How do you rack your ladders?

[colb]

Looking for the best ways to rack my ladders (6' and 12' Hasagawa tripods) on my current and future rigs. Love to see what you've got. I'm especially interested in racking ladders on a chip box or dump body, and/or on an Isuzu truck roof. This is the rig I'm targeting (Bluestone Tree made this and sold it here on the Buzz :




This is what I'm doing now:

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The van rack looks solid.

I'd add a roll cage around that plastic AC unit. Too likely to get broken by an errant ladder toss. The cage could do double duty as part of the rack.

 

[colb]

The van rack looks solid.

I'd add a roll cage around that plastic AC unit. Too likely to get broken by an errant ladder toss. The cage could do double duty as part of the rack.

I've got this one HOA that does not raise the tree limbs to 14' over the road...

Kind of want those fold-down rack atop a chip box, if that is a thing. Could that be a thing? Anyone have those racks?

 

[colb]

Racking on the underside/interior of a chip box roof, or high on the interior sides - good or bad idea? Would the chip velocity damage the aluminum?

 

[evo]

Racking on the underside/interior of a chip box roof, or high on the interior sides - good or bad idea? Would the chip velocity damage the aluminum?

I doubt it would, but the fines cake in every nook and cranny adding weight and something else to clean. I use to just tie them to the roof of the chip truck, sometimes just tossing them in with the chips if room allowed. These days with covid we are minimizing exposure so taking two trucks regardless of the job. So the ladders just go in the pickup, along with what ever other tools that would get crammed in with the chips. It’s actually pretty nice having the extra space, but if not for covid I’d just save fuel and wear and tear