5/24/21: Winter is long over, time to get a sheet of plywood and make the base plate. Lowes: no pressure-treated 1/2 inch in stock. About half of the items on the shelf have no no prices, those that do range anywhere from $60.00 - nearly $100.00. About double what it would have cost during the winter.
Home Depot: similar story but at least the most of the goods have a price marked. I settled for a non-pressure-treated sheet because their are only 4 on the shelf and all of them look damaged, warped etc. The price on the shelf said $66.00 but it rang up as $85.00 at the register. $66.00 was too good to be true. Ouch.
Brought it home and put it up on saw horses in the garage. Put the cardboard template of the truck bed I made earlier back in to make sure it still fits right. Looks good, so I put it over the plywood sheet in the garage. Surprise. The template is wider than the plywood and yet the the plywood just fit in the truck bed.
I traced the outline of the wheel well and the overall length of the template onto the plywood. Cut it with jig saw. Painted it with special "floor paint" but it will need multiple coats. I'll put it in the truck bed tomorrow to figure out what adjustments are needed. Likely, I'll need to add a strip to fill in the shortfall but it I understand where I went wrong -yet. Good thing I didn't make a living with my hands eh?
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