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Posted by Daniel Evans on 03-25-2012 02:49 PM:

Over the rail summer boxes

Thinking of building an over the rail summer box. Looking for some ideas. Anyone have any pics please post here. Thanks

Posted by plentyofpossum on 03-27-2012 03:34 PM:

Lots of pics on big game houndsmen

Posted by Daniel Evans on 03-27-2012 03:57 PM:

Ok thanks

Posted by walker1978 on 03-27-2012 07:38 PM:

i have just started to build a new 3 dog over the rail box. its not just a summer box i will use it all the time. when i get some pics i will show them to you.i am gonna put plastic dimond plate on the out side to keep the weight down. should have around 250$ in the hole box.

Posted by Daniel Evans on 03-27-2012 10:59 PM:

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Originally posted by walker1978
i have just started to build a new 3 dog over the rail box. its not just a summer box i will use it all the time. when i get some pics i will show them to you.i am gonna put plastic dimond plate on the out side to keep the weight down. should have around 250$ in the hole box.

sounds good. I have a diamond deluxe box now I am just thinking about building a nice summer box in the future

Posted by RedMan on 04-12-2012 02:43 PM:

Its not an over the rail box but its just something I threw together out of some scrap lumber and left over horse panels from my kennels in a couple hrs time. Definately not the least bit fancy or top of the line but it sure keeps the dogs a lot cooler on the warm nights. Its fairly heavy too, but I also made a stand that is tailgate high that has conveyor rollers on it so it just slides on and off when needed so now the weight isnt a concern.

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Posted by yrphunter on 04-12-2012 04:03 PM:

thats a great design i may just have to build somthing like that.

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Posted by matt2 on 04-12-2012 06:41 PM:

Can you explain what an over the rail dogbox is? Thanks.

Posted by Daniel Evans on 04-12-2012 06:42 PM:

The top of the dogbox sits on top of the bed rails of your truck.

Posted by matt2 on 04-12-2012 06:54 PM:

Got it thanks!

Posted by old ben on 04-12-2012 09:20 PM:

iam buliding one i will try to post some pictures no wood all alum.i know what it should look like buttttttt lol

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Posted by old ben on 04-12-2012 09:21 PM:

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Originally posted by RedMan
Its not an over the rail box but its just something I threw together out of some scrap lumber and left over horse panels from my kennels in a couple hrs time. Definately not the least bit fancy or top of the line but it sure keeps the dogs a lot cooler on the warm nights. Its fairly heavy too, but I also made a stand that is tailgate high that has conveyor rollers on it so it just slides on and off when needed so now the weight isnt a concern.

cool great job

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Posted by l.lyle on 04-13-2012 06:30 AM:

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Originally posted by Daniel Evans
The top of the dogbox sits on top of the bed rails of your truck.

I can use mine year round around here. Its mostly 1/2" angle iron fame for two compartments covered with expanded metal. It is only long enough to go to the back end of the wheel wells, leaving enough room for a cooler between it and the toolbox. Easily hauls 8 dogs though. Where the tailgate latches is altogether about 4 inches narrower than the rails, which means once I slide it almost in I have to pick up the door end of the box and drop it behind the corners of the bed. Z-71 for example. But that also means the box can't slide out.There is about a three inch gap above the rails to the box top. That is because I have tall dogs and don't want them having to crouch on the ride or get beat on the shoulders on rough roads. They need to stand at ease for a ride. Can you imagine how tired you would get half squating for an hour? I don't use bedding so they normally stand if I'm on rough roads. That 3 inch gap I might cover up so they can't see me when I head for a tree that makes them want to bark and I'll beat the hide off a dog for barking in my box. The top is covered in alluminum thich enough to stand on salvaged off a sign. looks like tongue in grove 4"wide wood. Non-the -less, What I like best about it is the grill I made that covers the whole box top. It is stainless steel. got two round holes and small burners for coffee pot and catfish stew and the rest is like a table at a Japoneese Steak House, Or I recon a Huddle House if you like them better. I go the Japoneese route myself LOL. Big oblong tobacco burner under that part.

Anyway , a box tall enough for a hound to ride comfortable will be tall enough to just use the side mirrors. The rearview mirror won't hardly work. The first box I built was out of plywood , just a box, not a rail box, found out I had to chain it in to keep it from sliding out. Found that out the hard way. Also too short and beat the hair off the dogs head and shoulders. So I built one tall enough to where I cut the holes high enough to use the rearview mirror. I came riding up to the coondog convention and a fellow asked me , "What you got in that goatbox son?''

Posted by l.lyle on 04-13-2012 07:21 AM:

I built two that got stolen. They must have liked them. Fishin on Sunday was my sin. At the boat landing. Also stole the wiskey out of my tool box but left the tools. It takes a lowrent SOB to take a man's wiskey on a Sunday when he can't get any more. I caught one of them. I'll tell you about that on the next installment.

Old Ben, This piece of crap looking expanded wire thing I got, If it ever gets gone or wears out, I will go back to aluminum myself. But for a summertime box it won't be sheet aluminum. The best stuff I have found and I still have enough left to make one more is Hog Parlor Pannels from a Farrow to Finnish operation. Sometimes those sows break the hinges off a pannel and they replace the whole door. Now that is some more good heavey duty stuff. You can take those door pannels which are like jail bars with a 2-3 inch gap and reciprocal saw them like you want and screw them together with self starting screws and Wallah! you got a box. Then , if you don't have a heliarch welder , It's already made up and won't cost an aluminum welder $20 to weld it up solid. Then My advise would be put a half rotten sheet of plywood on for a top. My mistake was I used Diamond plated stainless steel , shined like a jewel and that is what catches the Cracker thiefs eye. LOL

I'll tell ya'll how to rig a can of automotive spray adhesiive in the toolbox to spray in a noaccouts thiefs eyes on the next installment. "Don't blink" MFer is what i said just before I put his lights out LOL.

Posted by skeets on 04-13-2012 09:36 AM:

well i got a dox box but i aint used it in years, i open the door and they will get in unless they wanna ride in the back lol. i live at the bottom of a mountain were i hunt at and can be in one of my hunting spot in a couple of mintues.

Posted by RedMan on 04-14-2012 12:43 AM:

I did see one a while back in a nissan that had no back (open frame), it slid up to the toobox and no sides other than the 6" or so that set on the bed rail and a brace from front to rear framework that ran over the wheel wells. Basically a diamond plate top, divider, and 2 doors that set in the bed and the rear frame work would keep it from sliding off with tailgate down. Looked like it either had j-hooks or lag bolts to keep it from being picked up but I couldnt really tell. I was being discreetly nosey I guess you could say. Didnt look half bad best I remember.

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