welcome back to steve rob reviews today i hope you enjoyed this video that i'm presenting on
an easy project for all of you that have pickup trucks whether you have a cap on or if you
don't have a cap you can still use this idea now this idea is for transporting whatever you have
in your back of your box that you want to transport it safely and sometimes if you just
think about planning the most logical things that you're constantly transporting well then you know
you can design your particular situation that you have to match the products that you actually
transport a lot i've got four of these totes and i transport these constantly sometimes only two
sometimes only one sometimes all four right then i got gas cans i'm always transporting gasoline
from here up to my camp in northern ontario so you gotta actually transport something safely you just
can't have it flopping around the back your truck going you know all over the place so it's got to
be secure right now the whole idea behind this video is a way that you can transport stuff safely
and secure because remember anything that comes out of your truck is your responsibility your
insurance company is going to say hasta la vista because we're not paying for anything
that falls out of your truck now i just want a little bit of a personal experience myself
one day i made like 150 dollars you know for free picking up lumber and
i'm up in norton ontario and i'm going along my road and of course my road is up and down and
up and down and bumpy and this kind of stuff for miles and miles and miles before i get to my camp
and just before the first hill that comes to my place i see some two by fours in the middle
of the road so what do i do i stop pick up the two by fours put them in the back of my truck
i go a little bit further down i'm finding two by fours two by six two by i'm finding lumber
constantly maybe over the next five miles i must have picked up 150 dollars worth of lumber
and and you know that was because somebody was hauling lumber in the back of their truck
and it was falling out the back and they had no idea so that's what you want to try to prevent
right this is the whole idea of the video okay so one of these you can buy these pretty well
anywheres they're like they're they're called i guess milk containers that kind of stuff
and they fit a propane tank a 20-pound propane tank perfectly so i put my propane tank in there
and i designed this system so i could put a propane tank i can put a gasoline tank i can
you know modify it any way i want and they will stay down secure now when i'm talking about secure
i'm talking about just using a ratchet strap you know like this they're good for like a thousand
pounds and there's nothing that i'm hauling here that is close to a thousand pounds like the most i
get one of these totes is maybe 25 30 pounds just bringing up tools and that kind of thing and uh
when you're thinking about the hardware that you use yeah i'm using quarter inch i'm using
quarter inch screws nothing cheesy you know don't go cheap right or if you want use carriage bolts
you can bolt this all together so what i'm going to do first is i'll take you off the tripod and
i'll show you what these look like and remember you can design this to the toast that you have
or the gas cans you have or whatever else that you constantly transport and just kind of shape
it for your needs so let's take a look and before i put this in the back of the truck and show you
how this all works i'll show you the two boards that i bought all i bought was two eight footers
two by six by eight feet and i just cut them to the sizes that i needed and uh let's take a look
okay so this is just the design here and you can see i put some white silicone caulking in
all the cracks you know so it doesn't just stay with water in it and you can see i did put some
tie downs now this one here this is going to be on the uh on the rear closest to the tailgate
and this one here is going to be up by the front of the box this one here has got no hardware on
it at all except just the screws holding this in and i did put some construction adhesive
in between clamped them and then i screwed it all together so i mean this is a very
easy design anybody can build this kind of thing and all i did well is i put four screws
at each end you know and uh you know it's very simple to do and i'm gonna take you
out to the truck i'm gonna put these in the back now generally i'll only have this one in
most of the time but i can also put this one in when i need it
or just leave them out like what i would usually do for the winter because i'm not transporting
this kind of stuff in the winter so let's go to the truck and i'll show you how this all works
well that's how they just slide in and you can see how you just
bring it across slide it down and they slide in very easily and if you take a look at this side
yeah you can see how that just notches to go in there and uh you know now i put these
tie downs in separately you know they didn't come from the factory like that but as you can see here
well that just fits right in the slot right very easy to take out and the distance from the
from this board to this board was something that you have to adjust yourself for your needs
and the distance between here and the back when your tailgate is closed is something that you
can adjust just by adding more blocking whichever way you want to go but either way if you have a
cap or if you don't have a cap even if you just put one of these boards right straight across
