{"id":83,"date":"2008-05-27T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:24","slug":"truck-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/truck-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City, a mere 35 miles from here, is the center of the universe.  Or, so you would think if you were a Wall Street wizard, or a Broadway performer. If you&#8217;re a wooden boat builder, you are outside of any respectable lumber yard&#8217;s delivery radius. &#8220;Sure, we got it. Come pick it up buddy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ww-truck-rack-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ww-truck-rack-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"truck rack\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Being a homeowner who fixes stuff, I already own a pickup truck. Simple, add a rack and go to the lumber yards. Whoa, have you seen the price of utility racks? An affordable answer is in an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workbenchmagazine.com\/main\/wb300-rack01.html\">Workbench Magazine<\/a>. It outlines a utility rack that&#8217;s plenty substantial enough for my occasional use and comes in at about one third the cost of pre-built racks. The ladder in the picture is 12 feet long, the same size as the boat I&#8217;ll be building.<\/p>\n<p>The astute observer now knows why I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=76\">cutting bevels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to show a larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City, a mere 35 miles from here, is the center of the universe. Or, so you would think if you were a Wall Street wizard, or a Broadway performer. If you&#8217;re a wooden boat builder, you are outside of any respectable lumber yard&#8217;s delivery radius. &#8220;Sure, we got it. Come pick it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-woodworking","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8286,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}