Wall thickness for square tube bed frame.

[handloader90]

Planning on doing up a little trail bed for my truck out of 2x2 square tube.

I don't need much in terms of real estate, it will have a toolbox, Hi-lift, spare 37" tire, x2 Jerry cans and x2 5 gal fuel cans mounted to it.

What wall thickness would be considered best?

I was thinking .120 wall would be good enough for what I'm doing but figure I'd ask and see what everyone has to say.

From what I was looking at the next step up is 3/16", then 1/4". Seems like that would be adding excess weight for something that isn't really structural.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

.120"

 

[blazinzuk]

Yes .120

 

[FOR MUD]

.121

Just to be on the safe side..............

 

[swettysblazer]

I think I am running 3/16 1.5 inch square..... works fine for me.

 

[Stomis]

Yep 1/8 wall for sure. In fact I would go to 2x3 personally. Im not a fan of how rounded off the corners on 1/8 wall 2x2 are.

 

[Stephen]

Perimeter stuff will work well at 1/8" wall for dent resistance, interior stuff I'd consider 14ga. And you could go smaller than 2x2 also, we used a lot of 1.5" 14ga on our '99K2500 and it's working well. Weight adds up quick, keep a close eye on it.