gunnyr
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About 2 years ago I made a career change from corporate Six Sigma Black Belt/Project Manager to carpenter! Leaving the corporate gig was not my choice but I got the opportunity to work for a great carpenter. Woodworking had been a hobby for many years and I always dreamed of making a living at it. I used to explain what I did for a living and folks would generally shake their heads and mumble. Now I say simply "I'm a carpenter", no more head shaking!
Anyway, when I started making sawdust for a living I bought a used Silverado WT with a mid-size ARE commercial cap. The great thing about the cap was that one side was open giving me access to the entire bed in the short term and allowing me to create custom storage in the future.
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After working with only the left toolbox for a year or so I began to have a good idea what I needed.
Below is the current final result. I say "current final" because..... [big grin] [wink] [big grin]
Looking from the rear of the truck you can see I sized the depth of the right box so that I could fit my Paul Workbench on rails between the original left box and the new right box. There is space above the workbench for a piece of foam and my rails. At the front of the bed I built a box to hold my saw horses and table saw out feed supports; these are accessed from the left outside. My table saw slides underneath the sawhorse box and leaves room next to it for other less frequently used tools. At the tailgate I can fit my SysRoll and CT with systainers, ready to unload and go to work.
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The left box came with the cap and is not deep enough for anything but a single layer of sys1's. The left box contains most of my smaller, frequently used hand tools and supplies, as well as the critical lunch box! The half of this box towards the cab is well organized with tool holders, but the rear half of it needs some work.
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The right box is sized to hold systainers! The shelves are adjustable, I routed out mortices on them for the systainer feet to sit in. I have not had any trouble with them moving around or coming loose in my travels. I have changed to latches on the systainers that hold non-Festool tools to make them a little easier to identify. Makes it easy to send someone to my truck to get the DeWalt Laser, "it's the one with the yellow latch", etc. I blacked the windows out to prevent the folks from seeing what is in the truck.
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Anyway, when I started making sawdust for a living I bought a used Silverado WT with a mid-size ARE commercial cap. The great thing about the cap was that one side was open giving me access to the entire bed in the short term and allowing me to create custom storage in the future.
View attachment 1 View attachment 2 View attachment 3
After working with only the left toolbox for a year or so I began to have a good idea what I needed.
Below is the current final result. I say "current final" because..... [big grin] [wink] [big grin]
Looking from the rear of the truck you can see I sized the depth of the right box so that I could fit my Paul Workbench on rails between the original left box and the new right box. There is space above the workbench for a piece of foam and my rails. At the front of the bed I built a box to hold my saw horses and table saw out feed supports; these are accessed from the left outside. My table saw slides underneath the sawhorse box and leaves room next to it for other less frequently used tools. At the tailgate I can fit my SysRoll and CT with systainers, ready to unload and go to work.
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The left box came with the cap and is not deep enough for anything but a single layer of sys1's. The left box contains most of my smaller, frequently used hand tools and supplies, as well as the critical lunch box! The half of this box towards the cab is well organized with tool holders, but the rear half of it needs some work.
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The right box is sized to hold systainers! The shelves are adjustable, I routed out mortices on them for the systainer feet to sit in. I have not had any trouble with them moving around or coming loose in my travels. I have changed to latches on the systainers that hold non-Festool tools to make them a little easier to identify. Makes it easy to send someone to my truck to get the DeWalt Laser, "it's the one with the yellow latch", etc. I blacked the windows out to prevent the folks from seeing what is in the truck.
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