Loading ATV on 4X4

[sertshark]

I have a trifold ramp, but loading and unloading my ATV is never fun. I can find a ramp a few inches longer, but I doubt it would help much. The arched ramps are a lot longer, but it looks like the arch would just keep the incline just as steep. Getting a trailer is out of the question right now, plus where I usually go is easier without a trailer. I often go out by myself, and sometimes I can't find a hill to level the incline out a little. I was wondering if anyone out there has found a ramp that is nice for a 4X4. My truck isn't even lifted and I get nervous everytime I unload it.

[fishnhunt]

I put 1500+ miles a year on my ATV and have to load/unload hundreds of times a year and it makes me nervious too. Although I do have a trailer I rarely use it for the same reason. They do make longer ramps that fit in a long bed pickup, but my bed is too small when combined with my other gear. The best way I have found it to use anything available to drop the back end of the pickup...Road cuts, borrow ditches, dips, etc. I am almost always able to find something even in the desert country. And I haven't flipped it loading (not yet anyways) and I never ride the ATV out of the pickup.

[XDHUNTER]

+1 on fishnhunt said and practice..practice... practice..
And if you want to watch a video on how not to do it, go to you tube
type broke back window.he is a JHO member(REM3006)

[fishnhunt]

That is why I have a headache rack in the back of my pickup....But I have also used a railroad tie against the back of the bed to provide a stop before I hit the window. With pratice you can learn to load it without being on the bike too.

[BigSwad]

Maybe add a winch and winch it up in the truck? Might be an option. You can get those portable ones. Anchor it to your tie down points.

[KRAM]

depending on the wt of the atv make your own out of 2x10 8ft long they make brackets for that and rig safteys to the boards and so on plywood strips for traction umm use your imagination its cheap enough to make your own

[sancho]

i have used the arched ramps with motorcycles. i can push a sportbike into a relatively high truck with minimum help. so two of them still make you nervous? i have seen some guys use 3. they ride up.

i dont have a pickup anymore, but i keep that ramp stored. i love it. when i get a truck again.........