truck tool build

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
I've managed to get my hands on a swb Shogun commercial, but need to sort out a way of getting tools and boxes/chests in the back without them just being chucked in and rattling around everywhere, so I was wondering what others would use? Am I best off sticking with plywood of some sort or is there anything better I could use without adding too much weight? Bearing in mind there is currently 3 top boxes, a middle box, power tool cases, bars and other bits which will get added to as time goes on.
And ideas are appreciated (y)
 

roscoe erf

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Livestock Farmer
I've managed to get my hands on a swb Shogun commercial, but need to sort out a way of getting tools and boxes/chests in the back without them just being chucked in and rattling around everywhere, so I was wondering what others would use? Am I best off sticking with plywood of some sort or is there anything better I could use without adding too much weight? Bearing in mind there is currently 3 top boxes, a middle box, power tool cases, bars and other bits which will get added to as time goes on.
And ideas are appreciated (y)
how much weight can you put in a shogun
 

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
Couldn't say, it's all currently in a terrano commercial no problem, it's just in a mess.
The tool weight isn't a concern, I just don't want to add unnecessary weight with what I build with.
 

sawdust

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Argyll
(y)

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MickMoor

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Location
Bonsall, UK
Always a problem, with no cheap solution. We obviously carry much more then you, but when we get a new van, we have to allow nearly a week to sort everything out. Plywood is good, because it doesn't rattle as much. Make sure it is easy to put things back in their proper place, whatever you do.
 

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
Always a problem, with no cheap solution. We obviously carry much more then you, but when we get a new van, we have to allow nearly a week to sort everything out. Plywood is good, because it doesn't rattle as much. Make sure it is easy to put things back in their proper place, whatever you do.

Hence the want to do it properly this time, with the old one, I've got to pull stuff out to get to any of it
 

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
The hope is that they should stay there 90% of the time, only if I need the space would they come out.
I'll have to size it up when the truck arrives, but my thinking is to have a shallow false floor for bars and such like to go under, a top box on the middle box across ways behind the seats to be accessed from the back (might even make it so it pulls out to the back) and then the other 2 top boxes lengthways either side with a pivot to swing them round to the back door if that makes sence?
 
How big are your top boxes
I think you wil struggle for room to be honest
I made a false floor for double cab pickup then had a top box that was 40"wide that went between wheel arches made on a frame with wheels so it can be slid to rear rather than climbing in all the time

Careful thinking and it will work
But if your top boxes are to big it wont
If they are just small ones get a bigger one and save some work
 

Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
You mentioned the false floor, if you go down this route fit some plastic pipes of the correct length, old ducting, pto guards, waste/soil pipe etc, to organise your bars and levers.
 

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
You mentioned the false floor, if you go down this route fit some plastic pipes of the correct length, old ducting, pto guards, waste/soil pipe etc, to organise your bars and levers.

Top thinking (y) If the false floor idea won't work I may do something with some pipes on the front of the bulkhead behind the seats
 

Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
Top thinking (y) If the false floor idea won't work I may do something with some pipes on the front of the bulkhead behind the seats

Stating the obvious maybe and most probably you have one but a short piece of PTO tubing welded to a plate and sandwiched inbetween the towbar and ball makes an ideal braket for holding things like a vice or a reel etc. Just use the mating pto tube welded to another plate that the vice etc can be attached to
 

sawdust

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Location
Argyll
The hope is that they should stay there 90% of the time, only if I need the space would they come out.
I'll have to size it up when the truck arrives, but my thinking is to have a shallow false floor for bars and such like to go under, a top box on the middle box across ways behind the seats to be accessed from the back (might even make it so it pulls out to the back) and then the other 2 top boxes lengthways either side with a pivot to swing them round to the back door if that makes sence?
Could possibly be made on a slide out system, then pivot around to access as normal
 

335d

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how much weight can you put in a shogun

Before you go too far, I would put all your tools in the back of the shogun and see how far the back end lowers. They're not made for carrying a lot of weight, especially if you have it hanging behind the axle. You might need something like suggested to slide the boxes as far forward when driving
 

johnboy87

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Mixed Farmer
Location
mid cornwall
Before you go too far, I would put all your tools in the back of the shogun and see how far the back end lowers. They're not made for carrying a lot of weight, especially if you have it hanging behind the axle. You might need something like suggested to slide the boxes as far forward when driving

Are they that bad? I couldn't see it sitting worse than a 160,000 mile terrano with the same tools?
 

roscoe erf

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Livestock Farmer
Before you go too far, I would put all your tools in the back of the shogun and see how far the back end lowers. They're not made for carrying a lot of weight, especially if you have it hanging behind the axle. You might need something like suggested to slide the boxes as far forward when driving
id give up mate knowing what weight you can carry isn't a high priority
 

joe soapy

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devon
Also with heavy boxes give some thought to holding them secure in case of a sudden stop.
I got assulted by a 20 ton jack and some breaker bars when i turned my diahatsu over, and an acquaintance got badly injured by a motor bike he was carrying in his transit,
He was well peed off, had spent the week hammering his Norton round the isle of Man without a scratch then it tried to kill him in his van on the way home:ROFLMAO:
 

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