Timtool
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I recently bought a more recent truck, on my previous one i had made a box to hold systainers above the bed. And it was a great feature but i built it to high.
This time i had to make a new one with a few improvements, it can house 4 systainers in width, and a sys4 in height or 3 stacked sys1's.
Theres a little spare room in the middle for other stuff, and a storage shelf at the rear to optimise the space between the bed end and the rear window.
The box doesn't touch the bottom of the bed so i can still slide a couple full sheets under it, and the top of the box follows the sloping line between the rear view mirror and the tailgate, this way it doesn't obstruct my rear view in any way.
it is made out of marine ply edged with an aluminium profile, i also sanded the heck out of the ply and painted it to match the truck better. It is simply screwed with 4 screws into the thick plastic bedliner, it's quite light and removing it take less than 2 minutes.
i don't often do job site work, but when i do i am happy to have everything in there protected from the weather. Theres no lock because i couldn't figure out yet how to put something on there that wouldn't look terrible and i never leave anything in there at night anyway.
Seeing this may be the first of the kind ever posted here it may be funny to come up with a name!
my ideas were "SUV-port" "truck-port" or whatever.
the coming week im getting the lettering done on my truck, if a nice name pops up i will get it done as well and stick it on there
This time i had to make a new one with a few improvements, it can house 4 systainers in width, and a sys4 in height or 3 stacked sys1's.
Theres a little spare room in the middle for other stuff, and a storage shelf at the rear to optimise the space between the bed end and the rear window.
The box doesn't touch the bottom of the bed so i can still slide a couple full sheets under it, and the top of the box follows the sloping line between the rear view mirror and the tailgate, this way it doesn't obstruct my rear view in any way.
it is made out of marine ply edged with an aluminium profile, i also sanded the heck out of the ply and painted it to match the truck better. It is simply screwed with 4 screws into the thick plastic bedliner, it's quite light and removing it take less than 2 minutes.
i don't often do job site work, but when i do i am happy to have everything in there protected from the weather. Theres no lock because i couldn't figure out yet how to put something on there that wouldn't look terrible and i never leave anything in there at night anyway.
Seeing this may be the first of the kind ever posted here it may be funny to come up with a name!
my ideas were "SUV-port" "truck-port" or whatever.
the coming week im getting the lettering done on my truck, if a nice name pops up i will get it done as well and stick it on there
