How to transport ATV and portable in bed?

Looking for ideas on how people without trailers transport their portables and atv?
I have strapped down my ramps under my atv and used them to hold my house strapped to the bed by I don’t know how safe that is. Anyone have a better way?

Can you get a receiver hitch cargo rack for the house? Or a trailer for the wheeler? Or a sledbed on top of your truck bed?

Small one-place ATV sized trailers are cheap on Craig’s List. So much easier than loading onto a truck.

I extended my rear rack on my wheeler which allows me to put my Otter Sled or shack on it. That was the only way I have found to do it so far, without getting a trailer.

My buddy is making one of these. Though, you might have issues for larger sleds like magnum or bigger (Otter Lodge/Resort) because of the length of the sled blocking the tail lights.

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Bryan Myers wrote:

I extended my rear rack on my wheeler which allows me to put my Otter Sled or shack on it. That was the only way I have found to do it so far, without getting a trailer.

Brian,

Can you post some pictures? What size sled/shack fits on it? Did you remove your atv’s rack and just use the mount points? I have a Grizzly 700 and have often thought of fabricating the rear rack mounting points for some type of structure to haul a flipover, there’s just not alot of room to work with considering even an Otter Cottage is 32″ wide

Joe I’ll dig around I used to run a Cottage on mine but I don’t know if I have any pics of that. I now run the Hideout, or I take the Hub and just put the Otter sled on it. I attach my extended rack right to the rear rack of my machine.

I scrounged up a couple pictures of it. These are with the Otter Pro Cottage.

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This is how I’m going to run mine this year. I got the 8″ extension for my receiver but I might go back & get the 14″ or I might just lay a 2×4 across in the front of rack just to get it a little more level. But 2 ratchet straps should hold it good. I can’t shut my tailgate because of the wheeler so I just slide my ramps under. There’s a lot of these on Amazon.

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I just put everything in my trailer. Protects it from thieves, salt, gives me a place to sleep, cook meals, listen to radio and watch tv. Trailer doubles as camper during warm weather seasons and is the garage for the Atv when not in use. Just don’t let the friends and family know you own it or you will be the first one they call when they want to move.

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I have posted this here a couple times. Works great. It is a hitch extender/canoe rack. Leave extender off, drive the wheeler up on ramps, put ramps under wheeler, hook up extender and drop house in and strap it down. Quick plug-in magnetic brake lights will work if the house is on sideways and blocking your taillights.

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Bryan Myers wrote:

I scrounged up a couple pictures of it. These are with the Otter Pro Cottage.

Thanks for the pics, did you just fab that up yourself? Is the extended rack just attached to the stock rack bars with u bolts/bolted through??

glenn-d wrote:

This is how I’m going to run mine this year. I got the 8″ extension for my receiver but I might go back & get the 14″ or I might just lay a 2×4 across in the front of rack just to get it a little more level. But 2 ratchet straps should hold it good. I can’t shut my tailgate because of the wheeler so I just slide my ramps under. There’s a lot of these on Amazon.

Cool, I too have thought of those, they are just never long/wide enough for the sled to properly fit in unless you modified it via welding. Careful your exhaust doesn’t get to close to your flipover fabric…Northern Tool has several options like that, with the quarterly coupons they send out you can get a good deal on them..

Hitch extender as has been posted. Works great. I had to run a set of portable tail lights on mine due to local laws on the overhang.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bryan Myers wrote:</div>
I scrounged up a couple pictures of it. These are with the Otter Pro Cottage.

Thanks for the pics, did you just fab that up yourself? Is the extended rack just attached to the stock rack bars with u bolts/bolted through??

I just put it together with some thin walled square steel I had. It’s just bolted with some J hooks to factory rack.