just like this one just a one board by itself you know you go to the store you buy something it
stays in here and it doesn't shift forward on you all the time and you know for the price of a board
it's well worth it so now i'll show you how this is all designed and how it comes in so
handy when you're trying to transport something safely traveling the highways
okay let's start off at the back here i got one of these milk crates here and my gas can and
you can just take a look there and you could see yeah there's a little bit of space here at this
end left because i can put two gas cans there or i can put two propane tanks here and the whole idea
is well i got the tie downs over there i got the tie downs on this side that i can put it through
you know my uh my gas can and through the top of the propane tank over to the other side and it's
all secured so then i got some other tie downs here for different size loads that i'm using
that if i want to put something on this side i can strap it on this way here
with my ratchet strap and moving on to this side here you can see that this is made exactly for
these totes with very little slack in between you can see that there's just a little bit of slack
but it was made and designed for that right there now there's a tie down down in the corner there
and there's a tie down down the corner on here and what i do is i get the ratchet strap and feed it
through the top see on the top on the far side you got these holes going all the way around i feed it
through here down to the tie down across the whole top i feed it through either this one or this one
these tie downs here so this one here you can go from here right across to the other side
and then down on that side and these bins wouldn't go nowhere and the strap is on top of it so even
if you were to get into an accident or anything these aren't coming flying out
and these will just come out like this so just imagine now i've got
four bins now these ones here the exact same way i would just have this bin over here and i do
the exact same thing bring the ratchet straps out except this time i can use this one here
and i can use that one there on the far side right there to secure it so it's all down secure and
it's not going anywhere well if you're wondering about these totes how they actually work you can
see the holes in here right and of course the lid matches up with it and they're pretty water tight
i mean i didn't want big totes because guess what you get a bigger tote it's a lot heavier right and
this is them right there and i just get these at home depot 10 bucks each and this is a new
one i got two new ones and i got two older ones that have to be 10 12 years old that i've been
using that i threw on my f-150 when i got a cap on just throw them inside there and it was fine
but when you're going down the highway i have seen so much stuff on the side of the roads especially
the lids of totes people that wrapped up stuff that they didn't want to get wet i guess
in garbage bags thrown on the side of the road because you know what the wind gets a hold of
this stuff and it just goes everywhere and of course if you've ever seen an accident scene
where somebody you see them they're heading up to their cottage during the summer time and they
got the back of their pickup truck just loaded up with everything you get into an accident and it's
all over the highway so i mean now now you've got a lot more to deal with with just you know dealing
with the accident you have the after effects of being charged for not having a secure load
and all the damage is involved thereafter so i mean for me it's very easy just to get one of
these you know ratchet straps just weave it through make sure it's tied down good
bungee cords no no no never mind that bungee cord stuff that's not gonna last right so i mean if you
want to hold down something that weighs you know 200 pounds you get a thousand pound ratchet strap
and and you're fine you know your liability is reduced it shows that you actually made
an effort to have a secure load i mean even if you do just get stopped by the uh you know the
ministry of transport inside the road at least it looks as if you made some kind of an effort
to secure your load because if you made no effort at all you're getting a ticket at least a ticket
and uh you're not leaving the highway unless it is secured so i mean if you don't have ratchet
straps on you nah you ain't going anywhere so it's best to be prepared and this is the first pickup
truck i've had without a cap and i think i like it better without a cap than with a cat for my needs
because me crawling inside the back of that cap all the time always to go to the front to get
something them days are over at least now i can just hop up in the back of the tailgate there
go inside get whatever i want take it on take it off i can carry
taller items that are restricted to before you know and i've got lots of tie downs in that box
and i got lots of ratchet straps so thanks for joining me here today i hope you enjoyed this a
little bit of a you know an idea on how you could actually you know manufacture your own with just
using some regular you know 2x6 lumber and all pickup trucks have them slots one in the back
one in the front they got a couple on the sides for uh you know horizontal loads so i mean yeah
make use of the box the way it was designed and have a safe trip so thanks for joining me
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