Wood Posts for Bed Corner Pockets, 1930 Pickup

[1930-Pickup]

I've looked around some but I can't find any off-the-shelf wood posts for a 1930 pickup bed. I've even talked with a couple of wood shops but their pricing says the're not very interested.

The four bed pockets are 1 1/4 x 2 inches. I would like to find some hardwood posts around 14 inches long so I can use them as cargo tie-off's.

Any ideas on an easy and inexpensive way to find some posts?

[Charlie Stephens]

Put your general location in your profile (and in this case your post) and maybe someone will suggest a place that would do the work reasonable.

Charlie Stephens

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens

Put your general location in your profile (and in this case your post) and maybe someone will suggest a place that would do the work reasonable.

Charlie Stephens

Good idea Charlie, thanks

Location: Huntington Beach, CA

[Marvin/TN]

See if you can find a wood working club in your area. I am sure someone would be glad to make them for you. I would do it for you but we have most of the country between us. Also check with a cabinet Shop. I would do it for no cost if you furnished the wood. I have a friend up the mountain above Chico that could do it but I understand Hard wood is expensive out your way.

[CarlG]

Snyder's:

http://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/side-boards

[2manycars]

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I made these out of scrap wood from my wood shop. My son made the boards for the green pickup.
I used countersunk T nuts so I could bolt the stakes in tightly, to stop rattles, and keep the sideboards a bit above the painted bed, to save the paint.

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by CarlG

Snyder's:

http://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/side-boards

That's side boards, not corner posts.

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by 1930-Pickup

That's side boards, not corner posts.

But, but, but, . . .

The side boards are held up by the corner posts, are they not?

[JDupuis]

An inexpensive way of hardwood posts, may be old hardwood skids. Great way of re-purposing the lumber. Good luck. Jeff

[Charlie Stephens]

Originally Posted by 1930-Pickup

Good idea Charlie, thanks

Location: Huntington Beach, CA

The location really helps. I am in Culver City and if faced with your problem I would call the "House of Hardwood" at (310) 479-4196 and ask for the price of oak wood milled to the size you specified. Try the yellow pages for hardwood in your area. A cheaper solution would be fir, birch or maybe oak if they have it from the local lumber yard milled (cut) by them to the size you specified. I would take the rough wood and sand it smooth and finish it. The sanding and finishing is probably where most of the cost is.

The attached photo shows one of the cargo tie downs on my '31 RDPU.

Charlie Stephens

[ModelAMike1930]

I used hardwood that I purchased at home depot and sanded them to fit.

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by CarlG

But, but, but, . . .

The side boards are held up by the corner posts, are they not?

That would cost $200, and I would only use the four posts.

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by ModelAMike1930

I used hardwood that I purchased at home depot and sanded them to fit.

Finding wood is not difficult...its the milling/sawing, especially if you have no access to wood working equipment, like me

[Big hammer]

Maybe a high school shop class could help you out?

[1930-Pickup]

When it comes to woodworking, I know my limitations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0

[springerpete]

Big Hammer has the correct solution. Get your measurements, get some wood and go see the teacher. This would be a good project for one of their students. Be sure to take your Model A to the school when you go for an extra attraction. Also, make the stakes a hair small as moisture will swell them some and someday you may want to remove them.

[Tom Wesenberg]

I agree with springerpete if you don't have a neighbor with a table saw. I just assumed half the people owned a table saw. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes on the table saw to have 4 corner posts, but then I'd add sideboards like Carl showed. That way you can tie off anywhere on the side. I bought some nice Maple boards at Menards to make my own floorboards for my 28 and early 29.

The students would enjoy seeing the truck and making the corner posts.

[1930-Pickup]

A few folks have suggested that I go to a school and get some students to do the job. At first glance this is a very reasonable suggestion. I think most of us grew up having taken some shop classes in school.

Times have changed I'm sad to say. Here in So Cal, the schools are pitiful. Oh sure, there are some good schools for the previewed few or the lucky ones, but mostly the schools don't offer much in the way of real world skills for the masses anymore.

Shop classes have been mostly gone for some time now. Hopefully now that the Great Recession is largely over, maybe more funding for shop classes and the arts can be allowcated.

[Big hammer]

Thats shameful about your schools! In my area I have seen piles of wooden pallets beside dumpsters, that is shameful also! My dad would save wood, cardboard, metal, etc. Once I was building a 22 ft wall for him and ran out of long boards. Told dad I needed to go to the lumberyard and spend some of his $. No he said, and he showed me who to scab shorter boards together and make them longer. He grew up in the Great Depression, they saved everything, like us saving model A's ! I was also taught to straighten out bent nails and reuse them. I joke dad was tight as bark on a tree, he was very giving with his knowledge

[CarlG]

Back when I was first married, still in college, and poor as a church mouse. The company I was working for had purchased a bunch of equipment that was made in Germany. All that equipment came on wooden pallets. Not just any of the junk pallets you see these days, but heavy duty solid oak pallets.

