Hi all. I am buying a new quad that will go in my box. Does anybody know how high from the ground the tailgate is when extended. 2008 Ford F150 Supercrew FX4. I only ask because I am far from home and can't measure myself.

 

at least 2 1/2 feet. my wife took mine earlier or i would measure.

 

Thanks GTNOS. Also does anybody already use ramps of a particular length that they really like? A friend of mine, his ramps were too short and he flipped. I wouldn't want to make the same mistake.

 

granted i dont do it often, if i did i would buy ramps, but when i need to load my riding lawn mower, i just back into a ditch. then its only a few inches. if i can get a rider over that, you should have no prob with a 4 wheeler. now if your moving it alot, then i guess you may want ramps. granted i live the in country with a ditch right across the street.....heck, in Oklahoma you can always find a ditch!

 

my brother got a trifold ramp from Harbor Freight and its not too bad.

I bought one off a friend and its a little better but I dont know where he bought it from. The main difference is that the HF one has 'fingers' at the top that go on the tailgate and mine has a solid piece of metal at the top.

Me and my brother both have F150's and quads.

We can lift the quads into the bed but its kinda awkward and takes two people. Unloading them is easy, we just yank them out and let the rear wheels hit the ground.

 

I use the ditch method as well, but I've seen some nice ramps, too. I'm just too cheap to pony up a couple hundred bucks for them.

 

I have an 07 FX4 and I can tell you from experience that you don't want to put your quad in the bed using 6' ramps. They are too short. The angle is definately going to be steep. I went as far as welding an additional 12" onto my ramps thinking that this would make it better....It didn't.

 

The ramps Ive got are fine and they must be 6' since they fit in my 6.5' bed with the tailgate up. Never an issue with too much of an angle.

The Harbor Freight ramps are less than $100, usually around $80 on sale.

 

We use the hill method here in Mississippi lol. The neighbor has a levee right next to our driveway that we just back the truck up to, and I think there is 2-3" in height difference. Certainly makes things quick and easy...

 

if i frequently was loading a 4wheeler in my truck, before i spent $200 on ramps, i would just get this for not much more:

http://www.harborfreight.com/automot...cessories.html

some plywood for the bed, no higher than it is, cut you a 10 foot 2x10 in half for a set of 5ft ramps that you could toss on the trailer or in the truck bed, fab up some tie downs and your good to go.

not only that, everyone i know that regularly load 4 wheelers in their truck has either f-d up their bed front, or cab, or both at some point. so using a trailer is easier on your truck. all it takes is too much throttle one time!!

i do know one guy who slammed his truck down low just so he could haul his sportbike to the track. that is another option, but not always a practical one.

 

if you go with ramps make sure to tie them down to the truck before you load it. Friend of mine didn't and ended up in the hospital when the ramps slipped off the tail gate. I bought mine from Tractor supply, 6ft trifold and they work well, about 135 if i remember, few years back. I use 2 pull straps to my bumper and never have a problem with them slipping

 

Ive got a trailer like that too and sometimes throw one quad in the bed and one on the trailer if Im going riding with somebody else.

I bought the trailer before I had a truck and after pulling it around a few times with a Hyundai Elantra I decided I wanted a truck so I traded the car in on my F150.