Bed Storage Finished!

I wanted to do a quick build thread on what I spent some vacation time doing this past week.

My goal with this truck is to build a rig that's all set up for overland, but is super easy to hunt/fish with. After racking my brain for weeks and weeks I finally decided that my next priority should be camp set up. I set out the goal of being able to set up or tear down a camp in less than 10 minutes. To do that, I needed some sort of bed system to go along with the roof top tent that I'll be ordering soon.

I really liked the goose gear storage systems, but just haven't found the sugar momma needed to stick $3000 worth of it in the back of my truck, so I dusted off my saws and got to work.

The driver side is a full length drawer. It turns out that heavy duty 60" drawer slides are quite spendy, so I made my own. Following what I've seen some folks on expedition portal do, I used 38 skateboard bearings and some steel square tubing. I can't believe how well this turned out. Super smooth and easy to slide. I finished this all off with the compression latch that comes with the goose gear system.

The passenger side is a slide for my cooler (and maybe a fridge some day). I originally wanted to build the cooler/stove slide out, but just couldn't get everything to come together how I wanted. Even worse, this slide out shrunk on me once done . Still functional, but will probably redo this bit down the road sometime. Behind the cooler slide is room for gas cans and water jugs, things like that.

Pictures below

Let me know what you think!

 

Looks good!

 

Good work.

 

Pretty cool. I like ideas made by owners.

 

Very nice!

 

Came out very clean!

 

This is awesome. Because of my dog im not sure i could do carpet.


It really sets it off though. Great work.

 

*bravo*

 

So when can you start on mine?

 

I think it is creative...and pretty darn cool!!
The finished product looks awesome. I am curious how the pine boards will hold up, as pine is a softwood and very susceptible to warping, and splitting along the grain. IMHO, 3/4" plywood would be a better choice for strength and longevity. As you stated, you will probably make changes in the future, but this is a great concept...especially with the skate bearings! Thanks for the idea...

 

Useful

 

Nice addition.... Are you gonna place plywood over that for your bed..??

Good work.

 

Very nice!!!

I have thought of doing the same thing in a couple years when I start outfitting my taco. My thought was two very short bed length drawers, one foam cut for long guns and one foam cut for my bow. Above those I was thinking a pull out fridge and a large pull out storage like yours.

 

Very nice!

 

Awesome

 

This is a great idea! I'm going to try to design something like this that fits over the wheel wells. I have a swing case there now, but it doesn't hold as much as I would like. Maybe something like this over the wheel well and attached to the bed rails so it could be secured but also removable.