Just built this today, used 30 rollers, and 1/2" plywood, will now remove and stain and put some light felt on the slide. Thanks for the video.

I just did a build with similar components but in a different manner. Was needing a slide out mainly for hauling RC Planes so I covered a single sheet in the Loop side of hook and loop and use narrow strips of the hook side to strap my planes to it. I put the same ball bearings on the bottom of the same sheet that rolls in the grooves of the bed right on my Line X and I'm utilizing conduit legs after pulling it out that fit into sockets screwed into cast iron floor flanges on the bottom corners. I considered purchasing 60" drawer slides and using those instead, but those are $134 for a pair. Still may do that in the future but after getting this completed today I like it for now, works well. So basically it's half of the components you have here and using the bearing on the sheet that slides. The benefit in your design is you don't have to bother with the legs but it is more weight and harder to remove. Thanks for sharing, one of the reasons KZfaq is so great. Many from all over being able to share ideas of a topic!

That's exactly what I was thinking of using. Thanks for showing this video. It helped me nail down my design thoughts.

I don’t understand why people don’t understand the loading. Pull it out and throw your bags of cement on back and move in and load more weight and so on and so on. Then when unloading you do it in reverse. This is a great idea for 90% of anyone’s needs if you think you need a bed slide. And it’s cheap and durable. I may add a flip out base piece with some bearings to support to the end of the tailgate.

I am sick of crawling into my canopy like a troll. Cant wait to build me one.

Thanks! I definitely learned something useful that can apply to my developing but differing project. Thank you for sharing. :-)

Great job. Thank you so much for posting

Great video. It shows it can be done and then there is opportunities for others to get creative and make their own improvements etc. For me i was thinking just some low profile rubber grommets would help keep the wood off the bed and create a friction for no no drilling and lastly even just for sound dampening. Great vid. Nice and short and sweet for the ADD lol

Good job on giving due credit! I respect that!

I’m about to replicate, cool build!

I would think a stiff peice of indor/outdoor carpet would do the same thing with a fraction of the cost and weight. I guess Im not really understanding. If it works for thats awesome. Its very nicely built.

Design improvement would be butting the top piece of the L butting into the side so you would have more shear when the slide is extented

you could put your top rail 1x closer to the plywood and use felt to make it slide real good, that way there is no gap and any weight discrepancies you wouldn't have any slack or tip page, your roll out plywood would be in there tighter, I liek this idea, make it modular so the whole kit and caboodle comes out easily, using release pins..

Lol I did this last year. I didn’t know people were doing this on KZfaq. Anyways, if you don’t put something on the bottom of the slide, the rollers will eat into the wood if you load it regularly. I use it for my work tools until it wouldn’t work anymore.

good video. slide seems hard to pull out ... worried about how hard it will be when I have my handyman kit loaded up.

I think yours is heavy because of friction, I'm going to assume you didn't rip a 1/8 - 1/4 off the pull out plywood part, otherwise nice build

Can you provide the link to the build definitely gonna do it . Thank you

The best part of the video is when the doggie walks past and plops down for a nap.

Great video, is the platform screwed down or anchored to the bed of your truck at all or do you relying on the weight based plywood sheet to keep it from tipping up when the slide is extended out?

nice build, did you have to screw the bottom sheet to the truck's bed to stabilize it?

where did you get the bearings or what re they called? looked em up, roller ball transfer bearings .. great idea

hardware? what kind of slides are these?

How did you attach it to the bed. I have the same truck, just with the standard bed.

Does it still work that good when it's loaded up with stuff

two things - your video description is lacking the roller bearings. but if you watch the video not a big deal. love the project ill most likely copy it - but i was curious about the sturdiness - especially when drawn out all the way. say if i load it up with tools, cant really extract the whole deck without some sort of support right? - still a sliding deck for sub $200 is exactly in my price range - thanks for the great idea, regardless if you took inspiration from elsewhere.

Isn't there another, lighter, material that could be used in place of the wood sheeting?

If you use 1/2” plywood, do you still need 1x4” sides?

What screws did you use to bolt down the bottom plywood to the bed

Can you just use half-inch on the bottom piece?

How did you secure bottom peice to bed?

Wouldn't one piece of plywood with wheels underneath work? One less.piece of wood, lighter and less expensive... i am going to try that first, otherwise this would be great....thanks

What happens when they get full of sand?

how do you get the base to stay put?

You didn’t show how to anchor the bottom down so it doesn’t flip up in front with a load on it. You also need to put a stop about two thirds out so you accidentally pull it all the way out. I’m going to build it with theses modifications.

How did you attach bearings ?

That's not affecting fuel mileage, it's a truck

Would never build this way… it’ll snap in half if you pull it out with anything heavy on it… this design needs LOTS of reinforcement to be worthwhile…