fence slats. I've got a couple hundred that I picked up in cull packs.. but I worked there for quite a while, regardless couple bucks each isn't bad for some decent cedar
Hahaha. Appalachian Red Maple tailgate will be the longest lasting thing on this truck. That made me giggle!! It looks great. I'm enjoying the channel. Love from Jersey...
How this channel doesn't have more subs I'll never know 😂 This shi is great they want $500 used for a tailgate on my 04 Tundra and $800 new! For just the shell fuck that I'm making one of these 😅
Haha! It did its job well! As for subscribers we're lucky to have as many as we do, but I would have thought with this many videos we'd have had a few more LOL Welcome to the journey!
That truck has two components that will outlive all of us: first... that heat-treated, oil-tempered wooden tailgate will still bead water in 200 years. Second: I assume that motor is a 300-c.i. inline six? Best goddamn medium-duty truck engine EVER. I plan to drive mine into the ground. It's a 1993 with over 200K miles and it will literally pull a house. Whatcha got on that beast??
You got that right! It had about as many miles as yours did, 4 speed transmission with Granny gear it was a heck of a truck! Even if it looked nothing like it did after I got done with it haha Finally sold it to a man to fund this new truck we just got... Didn't take him long to break the transmission in it by trying to pull stumps... guess they aren't invincible! Haha but still awesome! Just keep an eye on the frame. Had to weld this one..
Very nice job - I like it a lot! It almost, kind of, sorta, looks - just a little bit, mind - like a flag that is famously displayed on the roof of a certain orange Dodge Charger of a 1969 vintage... If ever the box rusts out, you will have to build yourself a wooden flat deck with drop down side gates to match that tailgate. I know I'm getting carried away here, but, you could take the rest of your buddy's bed frame (he's just going to have to get used to sleeping at floor level) and make yourself a headache rack for behind the cab in such a way that your new tailgate will drop down into it for storage (and back window protection...) for when you find yourself hauling home a roadside find that needs to poke out of the back some distance. I know, that's crazy talk - I'll go put myself to bed now.
Not sure there is any such thing as crazy talk on this channel! I had plans to make a wood bed for it, but money is tight right now! I do have to pull it off and address some rust and gas tank issues next though.. (give a mouse a cookie) haha
Awesome tailgate! Too good for a ford or chevy. Need an old IH truck for that tailgate! And if you wanted a tailgate that will last forever and be passed on from one truck to the next, then hedge (osage orange) is the wood for you! Or black locust. But heck, hedge fence posts last a good 200 years or more.
have plans to make a wooden bed one day, break out my little saw mill and use local hardwood. For now this one is in decent enough shape to get along with.
@@SteepintheWoods: Do you have any hedge in your area? Or black locust? With either one it is a good idea to cut fresh and then set out to dry. Especially the hedge. Do NOT want to cut hedge fully dried out unless you are into sacrificing blades!
This outta be an Ocea instructional video 😼 'now this is how you do er.' 'Take this fellar here.' So safe you might as well throw them helmets in the trash can 👷♂️
@@SteepintheWoods I made one just like it today and it just so turned out that way like even after watching the video I figured I'd already had a tailgate. Was a bit too big so I took the bottom end of a wooden bench , took the legs off of the seating planks ; skilsaw'd the ends off just wide enough to slide right into the end of the truck bed. (First timer on a skilsaw and also it's to a trailer I resurrected from an abandoned houses woods. A truck bed trailer. Didn't have a tailgate well guess what buckaroo 🤝 my buddy even had a spray paint called 'charcoal oil something' so I painted after taking the trailer in and around town. And to work. And to think this was all by coincidence.. crazy bro. Keep posting if you feel like doing so you're videos are awesome!
I’ve got to admit,that tailgate looks good on your truck. Can’t wait for more videos!
This guy's my kinda people! He makes it happen without a bunch of slick tools or unnecessary complications. Get'r done!
That tailgate looks great! I also like the reuse of burned motor oil. Been doing that for decades. Even the state used to put it on the roads until the tree huggers complained. We used it on the shop dirt floor and after a few layers it was hard as a rock. Put it on hay wagons, manure spreaders, etc. to help lub and prevent corrosion. Good rust prevention on the under carraige as well.
speaking of rust.. next step is pulling off the bed to address some frame and gas tank rust.. probally end up pulling out my little welder..
You were not lying about there being no videos on how to build a tailgate. Yours is the first and honestly I never thought about attaching bed frame as a support for the frame. Im gonna hinge mine so I can use it as a work surface. Thankyou My Brother.
No problem!
The bed frame is what I had on hand, and over time became an "inside joke" on this truck project with the rough old roots. As we used it for everything.
This tailgate, repairing the frame, securing the wooden bed etc.
Thank u. I’ll b doing this w my son later 👍
Will be doing this with my ‘84 d150… thanks for the vidya
No problem! Welcome to the journey!!!
I love people that can make it work! ❤️
There is a quote from Tolkien that is always in the back of my mind..
"Woah! Sam Gamgee, your legs are too short, so use your head!"