I salvaged all the pallets that I could. Talked my father-in-law to haul them over to our apartment in his pickup. Managed to build all sorts of things out of them, including a fence to contain our 1 yr old son.

[Steve Plucker]

Go to your local Home Depot...select the wood...and have them cut it for almost nothing...Or do you still want to do it cheaper than that? Then buy some sandpaper and refine the cuts and corners yourself. Then paint the post as you see fit...or not.

Pluck

[Charlie Stephens]

Originally Posted by Steve Plucker

Go to your local Home Depot...select the wood...and have them cut it for almost nothing...Or do you still want to do it cheaper than that? Then buy some sandpaper and refine the cuts and corners yourself. Then paint the post as you see fit...or not.

Pluck

Steve,

Your local Home Depot must be better equipped than mine. Mine only has a chop saw for cutting boards to length and a saw to cut plywood sheets. What he needs is a table saw which I find locally only in "real" lumber yards. Still even at a lumber yard it should be cheap.

Charlie Stephens

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens

Steve,

Your local Home Depot must be better equipped than mine. Mine only has a chop saw for cutting boards to length and a saw to cut plywood sheets. What he needs is a table saw which I find locally only in "real" lumber yards. Still even at a lumber yard it should be cheap.

Charlie Stephens

Of the several lumber supply shops that I checked (including HD), only one came close (Ganahl Lumber) at $80 for oak cut to size. This is not cheap for 4 wood sticks.

To simply go have some cut means that a supply yard would need to stock either 5/4 or 8/4 hardwood, and most yards around here don't. Even if they have it (like Ganahl), they wont cut up a longer board to only sell me a couple of feet...so the material cost goes sky high.

[abachman3]

Someone near you has to have either a table saw or a radial arm saw. Start with oak 2 x 4 inch material and just rip it to your dimensions. It really is not a big job at all.

[CHuDWah]

Originally Posted by 1930-Pickup

Of the several lumber supply shops that I checked (including HD), only one came close (Ganahl Lumber) at $80 for oak cut to size. This is not cheap for 4 wood sticks.

Does it have to be oak? For example, the Home Depot website lists a 2" x 3" x 8' kiln dried pine stud for $2.05. "Real" lumber yards probably have similar. Even if you have to pay someone to rip it to 1-1/4" x 2" and cut it to 14" length, it'll be way less than $80. Yes, it's not as strong or pretty or durable as oak. But unless you're hauling more than you should in an A, it should do for tie-downs. It doesn't look bad stained/varnished or painted. And for the difference in cost, you can replace it plenty of times if it wears out.

[GPierce]

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I called the local hobby wood workers supply. They whacked a piece white oak off a board 2-1/2"x12"x8' that I could cut to make the posts. They even offered to cut them to size.
I thought boy this will break the bank. The bill was sixteen dollars and some change and that was six months ago.

Of course my wife spent another forty dollars before I could get her out of the place.

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by GPierce

I called the local hobby wood workers supply. They whacked a piece white oak off a board 2-1/2"x12"x8' that I could cut to make the posts. They even offered to cut them to size.
I thought boy this will break the bank. The bill was sixteen dollars and some change and that was six months ago.

You're in the land of fine music.
I'm in the land of fruits and nuts.

[Mike V. Florida]

Maybe Timber Fields Woodworks at 17451 Nichols Ln, Westminster, CA 92683 can help. Drive the truck up so they can see what needs to be done.

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by Mike V. Florida

Maybe Timber Fields Woodworks at 17451 Nichols Ln, Westminster, CA 92683 can help. Drive the truck up so they can see what needs to be done.

That's a pretty good local find, especially from Florida

I've tried a couple custom shops like that but each time the job is too small for their interest.

Fortunately one of the Barn forum members has offered me some of his left-over material, and it's ready to use! Its not a done deal yet, but it's very close. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

[1931 flamingo]

Buy a couple 6 packs of beer, buy your wood, find a new house under construction and I'll bet you can get the wood cut for free. FWIW
Paul in CT

[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by 1930-Pickup

Fortunately one of the Barn forum members has offered me some of his left-over material, and it's ready to use! Its not a done deal yet, but it's very close. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Many thanks to George for his help in obtaining some wood posts. They work great!
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/member.php?u=507

[1930-Pickup]

Thanks again to all of you for your help, especially George.
Here is a photo of the finished project:

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[Ted Duke]

Shop classes like you and I, old folks, took are seldom in the high school now. They are most times available. Huntington Beach has a hell of a lot more than was offered me back in the dark ages.

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[1930-Pickup]

Originally Posted by Ted Duke

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Coastline is a Jr. Collage that's held in local high school rooms; there is no Coastline campus per se. It's open to some high school students, but it's not a program offered in high schools.