Rack advice for 2nd generation Tacoma?

[Stillwater's]

I’m looking at buying a 2015 Tacoma, which has no rack or cap. In the past I’ve built wood racks for my old Taco’s, and just bolted them on; trying to get an idea as to what rack options any folks here may have put on a 2008-2015 Tacoma, 6’ bed?

 

[gadabyte]

i built a wood one for my '17 tacoma, fastened with ratchet straps to the tie-down points in the bed. this one was basically a prototype, but it's lasted me 5 years even though it sits in the bed year round. going to build a new one soon with pt lumber and some minor changes based on things i eventually wished i'd done differently (chief among them making it wide enough to fit my srt and indy at the same time without having to use the removable rails i eventually fabricated to accomplish that).

 

[recped]

I’m looking at buying a 2015 Tacoma, which has no rack or cap. In the past I’ve built wood racks for my old Taco’s, and just bolted them on; trying to get an idea as to what rack options any folks here may have put on a 2008-2015 Tacoma, 6’ bed?

I have a first gen (2002) Extracab with the six foot bed. I have a cap, are you adverse to the concept of a cap or is it the cost of one?

With a cap and two 2x4's I've carried 3 canoes (1 stacked) on a number of occasions.

I realize that is not any help if you don't/can't add a cap to it.

Just curious, is this new (to you) Tacoma a 4 door or extra cab? I'd love to have the 4-door / 6ft bed but living in the city my parking skills have declined over the years and I have enough trouble parking my 16.9ft "monster", the 2015 4-door is about 2 ft longer!

 

[Chip]

I used Thule xtrasports on my 2009, but later equipped it with a cap and rack. I sold the Xtraport racks. But, I frequently decapped the Taco to do truck stuff—hauling firewood, mulch, gravel, piles of bicycles, etc. Then, to my horror, I discovered I had no way to carry a boat! I bought another set of Xtrasports. They are a pricey, excellent solution if you need to keep your bed open.

I used a DIY, PT 2x4 on my ‘88 Toyota pickup, and it migrated to my ‘02 Taco. The base of the rack was a rectangular frame of 2x4’s that laid on the bed, and there were braces for the towers that went from the frame to the towers at a 45-degree angle. It also had a wheeled stand that dropped down when the rack came out of the bed. What was cool about that was I could remove the rack with my canoe tied on, then wheel it to the side yard and park the canoe-laden rack until I was going to go boating, then wheel it back into the bed where it got ratchet strapped to the tie-downs. A disadvantage of the DIY racks was that the rack and wheel-stand took up a lot of space in the bed.

The demise of the DIY rack involved an overhanging tree limb. I saw a guy in Connecticut that had a similar tree limb experience with his Xtrasport racks. The racks were fine, those things are strong, but it bent the top rail of the bed. I’d rather break a 2x4 rack than suffer body damage to the truck. So, whichever way you decide to rack, be aware of overhanging tree limbs!

 

[Stillwater's]

"Just curious, is this new (to you) Tacoma a 4 door or extra cab? I'd love to have the 4-door / 6ft bed but living in the city my parking skills have declined over the years and I have enough trouble parking my 16.9ft "monster", the 2015 4-door is about 2 ft longer!:

It’s an access cab I guess, not 4 doors but a bench and storage behind the front bucket seats. I don’t want the 4 doors, I like the smaller trucks myself. Rarely have a passenger.
I’ve built wood racks for a few Taco’s over the years, settled on a style where the uprights are angled in to match the can angle. All 15 degree cuts for the angles.