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Nice man.

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

I gotta tell you...I don't normally tell people how good their rig is...

Mostly I'm full of B.S. and have never been off road in my life...Just chase old ladies in the mall parking lots...its lots of fun to do...

BUT

you have a NICE RIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RYD

[nugget]

Originally Posted by RubHer Yellow Ducky

I gotta tell you...I don't normally tell people how good their rig is...

Mostly I'm full of B.S. and have never been off road in my life...Just chase old ladies in the mall parking lots...its lots of fun to do...

BUT

you have a NICE RIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RYD

MAte you can not BS a BS'er so I take your comments as the ultimate compliment. Give those old ladies hell...

[nugget]

Thanks for the nice comments guys. My wife and really enjoy camping and touring so that was the brief in setting up the rig. The first thing I did was to build and instal a cargo barrier to protect us from all the stuff in the back incase of an accident.



Then I built a set of drawers which would hold our food and cooking gear etc plus allow room for our Engel 40L fridge. I took out the rear seats and built a frame which bolts to the original tie downs in the cargo area plus picks up on a couple of the bolts from the rear seats.



Next was the frame of the drawers..





This is actually in 2 halves so I can get it in and out, and the 2 halves bolt together. One side is the drawers section and I had the drawer carcas folded at a local metal shop.





Covered it all and bingo..one set of drawers for a H3

[nugget]

The bottom drawer is a cooking drawer and we use a little butane cooker





This was before we got the roll out awnings at the side and rear but this was a wet weekned where ai just rigged a tarp and we cooked tea.



I also have 14.5 gallon water tamk with a little pump in so we have running water..



This is the area between the cargo barrier and the back of the drawers systen where I have the water tank and also where we keep our clothes bags, camping gear.."Aussie Swag"...plus tool kit, spares etc etc



Thats the swag on the top shelf



And it rolls out like this



Depending on how long we are staying and the weather we either sleep in this as it is, or for longer stays we have alittle dome tent and we roll out the swag inside the tent.

Becasue the Engel was a bit shorter than the drawers, I had a little area where I decided to create an electrical board to protect the power supply for the fridge, water pump, 12v lights and 500W inverter. Works really well as the door stops things falling against it. Since this picture was taken I have also mounted our dual battery there as well. Every things runs off the dual battery so we don not flatten the main battery when we are away..not fun having a flat battery in the middle of now where!

[fourfourto]

Sweet setup


I think i seen it posted at the X forum

[nugget]

Thanks fourfourto...yep, I post on x as well..not sure if I ever posted these there though..This is a video on how the drawers work.

Haven't posted a video link here before so I hope it works!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHvO_2S_Mk