I made my way up into the hills over the weekend and wanted to share some pictures.
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I finally built drawers for the back of the rig after sitting on the material for a couple months. This was the first trip I took with them, it's nice having all the junk I drive around with organized and out of the way. The drawers make it easy to access everything too. They aren't finished (see duct tape handles ha), I need to figure out what I want to do for drawer pulls/latches, add some eye bolts and turnbuckles on each corner, and finish them by either staining/painting or covering them with carpet/rubber/vinyl sheets. Not sure what I will do, but I'm leaning towards carpet because it's cheap and easy to slide gear over.
I'm happy with them so far, although the dog kennel is about 1/2" too long now that it hits the seat higher, so I have to slide the kennel in sideways. That was the only oversight I had in the planning stage. They are built out of 3/4" pine plywood for the drawer boxes and most of the frame. The bottom of the frame is 1/2" pine plywood. Both drawers are full-length and ride on 36" full extension drawer slides with a 250lb rating.
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