I am looking to redo a part of my wood box. I need to reorganize the top part of the box, and add some storage for the bipods, traffic signs, and a drawer to organize some small items.
Being solo, I tend to carry a lot of gear. Probably way too much, but I always have what I need when I get on the job site, especially when things don't go exactly as planned.
I will also, hopefully, starting another layout job out of town, and the office will be several hours away, so I'll have to have all the gear and organized.
Anyone care to share pics of their setup?
Thanks,
Jimmy
I don't have any pics - and I should.
Ask Shelby Griggs to post pics of his horse.
He is a one-man travelling road show!!
Eric,
I have a few of his pics from the old board. He has a really nice setup.
I would really like to have a small enclosed trailer to work out of, but some of my projects would make that a little difficult.
I save almost every picture that someone posts of their truck, and I have an idea of what I really want, but it as really cool to see what others come up with as well.
I have to get more organized, both in the truck and in the office. It's driving me crazy.
Take care and stay warm!
Mark,
Thanks again for posting that. That is a really cool setup. I bookmarked the video.
Jimmy
Nice Setup!!! Thanks for sharing.
Truck Boxes - Here is my Current Setup
Mark
is the u-box water tight?
Mark
> is the u-box water tight?
Yes, but not moisture-tight, much like a standard truck canopy.
Jimmy, this is one of my trucks, box designed on CAD by me, and then built by myself and a good buddy.
I like the PVC for the tripods and bipod setup...I do the same thing.
> I like the PVC for the tripods and bipod setup...I do the same thing.
Yeah me too, the bottom left 4" tube has a cap on it and is cut the perfect length for corner irons.
Here is a couple more shots of the inside, it is a pretty cool design, equipment is very accessable, easy to see if something is missing, a place for everthing, everything in it's place.
Man, that is a nice setup. My next truck will have at least a 6.5' bed. My current truck has a 5.5' bed.
I have a good friend that surveys out of a Ford Sportrac, and his bed is 4.5'. He does have a roof rack though.
This is what I made up using MDF material. It's lighter than plywood and when I empty the equipment out, I can slide the whole thing out of the truck box single handed.
The PVC tubes hold the 4' lath. About a bundle each
The drawer holds the tribrachs and prisms in padded slots and there are cubes for spikes, PK's, tapes, chaining pins and other miscellanous stuff I carry around. The expensive toys ride in the quad cab.
I built a book case out of MDF, it takes paint nicely but doesn't have very much structural strength on its own.
The other option is to use less than 3/4" plywood. I inherited a 4WD van at a previous job where they had built a huge box out of all 3/4" plywood. They did a really nice job with dado joints and so on but that thing was way too heavy even for a 1 ton van. It didn't help that they had a 300lb floor toolbox in there too. We took it apart and built a new box out of mostly plastic pipe and the van handled way better after that. Loading the rear down can adversely affect the vehicle's handling.
The box in my current F250 was built by my Supervisor (he promoted) but he used 1/4 and 1/2 plywood intelligently so the structure is good but the box is much less heavy.
Don't forget your travel grill kit:
It's not in the truck right now because the next trip is motel staying (no grilling). I inadvertently threw away the charcoal grill, aarrrgh. Luckily we found a broken fireplace grate in the office yard that the forest trash guy must have found dumped out there. I used the sledge hammer to break it up some more then arranged the pieces in the bottom of the grill which worked fine, luckily. The foil loaf pans are for indirect cooking. I put the pan on one side of the charcoal grate and dump the charcoals (lighted) on the other side. Then I put my meat on the cooking grill over the pan; it works great.
The inspiration for this is a memory I have of a childhood camping trip. Mostly we backpacked but when I was roughly in Junior High School my parents hooked up with some car camping friends. We camped somewhere in the National Forest. One of the men had built a cabinet which fit in the trunk of his car for all of his cooking stuff. I always thought that was a really good idea. His was more elaborate and he had painted it. I just needed something to carry my grilling tools in.
Don't forget your travel grill kit:
Nice set-up, Dave!! :good:
That would be a great set-up for a picnic BBQ. Sure beats using those icky pits most parks have!! 🙂
Don't forget your travel grill kit:
Everything used in the construction is plywood I salvaged from a homemade light table (not needed, the fluorescent fixtures now light my garage) and an old dresser and some scraps I had too. The only thing I purchased were the hinges. The handles came from the light table. The latch was in a package of two for another project (which only needed one too).