Yak rack for a CJ5 Jeep??

OK do any of you guys have a way to travel your kayak to and from locations on the top of your jeep? how did you do it? what kind of mounting system did you use? If you have any photos that would be great!!!
I have a 74 CJ5 I am wrapping up the rebuild on and would love to be able to toss my 15' OC on top and head to the ocean or the lake or am I going to need a trailer?

Where do you live? We can build you one like this.

FM1
I live in Bakersfield
Thanks for the offer but I love to build things and was looking for ideas on some racks people might have built. I have a heli-arc welder & a stock pile of 2x2 Alum box tubing waiting to be made into something. So far my idea was to use a quick release connection to the back and front bumpers with the roll bar being some sort of support as well.

I like your design!!

Jeff

FM1
I live in Bakersfield
Thanks for the offer but I love to build things and was looking for ideas on some racks people might have built. I have a heli-arc welder & a stock pile of 2x2 Alum box tubing waiting to be made into something. So far my idea was to use a quick release connection to the back and front bumpers with the roll bar being some sort of support as well.

I like your design!!



Actually not my design but have built one for A freind before for his ladders.. If you have A tow hitch id start there.. 2" Square tubing is stock size for them.

Jeff

I am kicking around the idea of a topless 4x4 , just have to put the funds together. Without a hardtop, my basic idea was what FM1 posted, a T-bar plugged into the trailer hitch, and some sort of crossbar for the front.
Ideally (money being no object), I would have an exo-cage built with the yak in mind, and build in mounts for saddles and rollers.
Another option would be a solidly mounted steel rack like Conn-Ferr makes. I used one of their steel basket racks for many years, and hauled many,many yaks on it.

There's a newer wrangler parked at some posh downtown condos right up the street from my work.  Whoever owns it did it a great disservice by mounting the most godawful looking rack system I've ever seen in my entire life.  Its got exterior bars that look like they might bolt up to the frame then run up the back corners then over the roof.  The front bars are pretty similar.  Looks like something somebody woulda bilt out of pvc if they had no fabrication skills.  Uggliest monstrosity I've ever seen, I hate driving by it 

I'd mount a basket up top like Piscean is suggesting, just have someone weld up some tabs to make strapping it down easily and call it a day. 


Ahhhhhhhh!  I found puics of this unwieldly beast. 


 

I also wanted to transport a kayak on my Jeep; and I opt'd to install the Kargomaster Congo Cage on my Wrangler TJ. It had the most carrying capacity of all the pre-fab kits, 500lbs; and you do not need to remove the rack to remove the soft/hard top.

http://www.4x4xplor.com/kargomaster.html

Oh yeah... here's my lastest upgrade, my new bumper; before and after pics:

Looks great!  You be the master pimper!


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