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Gene Owens · 03-10-2005, 05:40 AM

A salesman told me today that he has used stake pocket tie downs for an Artic Fox for "years". How do you folks respond to that?????? Thanks.

Gene Owens · 03-10-2005, 05:40 AM

A salesman told me today that he has used stake pocket tie downs for an Artic Fox for "years". How do you folks respond to that?????? Thanks.

BradW · 03-10-2005, 08:32 AM

Typical salesman.

Don and Sarah · 03-10-2005, 09:55 AM

Not on mine he wouldn't!

ArcticFox 860 · 03-10-2005, 01:30 PM

He must have over stocked on stake pocket ties! lol

CyberVet65 · 03-10-2005, 04:02 PM

With the price of pickup beds and the price of slide-ins today....I suspect that there were different way to tie these things down.
I have never seen a stake pocket tie down but I would like to see how it worked.
Chet

R. O. Walton, Jr. · 03-12-2005, 05:37 AM

A lot of early campers used a stake pocked system. That said I would not even think about using that type system on todays campers and pick up beds.

BigRedLancer · 03-12-2005, 04:12 PM

I had stake hole tie downs on my first turck/camper. It was an 8 1/2' cabover and the tie downs slipped into the stake hole and were angled down. It came with turnbuckles that attached to hooks on the camper. At the time I didn't think too much about the way it was attached. Now I would not want to use anything that could break so easily. I was lucky.

jmtandem · 11-12-2005, 05:54 PM

gene,

Tork Lifts, they mount to the frame, are very strong. Might want to use a spring mount to keep the tension from being too much for the camper when the truck flexes.