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Well I'm no great fan on double cabs, and it always drives me mad having to climb in over the tailgate move all the tools at the front search in the half light just to get a poxy spanner.
So I decided to knock up a bed slider, like all things for myself I needed to do it quickly and with what was kicking around, I'm sure with more time and finesse many could have made a more bling job.
So using some old Henderson door sliding track taken from a skip, mounted and slotted backwards, some 50x50x3 SHS left over from a job, A folded C Catnic lintel (left over from my self build), ply from a box waggon and a few pieces of PTO steel I knocked this together in a day.
Box being heavy it acts as the canter leaver and when slid in tray sits on two lumps of rubber matting, a piece on the tailboard then snugs it tight to stop any movement forward or back.
Vice slides in to main bed would have perhaps been nice to make it stow under the tray but would have meant sitting tray higher and not clearing the back, compressor sits on the wonk to clear tailgate.
A decent pull and whole lot slides out, box can be reached with relative ease from the sides, compressor slides forward to clear.
Quiver sits under and comes forward with bed, tried to make common tools at the back, I do however want to make a kit box up just to have on the back seats with common tools that can be carried up onto a machine in one hit, nothing more frustrating than crawling inside some piece of kit then finding you needed a 19 mm ratchet spanner rather than a 17.
Carry's most essential tools, anything else like extra welders, genset etc go in the trailer, at some point I want to make a lockable cube to just fork the whole lot on in one hit, but a job for another week or year!.
So I decided to knock up a bed slider, like all things for myself I needed to do it quickly and with what was kicking around, I'm sure with more time and finesse many could have made a more bling job.
So using some old Henderson door sliding track taken from a skip, mounted and slotted backwards, some 50x50x3 SHS left over from a job, A folded C Catnic lintel (left over from my self build), ply from a box waggon and a few pieces of PTO steel I knocked this together in a day.
Box being heavy it acts as the canter leaver and when slid in tray sits on two lumps of rubber matting, a piece on the tailboard then snugs it tight to stop any movement forward or back.
Vice slides in to main bed would have perhaps been nice to make it stow under the tray but would have meant sitting tray higher and not clearing the back, compressor sits on the wonk to clear tailgate.
A decent pull and whole lot slides out, box can be reached with relative ease from the sides, compressor slides forward to clear.
Quiver sits under and comes forward with bed, tried to make common tools at the back, I do however want to make a kit box up just to have on the back seats with common tools that can be carried up onto a machine in one hit, nothing more frustrating than crawling inside some piece of kit then finding you needed a 19 mm ratchet spanner rather than a 17.
Carry's most essential tools, anything else like extra welders, genset etc go in the trailer, at some point I want to make a lockable cube to just fork the whole lot on in one hit, but a job for another week or year!.