Thus far it has served me well! :)
Super fantastic! I lost my tailgate and a big truck ran over it. Your tailgate is the perfect solution. Looking forward to seeing more of your super videos. I’m subscribed!
Farm out! That's a niiiiiice look tailgate!
Appalachian Red Maple? You a trip!
"Farm out"?!?! You must be a sixties hippy! lol
Right arm!
@@jesusislord2457: Gravey man, gravey! Like, totally outta state!
Some asshole stole my tailgate over the weekend. I now have a project to build me a replacement similar to video. Thanks for the idea.
Mann, ohh man.. what a beautiful bud.
Cool deal thanks for video I'll build the same.
Well done. I'm going to use your idea on my truck. Thanks!
Anytime!
By the time we was done the truck wasn't anything like when it started! And now we've got a new one we're working on!
Hope to count you along for the journey!
Looks good. I need to do something similar with my truck because I'm not trying to spend a lot of money.
That's the name of the game!
I’m going to try this, thanks for the great video!!
North Carolina plates . Nice tail gate
WOW! What a nice looking tailgate! Now you can replace the rest of the Pickup bed with wood. Maybe the Hood? Front fenders? Ah! turn the whole truck into a Woody. :-)
I had this idea several years back after someone stole my tailgate, but could never find any info or anyone that had actually done it.this was an awesome vid and the tailgate looks great. I might actually try it after watching your vid.😎👍
When life gives you lemons!
Thank you so much man I’ve had this same idea to do for my 76 Dodge W100 but could never find anything like it. Great video👍👍
Thanks!
We ended up turning this truck into something totally different, wooden bed Keg gas tank you name it!
It's now sold and I'm trying to pick up an old 60s F350 to work on next...
Welcome to the journey!
That right there is BADASSERY at its finest! Great job brother, I will be building one for my 75 F150. Thanks
You're very welcome! Hope to see you along for the journey.
You are a lot of fun! Real talented too!
That tailgate makes the truck look significantly better; surprisingly so. Maybe because it makes the truck look more than well used. It also looks well loved.
I’m here from Green Acre Homestead. You remind me of so many guys I grew up with in Missouri, but you are probably harder working than most of them.
Welcome to the Journey!
You should watch pee and corn flakes next.. then the wood bed build haha!
Were always up to something around here.
There are lots of videos on our tiny house.. we're almost able to move in
Damn good idea. Hell I was wondering what I was going to do with my busted tailgate on my F350 truck at the ranch. I’ll do mine Texas style! Love it! Great job!
Man ive done gon and made myself one, i love the darn thing! Great vid man, keep making things
I'll keep on keeping on my man! Rest assured!
Loved im making me one myself today thats lit af looks like a rebel flag sweet
Nice!!
Welcome to the journey!!
Turned out nice
I wish the guy on TH-cam last week build a tailgate out of a beautiful piece of cedar install the hardware including the handle and latches and it opened and operated exactly like a regular tailgate
The best place to get cheap cedar is actually at Lowe's. Go to the garden center and look at the fence slats. I've got a couple hundred that I picked up in cull packs.. but I worked there for quite a while, regardless couple bucks each isn't bad for some decent cedar
Shou Sugi Ban and burnt earl...I love it..😁🤣
You remind me of the Character Brad Pitt played in Inglorious Bastards
& I WANT MY SCALPS
Keep it going man
Absolutely love it! Awesome job keep up the good work! Look forward to more!
next is frame work and possible repair.. not looking forward to pulling off the bed!
That was great
I wonder of you can find washers snapped like stars? Be a cool rebel flag tailgate. Great video buddy..
That was the idea!
Surely someone makes them..
@@SteepintheWoods probably find some on the interwebs. Maybe in the Amazon? Lol
just what i needed. ty.
Luv ya....thanks for the tailgate...I want mine to flip out level....instant mini porch aka extension
Most bed frames are hardened steel. That’s why it takes a few extra grunts to drill through it
Ya that sucker was stupid hard.. Need some better still bits as well
I like this guy
Great video. I've been looking for some ideas on how to do my whole bed. Greetings from WV my Appalachian brotha.
Welcome! I ended up replacing mine with a wood bed. kept the tailgate though! Did a video on it.
Alright, alright, I subscribed.
Nice.
Welcome to the journey!
Hahaha. Appalachian Red Maple tailgate will be the longest lasting thing on this truck. That made me giggle!! It looks great. I'm enjoying the channel. Love from Jersey...
Thank you!
How this channel doesn't have more subs I'll never know 😂 This shi is great they want $500 used for a tailgate on my 04 Tundra and $800 new! For just the shell fuck that I'm making one of these 😅
Haha!
It did its job well! As for subscribers we're lucky to have as many as we do, but I would have thought with this many videos we'd have had a few more LOL
Welcome to the journey!
Pretty cool man.
Nice tailgate. I like that Appalachian red maple lol.
That truck has two components that will outlive all of us: first... that heat-treated, oil-tempered wooden tailgate will still bead water in 200 years.
Second: I assume that motor is a 300-c.i. inline six? Best goddamn medium-duty truck engine EVER. I plan to drive mine into the ground. It's a 1993 with over 200K miles and it will literally pull a house.
