Buckshotmckee

Want'in to add a headeache rack. Can anyone recommend someplace? What I want is a black steel rack, with the cut-outs on both side to add work lights. Been lookin, haven't been able to find yet. Thanks

MasseyMan1089

Ranch Hand stuff is nice, but a little pricey. just my .02 worth

mkubacak

Just about every accessory store I have been in all over Texas has either Ranch Hand or something similar. There are companies in Cedar Hill, Junction, Amarillo, and several other cities that make great headache racks.

http://www.ranchhand.com/

http://www.eaglefab.com/index.htm

http://www.customtruckworks.net/index.html

http://www.southwestfabricators.com/index.html

http://www.roughcountry.qpg.com/

Hope you find what you are looking for.

Michael

BarryG

Here is one more place B&W
www.turnoverball.com

cumminsboy

Are you looking for something like this?

rharveysr

I want a headache that I can have the mounts in place for my Taylor wing. I dont want the bars across the window but it will have the lights. I have always wondered how you would wash the rear window the the bars on the headache rack???

Rick

Buckshotmckee

Yes! Thats exactly what I'm looking for, except I want metal grading on it.

rharveysr

All the racks that I have seen just dont go high enough to clear the cab so that I can mount the bars that are on the bottom of the wing.
What I may end up doing is just buying the material and building it myself..


Rick

Palmetto_kid

i built my own because they were too expensive. see my photo gallery. sch40 2" sq. tubing....its friggin heavy.

Who washes their back window anyway?

my rack

jiMMyCTD

stupid question.. where did that term headache come from?

im probbaly going to build my own. jiMMy

Palmetto_kid

they are to protect your back window from objects possibly coming through the window and giving you a headache.

pulling someone out of the mud with a chain, and it breaks and decides to come through your window. But oops, you decided you didint want any slats on your headache rack beacause you couldnt clean the windows ......Rick,...im just kidding....dont shoot me...lol

signature600

Let something hit the back of the cab HARD while you're in the truck, THEN you know why they call it a headache rack

I've had one on each truck I've drove (both of them ). The first one was homeade, the second is built in the flatbed.

I still busted a back window out of the first truck, the shock of the crash did it, it didn't even touc the glass

Chris

AggiePhil

Headache racks can look cool at times, but then again...not always. Plus, they making seeing through the back glass next to impossible unless you have one with a gap in the middle, like the one that was posted above. I don't know...I'd like to have rear-facing lights located there, but I don't see any other reason for ME to have one. Now if some of you guys make it a habit of pulling people out with chains, there you go. But I myself never do this. I do try to find excuses to add more steel armor though, so this is a moral dilemma for me.

signature600

Seeing through them is not a problem, I've got louvers on mine that are just flat steel welded in on an angle.....yeah, you do have to move your head a bit to see the persons face in the car behind you, but all you really need to see is the car, right?

Let me tell you though, they are a must have in the farm machinery business...especially with my dad around. Quote from Dad "AH, just keep piling it on 'till you run out of stuff, then tie it down and head for home!" I've gotten more dirty looks on the freeway because of his wacky loads thenany one person has ever deserved.

Chris

AggiePhil

Actually, it can be. Cummins4x4Diesel has one that makes it dang near impossible to see through.