Plywood & buckets bed

[Billy The Impaler]

I plan on building a bed by laying plywood on hardware store buckets or milk crates. How thick should the plywood be for a fat guy? Do I need to go a full inch thick?

 

[danthewolf00]

1 inch is over kill

 

[LDB]

What size plywood sheet (LxW) and how many buckets? And will you have a plywood sheet beneath the buckets so the entire surface is load bearing? In my van the ribs in the floor would have kept a good bit of the bucket not making contact.

 

[Billy The Impaler]

I hadn't thought of an under sheet of plywood. I don't have dimensions yet but it would be the width of the sprinter at the side door less an inch or two. I'm thinking 6 buckets.

 

[LDB]

Six buckets are going to support almost the entire sheet. Not that I know anything, as I'm not an engineer, don't portray one on television and haven't recently slept at a Holiday Inn Express, but I'd think with 6 buckets a half inch thick sheet would work, especially if you have a sheet beneath the buckets. With fewer buckets or no base support I'd probably go with 3/4.

 

[danthewolf00]

Drill holes in the bottom of each bucket so they will not stick together....