Whatcha got on that beast??
You got that right! It had about as many miles as yours did, 4 speed transmission with Granny gear it was a heck of a truck! Even if it looked nothing like it did after I got done with it haha
Finally sold it to a man to fund this new truck we just got... Didn't take him long to break the transmission in it by trying to pull stumps... guess they aren't invincible! Haha but still awesome!
Just keep an eye on the frame. Had to weld this one..
I'm gonna do this to my 88 ranger
apalachian red maple lmao .. Fn great
Very nice job - I like it a lot! It almost, kind of, sorta, looks - just a little bit, mind - like a flag that is famously displayed on the roof of a certain orange Dodge Charger of a 1969 vintage...
If ever the box rusts out, you will have to build yourself a wooden flat deck with drop down side gates to match that tailgate. I know I'm getting carried away here, but, you could take the rest of your buddy's bed frame (he's just going to have to get used to sleeping at floor level) and make yourself a headache rack for behind the cab in such a way that your new tailgate will drop down into it for storage (and back window protection...) for when you find yourself hauling home a roadside find that needs to poke out of the back some distance. I know, that's crazy talk - I'll go put myself to bed now.
Not sure there is any such thing as crazy talk on this channel! I had plans to make a wood bed for it, but money is tight right now! I do have to pull it off and address some rust and gas tank issues next though.. (give a mouse a cookie) haha
Good stuff
Cool intelligent handsome man. ❤
Nice job. I say you do a new front grille to match (obviously leaving an X or [] pattern for air flow).
That would be cool! We picked up a 1964 F-350 for our next project. It also needs a new bed.
Awesome tailgate! Too good for a ford or chevy. Need an old IH truck for that tailgate!
And if you wanted a tailgate that will last forever and be passed on from one truck to the next, then hedge (osage orange) is the wood for you! Or black locust. But heck, hedge fence posts last a good 200 years or more.
have plans to make a wooden bed one day, break out my little saw mill and use local hardwood. For now this one is in decent enough shape to get along with.
@@SteepintheWoods: Do you have any hedge in your area? Or black locust? With either one it is a good idea to cut fresh and then set out to dry. Especially the hedge. Do NOT want to cut hedge fully dried out unless you are into sacrificing blades!
looks great man.
Fun to watch as usual!
I got an 95 f250, im making a wooden bed and tail gate as well.
Nice! I ended up going with a wooden bed as well.
How did you install the Latches and hinges?
We use a bed frame, it's in the video.
New subscriber.... Saw you on Green Acre Homestead.
Welcome to the journey!
Liked and subbed. Love it
Welcome to the Journey!
@@SteepintheWoods Glad to be along for the ride!
Got my sub
Appalachian Red Maple......LOL
just got the tailgate stolen on my 2008 gmc sierra... minimum 500cad replacement value... shall focus on your video... please help if possible.
I already have haha this is an old video! Hopefully we can count you along for the Journey!
I got a 90 f150 custom long bed
We just picked up a 64 f350! Got to love a project!
Bad ass!
You should have keep that twenty in the beer fund cuase around here we can get that off the side of the road.
Great job! I think we may be cousins or Somethin.
You never know!
I saw the same video he talks about in the beginning just before this one...
Whats that lumber?
Privacy fence pickets! Around $1.49 each around here.
Thanks buddy
Anytime!
We would be best friends if we knew each other. Lmao
This outta be an Ocea instructional video 😼 'now this is how you do er.' 'Take this fellar here.' So safe you might as well throw them helmets in the trash can 👷♂️
Haha! I was just trying to make the best out of this truck purchase!
Ended up doing a wooden bed as well.
@@SteepintheWoods I made one just like it today and it just so turned out that way like even after watching the video I figured I'd already had a tailgate. Was a bit too big so I took the bottom end of a wooden bench , took the legs off of the seating planks ; skilsaw'd the ends off just wide enough to slide right into the end of the truck bed. (First timer on a skilsaw and also it's to a trailer I resurrected from an abandoned houses woods. A truck bed trailer. Didn't have a tailgate well guess what buckaroo 🤝 my buddy even had a spray paint called 'charcoal oil something' so I painted after taking the trailer in and around town. And to work. And to think this was all by coincidence.. crazy bro. Keep posting if you feel like doing so you're videos are awesome!
5:08 yep
JUST WATCHED YOUR TAILGATE VIDEO! I'M SOLD! I'M OKIE ON RIDGE OVER AR RIVER! F 150 TOO! THANKS! YOU'D LIKE MY BACKWOODS SETUP! I SUBSCRIBED!
3/4inch sheet of plywood could not do the trick instead of boards?
It would absolutely work, just seal it well.
Paint, Thompson's, or motor oil.
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that old tail gate Looked heavy. as a small horse.
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Its 66 and 2 lines 👍📏
I like it but them crossbraces scream fer sum Stars&Bars Cl;-(P)
Ya didn't expect me to paint it rainbow now did ya? haha
Half of this is optional
HAHAHAH trex bit it